How much does website maintenance cost?

It depends on the site and what's included. Our care plans have published prices and include hosting; you'll find them on our pricing page.

Does a static website need maintenance?

Much less: there's no CMS or plugins to update. It still needs backups, a domain, a certificate, email, current content and someone checking that the form arrives.

What happens if I don't update WordPress?

Vulnerabilities in old versions are public, and there are programs crawling the internet looking for sites that haven't patched them. It's not if, it's when.

Yes, with this list and an hour or two a month. What people skip most is restoring test backups and reviewing security, which are exactly the ones that save you the day something breaks.

Website maintenance checklist: weekly to yearly tasks

It's the list we use to look after the sites we host on our care plans, adapted so anyone can follow it. Not every site needs everything: a static site with no CMS skips almost all the updates. What you tick is saved in this browser.

Every week

0 / 4 done

Backup taken and stored off the server A backup that lives on the same server as the site disappears with it.
Updates applied For the CMS (WordPress or another), plugins and theme. Security ones without waiting.
Contact form tested Send a test and check it arrives. A broken form doesn't warn you: customers simply stop showing up.
Automatic alert if the site goes down An uptime monitor that emails you before a customer notices.

Every month

0 / 6 done

Restore a backup to a test environment A backup that has never been restored isn't a backup: it's a hope.
Review Google Search Console Indexing errors, security issues and pages that stop showing up.
Check mobile speed With PageSpeed Insights. If it gets worse month over month, something changed.
Look for broken links Especially the ones pointing to your service and contact pages.
Review the content Hours, prices, staff, expired offers, past event dates.
Remove access nobody needs Accounts for people who no longer work with you, on the site and the hosting.

Every quarter

0 / 5 done

Security review Malware scan, strong passwords and two-step verification for anyone with admin access.
SSL certificate renewing automatically Since March 2026 certificates last 200 days at most (100 from March 2027), so manual renewal no longer works. Check that it renews itself and when it expires.
A calm look at analytics Where leads come from and which pages bring them, not just how many visits.
Basic accessibility Text contrast, alt text on images and a form that works with the keyboard.
Legal and cookie pages up to date Especially if you added a new analytics, chat or ads tool.

Every year

0 / 4 done

Domain renewal Auto-renew on, and a contact email someone actually reads. Losing the domain means losing the site and the email.
SPF, DKIM and DMARC email records Without them your emails are more likely to land in spam or be rejected. Since February 2024 Gmail and Yahoo require SPF or DKIM from every sender, and all three from bulk senders.
Hosting review Space, a supported PHP or runtime version, and whether the plan still makes sense.
Full website review Does it still describe what you do today? Missing services, pages that should go?

Your score

0 / 19

The link carries the boxes you have ticked: whoever opens it sees your list as it stands.

Send this checklist to whoever runs your website.

https://intervolutions.com/guides/website-maintenance-checklist/

Rather have us do it?

Our care plans take the technical side of this list off your hands (daily off-server backups, security updates, uptime monitoring, malware scanning, domain and certificate renewal) plus hosting, and the higher plans add regular reviews of speed and of what Google sees, plus content changes. Published prices and a person who answers. If you like, we'll first review your site for free.

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David Abellán

Co-founder · Engineering

Co-founder of Intervolutions. Architecture, code and infrastructure since 2010, with projects delivered in seven countries.

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