So you’ve invested into a gorgeous, shiny new website – yay! Once it’s launched it’s important to ensure that your website continues to function properly without any downtime or issues so it can keep performing its role. To keep your site running smoothly it’s essential to make sure it’s kept up to date, optimised and on a good hosting plan.
What makes a good host?
When it comes to website hosting it’s essential that you choose a good host. There are lots of cheap hosting plans out there and while it can be tempting to save some money, this is one area where it’s worth paying just a little more. Cheap hosts use shared servers which can store up to thousands of websites, which has a huge impact on your website speed (not great for customers or SEO) and also website security. They also often charge extra for essential elements like backups and website restores, so plans aren’t as cheap as they initially seem.
Don’t want the hassle of looking after the technical side of your website?
We’ve got you covered! For all of our clients we offer both managed hosting, which includes our care plans, or standalone care plans for clients who are happy to host themselves. These plans are perfect for businesses who don’t have the budget for an in-house WordPress manager or the time and expertise to do it themselves.
What's Included?
Maintenance + Care Plan
FOR DESIGN CLIENTS: $60 + GST per month (paid yearly)
FOR NON-DESIGN CLIENTS: $71 + GST per month (paid yearly)*
Just like your computer and phone need regular updates to keep it running smoothly, your website does too. Our care plans also include access to our paid theme and plugin licenses, to save you on additional costs.
Our care plan includes:
- Monthly backups in multiple storage locations
- PHP, WordPress core, theme and plugin updates
- Checking for issues or errors after updates, and fixing if required
- Security checks
- Spam filtering
- Database cleaning and maintenance
- Ongoing image and media library optimisation
- Speed checks
- Access to our paid premium theme and plugin licenses (minimum approximate value for a standard site $270 AUD p/year)
- Access to our full premium license suite and any new additions as they’re available, if required (minimum total approximate value $1,400+ AUD p/year)
- 10% discount on hourly rate for website design and content updates
*Care plan support is only offered for selected websites built by external parties, where they have been built using similar tools. This is to ensure we can properly offer expert advice and support for these websites, and also offer the most value with our own licences. These sites will also incur an onboarding fee of $110 + GST, to allow us to properly check over the website for any issues and update for maximum performance where possible.
Website Hosting + Care Plan
$72 + GST per month (paid yearly)*
If you don’t want to worry about any of the technical side, then we offer our own managed hosting. Our hosting includes everything listed in the care plan above, plus hosting and hosting management.
We host on private Australian servers, with only up to 7 of our own client sites stored on each server, to ensure security and speed for each website.
Our hosting and care plan includes:
- Website hosting on a private Australian server
- Daily backups
- Additional monthly backups in multiple storage locations
- Elastic Email transaction email service (to ensure forms etc from your website are delivered without issue)
- SSL Certificate
- One free website restore per month, if required
- PHP, WordPress core, theme and plugin updates
- Checking for issues or errors after updates, and fixing if required
- Security checks
- Spam filtering
- Database cleaning and maintenance
- Ongoing image and media library optimisation
- Speed checks
- Access to our paid premium theme and plugin licenses (minimum approximate value for a standard site $270 AUD p/year)
- Access to our full premium license suite and any new additions as they’re available, if required (minimum total approximate value $1,400+ AUD p/year)
- 10% discount on hourly rate for website design and content updates
Ready to get started? Questions?
*Note: full hosting services are only for our website design clients. We are now taking on select clients for ongoing maintenance, with host management support when using our recommended host.
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