Maintenance
I hate site maintenance, doing regular backups and upgrades. But I also would hate for anything to happen to someones site and they lose all of their content or their snazzy customized theme. I know that many or our clients don’t do regular backups and most of them would not even know how to attempt to do a full site backup.
But, it is really, really important to regularly backup and run the latest version of WordPress (which you cannot upgrade without doing complete backups of WordPress Files and The Database). If you aren’t backing up regularly, and the definition of how often depends on how you would feel if you lost the content from when your last backup was), you are basically engaging in unprotected blogging.
Although it is not my favorite work, we do it because we want you to be safe and have several maintenance packages available depending on your needs.
Stray Dog (Occasional) Maintenance
Our one time only backup and upgrade is $125.00 each time for existing clients and $150.00 for a new client .This does not include the cost to fix problems that might occur as a result of upgrading, For example, if one of your plugins does not work after the upgrade we would have to charge you our normal site work rates to fix the problem.
Working Dog (Regular) Monthly Maintenance
Our regular backup and upgrade maintenance is $55.00 per month if you pay for your Maintenance each and every month. We do a complete site backup each month. If you get on this maintenance package right away after we build or work on your site, then you can start paying 55.00 per month. Otherwise, to start up as a regular maintenance client it will be $125.00 for the first month and then it is 55.00 per month thereafter. This program puts you into our priority list for other work you need and gives you the preferred rate for additional site work needed.
You must have a Paypal account to sign up for recurring payments for Maintenance.
Social Animal ( Regular) Maintenance
If you are a regular social media management client, ( $400.00 per month and up) we are in your site each and every week while we are there, we keep it backed up and running the latest version of WordPress gratis.
