A website is like anything else you own: it needs a home, a lock on the door, and the occasional tune-up. Pick how much of that you'd like to never think about again — from set-and-forget hosting at $150/year to a plan that quietly grows your Google presence every month. No contracts, ever.
Optional, always — you own your site and can host anywhere
Nobody explains this part, so here it is in plain English. Every website on earth — including the big ones — needs four things to stay alive and useful:
Your website is a set of files, and they have to live on a computer that's on 24/7 so the world can visit. That's hosting — think of it as rent for your address on the internet.
The padlock in the browser bar, monitoring for trouble, and keeping bad actors out. Without it, browsers warn visitors away and Google quietly ranks you lower.
Safe copies of everything, kept somewhere else. If anything ever goes wrong, your site is restored instead of rebuilt. It's insurance you hope to never use.
Prices change, photos age, Google rewards sites that stay current. This one is optional — but it's the difference between a site that exists and a site that works.
The first three keep your site alive. The fourth makes it earn. Our plans are built around exactly that split.
We've inherited a lot of neglected websites over the years. The story is always the same — and it's always preventable:
The site works. Nobody's watching it, but nothing's broken yet. This phase is where "we don't need maintenance" gets decided.
The menu shows old prices. The "holiday hours" are from last year. A form breaks and nobody notices — leads just quietly stop.
An expired certificate throws up a "Not Secure" warning. Google notices staleness; rankings slip. Visitors notice too — 46% judge credibility on looks alone.
A lapsed domain, a hack, or a host failure — and without backups, the rebuild costs more than years of care would have. We get these calls weekly.
None of this happens on a care plan. That's the whole pitch, honestly.
Most agencies charge monthly retainers for babysitting fragile websites — published pricing runs $35–$500 a month just for upkeep, before any growth work. Our foundation plan is $150 a year, because our sites don't need babysitting. The plans below only go up from there if you want more handled.
One year with us costs less than one month at many agencies. Estimates reflect published 2026 industry maintenance pricing; your old invoices may vary.
Every plan is flat-priced, plain-English, and cancel-anytime. Start small, upgrade when business picks up, step down when it's steady — no contracts in any direction.
Every plan includes the ownership promise: your domain, files, and content are yours — leave anytime with everything and our blessing.
Because our own guides preach it: vague inclusions become invoices. Here's everything, spelled out.
| What you get | Care & Hosting | Care Plus | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fast hosting + SSL padlock | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Security & uptime monitoring | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Safe copies of your site | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Domain management & renewals | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Direct text-the-builder support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Monthly content updates | quoted fairly | 2 / month | 2 / month |
| Same-week priority turnaround | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google Business Profile upkeep + posts | — | — | ✓ |
| Review monitoring + drafted replies | — | — | ✓ |
| Monthly content improvement (SEO) | — | — | ✓ |
| Search Console monitoring | — | — | ✓ |
| Plain-English monthly report | — | — | ✓ |
| Price | $150/yr | $49/mo | $279/mo |
Need more than the boxes hold? That's what Custom is for — tell us how your business runs.
Honest recommendations only — most businesses genuinely belong on the cheapest plan, and this quiz will say so.
Answer for how your business actually runs today.
Because of how we build. Most websites run on platforms with plugins, databases, and constant updates — fragile machinery that breaks, gets hacked, and needs monthly babysitting. That's what maintenance retainers actually pay for.
Our sites are hand-built with clean, lightweight code: nothing to patch weekly, no plugin roulette, dramatically less to attack. Less imaginary labor to bill you for — so we simply don't.
Hosting with us is a convenience, never a leash. Want to leave? You get every file with our blessing — no exit fees, no 30-day dances, no hard feelings. It's your website. That's the whole point.
No. Care & Hosting at $150/year is a complete plan on its own — everything a healthy site needs to stay online, secure, and yours. The monthly plans exist for owners who also want changes or growth handled for them. Plenty of happy clients never go past $150.
Anytime, in either direction. Monthly plans are month-to-month, Care & Hosting is year-to-year, and there are no contracts or cancellation fees anywhere. Upgrade when business picks up, step down when it's steady, or leave with every file and our blessing.
The everyday stuff: price and menu changes, new photos, updated hours, a fresh testimonial, swapping text on a page — roughly anything we can turn around in under half an hour. Bigger jobs (a new page, redesigning a section) get a fair flat quote first, always. Updates don't roll over, but we're not stingy about the line.
The honest answer our SEO page gives everyone: signals compound over 3–6 months — profile activity, fresh reviews, improving content — and nobody can guarantee rankings (run from anyone who does). What you'll always see is the work: every month's report shows exactly what was done and what moved.
The $150 covers keeping your site online, secure, and healthy. Content changes are quoted fairly before any work happens — or handled automatically each month on Care Plus and Growth. Many $150 clients spend little or nothing on changes for years.
Never. You own your files and can take them to any host you like. Most clients stay because $150 a year with everything handled is hard to beat — but it's a choice, not a trap.
Domain management — renewals, DNS, settings — is handled on every plan, and the registration fee itself (typically $10–$20/year) stays in your name, because your domain should always belong to you. Business email (you@yourbusiness.com) is a separate service, usually Google Workspace at their standard rates — we'll happily set it up and connect it.
Because of how we build and how we work: hand-built sites with no fragile plugins to babysit, one experienced person instead of layers of account managers, and efficient modern workflows behind the scenes. Published agency care plans run $35–$500/mo and SEO retainers $300–$1,500/mo — we simply have less overhead to bill you for. The deliverables are real either way; you'll see them in your report.
From $150 a year to fully-managed growth — flat plans, no contracts, cancel anytime. Tell us how your business runs and we'll point you to the right one, honestly.
