The basic website care plan is the entry level of our WordPress care plans, designed for the author site that mostly sits still. You have a home page, a few book pages, a newsletter form and a steady trickle of visitors. You do not need a monthly edit allowance or development hours. You do need someone to apply updates, keep a backup ready and notice when the site goes down.
Basic Website Care Plan · from $99 a month
Basic Website Care Plan that covers the essentials so that your site stays up
Basic website care plan is the entry plan that keeps a WordPress site safe, with weekly updates, daily backups and security and uptime monitoring, at the lowest monthly price. A named specialist looks after your basic website care plan every month, with the work listed in advance, a short report and no long contract, all at a fixed monthly price. Choose a plan to see what basic website care plan costs for your own book.
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Most basic website care plan plans start within 2 working days.
- Weekly updates
- Daily backups
- Security and uptime monitoring
Key facts
- $99Per month for the basic website care plan entry plan, with no contract
- 1 dayTypical time for onboarding to begin under your basic website care plan
- CancelAny time, with no fee, from the plan you choose with your basic website care plan
Overview
What a basic website care plan actually involves
That is exactly what the plan covers. Every week we update WordPress core, your theme and your plugins, and we check the site after each round. Every day a full backup is saved to storage that is separate from your host, and we have tested a restore so that we know it works. Around the clock, monitoring watches for downtime and security problems and alerts a person. It is affordable website maintenance with a clear scope and a fixed monthly price.
Because the plan is simple, it is easy to understand. You are not paying for hours that you will not use, and you are not locked into a long contract. If the site grows and you need edits, speed work or development time, you move up to the standard or premium plan, and your accounts, files and logins stay where they were.
This entry level website care plan is affordable website maintenance services at its simplest, and we are an affordable website maintenance company for authors. It covers the WordPress website monthly maintenance cost most authors expect, with cheap WordPress maintenance monthly and WordPress updates and backups service included, plus a website backups and security monthly plan.
Why it matters
Why a basic website care plan matters
It is the minimum that every site needs
Updates, backups and monitoring prevent most website disasters, and the basic plan covers all three with a named specialist behind them. It gives a quiet author site the protection it needs at the lowest monthly price we offer.
It costs less than one emergency
Repairing a hacked or broken site often costs more than a full year of basic care, and the site stays offline while the repair is done. Paying a small amount every month removes the chance of a large, urgent bill.
It is simple to understand and easy to budget
You know exactly what you receive each month, so you can judge whether it is worth keeping. There are no hours to track, no hidden extras and no surprises on the invoice.
Basic website care plan
Affordable maintenance for the essentials
The basic plan is affordable website maintenance for authors who need the essentials and little else. We apply updates each week, keep daily backups and watch your site for downtime and security problems, and we fix what breaks when an update goes wrong.
Basic website maintenance cost is a fixed monthly fee, and a simple website maintenance cost is lower than hiring a developer by the hour. The plan is a WordPress monthly maintenance package with updates and backups, and it is a good entry-level website care plan for a brochure site, a book page site or a portfolio.
If you want more, you can move to the standard or premium plan at any time. Basic WordPress maintenance plan work does not include content edits, which are part of the higher plans, and extra edits can be added if you need them.
- Weekly updates with a check after each
- Daily backups and a tested restore
- Security and uptime monitoring with alerts
Choose the right plan
The first decision in a basic website care plan
The basic plan on a simple author site
A site of a handful of pages with a newsletter form and book links needs little beyond updates and backups. The basic plan gives it exactly that, with a specialist behind it if something breaks.
The basic plan as a first step
Many authors begin on basic to see how the routine works, then move to standard when they want monthly edits and speed work. Changing plans takes a message and costs nothing extra.
Specification
What your basic website care plan covers, task by task
These are the decisions we make on every basic website care plan job, and the reason for each one.
Task
How we do it
Why it matters
Weekly tested updates
WordPress core, theme and plugins are updated every week in a fixed order, and afterwards the home page, a book page and every form are opened and tested on desktop and phone.
Most hacked WordPress sites were running software with a flaw that had already been patched, so weekly updates close those gaps, and the testing stops an update from breaking something you rely on.
Daily off-site backups
A full backup of files and database is taken daily, kept for a rolling window of recent days and stored in an account separate from the host that serves your site.
A recent backup limits any loss to about a day of changes, and keeping it away from the host means a single account problem cannot erase both the site and its safety copy.
A restore we have actually tested
A backup is restored onto a private copy at setup and at regular intervals, then checked page by page, with the time the recovery took written down.
It proves the backup is usable, and it gives you a realistic recovery time before you need one in an emergency rather than a guess during one.
Uptime and security monitoring
Your site is requested every few minutes from outside the host, with scans for malware and warnings before the SSL certificate expires, and every alert goes to a person.
Fast detection shortens any outage, and a warning about an expiring certificate prevents the browser security page that frightens readers away from a perfectly healthy site.
A clear, maintenance-only scope
Maintenance only: updates, backups, restore tests, monitoring, security checks and support. Content edits, speed work and development are not part of this plan.
A narrow, honest scope keeps the monthly price low and fair, and you can always add a one-off job or move to a higher plan when the site needs more.
Opening audit of the site
A one-time review at the start covering hosting, PHP version, theme, plugins, user accounts, backups and settings, with a written list of findings and recommendations.
You begin with a clear picture of the site as it stands, and every later improvement can be measured against a recorded starting point.
See what it costs
See the price of your basic website care plan in a minute
Pick a package to see what basic website care plan costs for your own book, with the delivery estimate and extras shown before you decide.
Build my priceProcess
How a basic website care plan runs month by month
Audit
We review your site, plugins, users and hosting, fix anything urgent and record the findings, so that every later report has a starting point to compare with.
Week one
Setup
We turn on daily off-site backups and monitoring and restore a backup to a private copy to prove it works before we rely on it.
Week one
Bring current
We update core, theme and plugins in a careful order and flag abandoned plugins for replacement, with the key pages checked after each step.
Weeks one and two
Weekly updates
We apply updates and check the site each week, confirming that the backup ran and that no alerts were missed.
Every week
Monthly summary
You receive a short written note of the work done and any recommendation, so you can see that the plan is working.
Every month
Review
Every few months we check whether the basic plan still fits and tell you honestly if a higher plan would serve the site better.
Every quarter
Before and after
Unmaintained and cared for
With your basic website care plan, the same books or the same site, first with nobody looking after it and then with a plan. The content is the same, and only the second stays healthy in this basic website care plan order.
123Before
- 1A site with no maintenance
- 2No backup
- 3Downtime that nobody notices
123After
- 1Updates every week
- 2A backup every day
- 3An alert when the site is down
- 3problems found in the first review
- 3fixes checked in the final review
- 1named specialist owning every fix
- Fixedprice confirmed in the calculator before you order
Safety
The site is kept current.
Recovery
A backup is ready.
Awareness
You know when it is down.
Pricing calculator
Build your basic website care plan price
The Basic website care plan is for sites that need to stay up to date and protected without much change: weekly updates, daily backups and someone watching for trouble. Tell us how many sites, how fast you need us to respond and how much reporting you want, and the fixed price builds below.
Beyond our online packages? Let us quote it properly.
More than six sites or a site with custom code is priced individually so nothing is missed. Send us the details and a specialist replies with a fixed monthly price and a start date.
On this basic website care plan job, the plan covers maintenance as described. Hosting, domains and premium plugin licences are not included.
Price guide
Basic Website Care Plan cost at a glance
The table shows the cost of basic website care plan for each package, with the base price, delivery time and the kind of job that fits. The calculator adds extras to your basic website care plan for an exact total.
Package
Base price
Standard delivery
Typical book
Essentials
$99
1-2 working days
Essentials
Growth
$199
1-2 working days
Growth
Full support
$349
1-2 working days
Full support
More than six websites
Custom quote
Agreed with your quote
More than six websites
Comparison
Basic Website Care Plan compared with the alternatives
What you compare
Doing it all yourself
The basic website care plan
Updates
Applied when you remember, which is often months late and rarely tested
Applied every week in a set order, tested on key pages and written into a log
Backups
Whatever the host offers, usually in the same place and never restored
Daily, kept off-site in a separate account and proved by a tested restore
Monitoring
None, so the first sign of trouble is a message from a reader
Uptime, certificate and security alerts that go straight to a named person
Cost
Your time, plus the risk of a large and urgent repair bill
A low, fixed monthly fee that is usually smaller than one emergency repair
Support
Forums, guesswork and a ticket queue at your hosting company
A named specialist who knows your site and replies to your message
Growth
Starts from scratch whenever you need more help
Move up to standard or premium at any time without changing your accounts or logins
Our standard
The standard we hold every basic website care plan to
Only what the site needs
We do not add hours, features or reports that you will not use, and we recommend the plan that matches your site and not the most expensive one.
Careful and tested
Every update is checked before we move on, and every backup is tested by restoring it, because assumptions are what cause expensive failures later.
Honest scope
We tell you plainly when a request needs more than the basic plan, quote the extra work and never start it without your approval.
Checklist
The pre-delivery checklist for a basic website care plan
Every item below is verified on your basic website care plan before it leaves our desk.
- CoreWordPress core is on a current version.
- PluginsEvery plugin is updated or flagged for replacement.
- ThemeThe active theme is updated and compatible.
- BackupsToday's backup is complete and stored off-site.
- RestoreA restore test has passed recently.
- UptimeMonitoring is active and alerts are working.
- SecurityScans are clean and login limits are on.
- FormsContact and newsletter forms deliver correctly.
- NotesAny recommendation for a higher plan is explained.
How we work
How we approach your basic website care plan
Start with the essentials
Updates, backups and monitoring are the foundation of a healthy site. We make sure that foundation is solid before anything else is added, because everything else depends on it.
Do not pay for what you will not use
If your site does not need monthly edits or development hours, the basic plan is the honest answer, and we will say so even when a bigger plan would earn us more.
Know when to step up
If you are publishing often, selling direct or changing the site monthly, the standard plan will serve you better, and moving up costs nothing extra beyond the new fee.
Client reviews
What authors say about our basic website care plan
Verified reviews from authors who used our basic website care plan service.
The website reflects the quality of my coaching work and the seriousness of my brand. The blog setup is easy to manage and the book landing page converts well. I am proud to share it with everyone I meet.
The website positions me as an authority in my field without feeling stiff or corporate. The testimonials section, media page, and book overview all build credibility effectively. Exactly what a nonfiction author needs.
The dark, atmospheric design matches the tone of my crime novels without feeling clichéd. New readers understand the genre and mood of my work immediately from the homepage. My ebook sales from website referrals increased by 60%.
Good website design overall. The mobile experience is excellent. I requested a few content changes after delivery which were handled efficiently. My reader newsletter opt-ins have increased noticeably since launch.
The website feels faith-centred without being off-putting to first-time visitors. The devotional resource section, speaking ministry page, and book store all reflect the purpose of my work clearly and respectfully.
The newsletter integration and reader magnet landing page were set up exactly right from day one. My opt-in rate from organic website visitors is consistently above 15%. The design and the copy flow work together seamlessly.
My author website now functions as a complete lead generation platform. The speaking page, media kit, and book sales funnel all work together seamlessly. I have received four speaking enquiries in the first month.
My website needed to reflect both the literary and the speculative elements of my work. The design found exactly the right tone. My publisher commented that it looked more professional than most traditionally published author sites.
The tone of the design perfectly matched the warmth and humour of my books. Readers feel welcomed from the first page. My engagement metrics improved significantly within the first two weeks of the new site going live.
My author website for children's books needed to be welcoming for both parents and young readers. The colourful, engaging design works perfectly for both audiences. My school visits enquiries have also increased.
My speaking and consulting enquiries increased noticeably after the website launched. The professional design and clear service pages communicate exactly what I offer. A worthwhile investment in my author business.
Good website design that captures the right atmosphere for my genre. The book pages and series navigation work well. One imagery choice in the hero section was updated after my feedback. Final result is exactly right.
The world-building section of my website gives readers a proper introduction to my universe before they even open the first book. It is exactly what a fantasy series needs. Beautifully structured and genuinely immersive.
The website made my romance series feel like a real reader destination. The book pages, series tropes, and signup sections finally work together. Readers stay longer and my newsletter list grew significantly after launch.
My nonfiction cover needed to convey authority and accessibility at the same time. The design achieves both. The colour palette and typography feel credible and professional without being intimidating.
Historical fiction requires a formal, unhurried typography that feels appropriate to the period. The specialist understood this without me having to explain it at length. The result is elegant and exactly right.
My textbook had 200 footnotes, 45 tables, and a detailed index. Every element was formatted to academic publishing standards. My publisher accepted the files without requesting any corrections whatsoever.
Tight, clean, and exactly on brief. The chapter openers had the tension-driven feel the genre demands without being overdone. Upload to KDP was approved without a single correction requested.
FAQ
Basic Website Care Plan: questions answered
These are the questions authors ask most about basic website care plan, including scope, change and cost. If your question about the basic website care plan is missing, request a quote and a specialist will reply.
What is a basic website care plan?
It is the entry-level monthly plan for a WordPress site, covering weekly updates, daily backups and security and uptime monitoring.
How much does basic website maintenance cost?
The calculator on this page shows a fixed monthly price. Hosting and domain fees are billed by their providers with your basic website care plan.
What does a basic WordPress maintenance plan include?
Weekly updates, daily backups, a tested restore, security scans, uptime monitoring and an opening audit.
Is affordable website maintenance safe?
Yes. Low price comes from a narrow scope, not from cutting corners. We test every update and every restore.
Does the basic plan include edits?
No. Content edits, speed work and development hours are part of the standard and premium plans, though you can add extra edits when needed.
Can I upgrade later?
Yes. You can move to standard or premium at any time without changing your accounts.
Is there a contract?
No. The plan is billed monthly and can be paused or cancelled.
Do you update a site that has been neglected for years?
Yes. We start with an audit and bring it current carefully.
Which hosts do you work with?
Most WordPress hosts. We confirm yours in the audit.
What if an update breaks my site?
We roll back and fix it, and tell you what happened.
Do you keep the backups for me?
Yes. Backups are stored off-site and you can request a copy.
Can I cancel and keep my site?
Yes. The site and all accounts remain yours.
How much does basic website care plan cost?
The basic website care plan cost starts at $99 a month for the entry plan and rises to $349 a month for the premium plan. Basic website care plan services and basic website care plan cost depend on the plan and the extras, and the calculator shows the total.
Ready when you are
Ready to start your basic website care plan?
The basic plan keeps your site safe for the price of a few coffees a month. See your plan price in a minute, or choose a plan below on this basic website care plan project.
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- Revision rounds included
- One named specialist, brief to upload