01 · Website maintenance & management — London & Essex
Hosting, SSL, regular backups, security updates, uptime monitoring and content changes — handled for you by one Highams Park–based developer with 20+ years' experience. Fully managed website maintenance from £45/month with £0 setup, and full website management with monthly SEO from £300/month, for WordPress, Shopify and custom-coded sites across London, Essex and the UK.
Based in Highams Park (E4) — serving Walthamstow, Chingford, Woodford, Loughton, Epping and across London & Essex
Call now and you'll speak to the developer who'll actually fix it — no ticket queue. Recovery is included on managed plans; emergency fixes on other sites are quoted before any work starts.
A website is not a one-off purchase — it is a live system that needs hosting, security patches, backups and updates every month it exists. Most small businesses in London and Essex either pay an agency retainer that costs more than their accountant, or do it themselves until something breaks. This page explains exactly what proper maintenance includes, what it should cost, when full website management is worth the step up, and how my managed plans keep your site fast, secure and up to date from £45/month.
Last updated 16 July 2026
02 · Inside the plan
Fast, secure hosting included in the plan — no separate hosting bill.
Issued and renewed automatically, so the padlock never lapses.
Regular backups stored away from the server, ready to restore.
Patches applied as they are released, not months later.
If the site stops responding, I usually know before you do.
Email the new prices, photos or hours — the edit gets done.
Core Web Vitals watched so the site stays fast as it grows.
If a managed site goes down, getting it back up costs nothing extra.
03 · The ladder
Website maintenance is the technical upkeep: hosting, SSL, backups, security updates, uptime monitoring and small content changes. It keeps the site fast, secure and online. Website management is everything in maintenance plus the human layer — new content, SEO work and plain-English reporting — so the site doesn't just stay up, it improves month on month.
Here that's a simple ladder rather than two confusing labels: maintenance is the £45/month plan on this page, and full website management is Managed Growth at £300/month — the same maintenance with monthly SEO content and Google Business Profile care on top. The full comparison lives in my guide to website management vs website maintenance.
Step one
Technical upkeep, fully handled: hosting, SSL, backups, updates, monitoring and up to an hour of content changes. Right when you write your own content and mainly need the site kept secure and online.
See the planStep two
Everything in maintenance plus 8 hours of work every month: new content, SEO improvements and Google Business Profile care, with results reported in plain English. Right when the site should be winning work, not just staying up.
See Managed GrowthRunning WordPress? Both tiers cover it — my guide to WordPress website management services explains what full-service looks like on WordPress specifically.
04 · Plans and pricing
Two plans for ongoing care, one route for one-off problems. All come with a clear price before any work starts.
£45/month, £0 setup
Fully managed hosting, SSL, backups, updates and monitoring from £45/month — or step up to full website management with Managed Growth at £300/month: the same care plus monthly SEO content and Google Business Profile attention.
£300/month, £0 setup
Full website management: everything in Website Maintenance plus monthly SEO content, Google Business Profile care and competitor tracking to grow your leads.
Quotedin writing, before work starts
WordPress updates gone wrong, hacked sites, broken plugins, slow pages — diagnosed and fixed on WordPress, Shopify, React, or Laravel.
Need a whole new site instead? See Zero Upfront websites or Managed Growth with monthly SEO included.
Maintenance has a 6-month minimum for takeovers (12 months when I build the site free upfront), then rolls month-to-month. No VAT is added — I'm not VAT registered. Full details in the Website Maintenance terms and Bespoke Development terms.
05 · The market
Three ways UK small businesses handle maintenance, side by side:
| DIY | Agency retainer | Managed plan (this page) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | "£0" plus plugins & hosting | £149–£379+ published retainers; quote-only agencies charge more (July 2026 price check) | From £45, all-inclusive |
| Setup fee | £0 | Setup fees common | £0 |
| Your time | 5–6 hours/month, done properly | Low | Zero — email the change, it gets done |
| If the site goes down | You fix it | Major fixes often billed on top | Recovery included |
| Best for | Hobby sites | Large corporations | Small businesses & tradespeople |
Market figures from my UK website maintenance cost guide, where every price was verified on the provider's own website in July 2026.
06 · Read first
Want to understand the job before you hand it off — or do it yourself? Start here:
07 · Proof
Sitech Loos London has hired out portable toilets across London and the South East for over twenty years, serving names like the BBC, Travis Perkins and Jewson. I replaced their ageing WordPress brochure site with a fast, custom-coded build — growing it from one competing URL to 25+ indexed pages — and the site has been under my active management ever since: hosting, updates, monitoring, and new location and pricing pages shipping continuously.
Read the full case study
08 · Takeovers
WordPress, Shopify, React, Laravel or fully custom code — the platform your previous developer chose isn't a problem. Every takeover starts with a security and performance review, so you know exactly what state the site is in before it moves onto a regular update and backup schedule. And there's no lock-in: the site, its content and its domain stay yours.
Running WordPress? My guide to WordPress maintenance services in the UK covers the plugin-update treadmill and the static-conversion escape route in detail.
09 · Local patch
I'm based in Highams Park, London E4, and look after sites for small businesses and tradespeople across Highams Park, Walthamstow, Chingford, Woodford, Loughton, Epping and the rest of London and Essex — with remote maintenance available UK-wide.
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A full maintenance plan covers everything a live business website needs to stay fast, secure and up to date. On my managed plans that means hosting, an SSL certificate that renews itself, regular off-site backups, and security and software updates applied as they are released rather than months later. It also includes uptime monitoring, so if the site ever stops responding I usually know before you do, and concierge content changes — you email me the new prices, photos or opening hours, and I make the edit, with up to an hour of changes covered every month. There is no ticket portal and no per-change invoice for routine updates. Performance is part of maintenance too: I keep an eye on Core Web Vitals so the site stays quick as it grows. In short, you run the business, and the website simply keeps working in the background.
Fully managed website maintenance starts at £45 per month with £0 setup on my plans, and that price includes hosting, SSL, backups, updates, monitoring and routine content changes. Across the wider UK market, published plans ran £29 to £379 per month in my July 2026 price check, with most small-business plans between £40 and £99 and agency retainers with development hours at £149 to £379 — often with scope-creep fees on top when something significant breaks. The DIY route looks free but costs your own time: five to six hours a month on updates, backups and troubleshooting done properly, plus the risk of getting a security patch wrong. One-off fixes outside a plan are quoted in writing before any work starts, so you always know the cost. My UK maintenance cost guide breaks the whole market down in detail.
Yes — most sites I take over were built by someone else. Takeovers start with a security and performance review: I check hosting, software versions, plugins, backups and page speed, and give you a plain-English summary of anything risky before touching the live site. From there the site moves onto a regular update and backup schedule like any other managed site. I work across WordPress, Shopify, React and Laravel, as well as fully custom-coded sites, so the platform your previous developer chose is not a problem. If your current arrangement is with an agency, the handover usually just needs hosting and domain access — I deal with the technical transfer and visitors see no downtime. There is no lock-in at my end either: the site, its content and its domain stay yours, so if you ever want to move on, you can.
Uptime monitoring is included on every managed plan, so an outage is flagged within minutes and recovery starts straight away — often before the business owner has noticed anything is wrong. Getting the site back online is part of the service: on a managed plan there is no extra charge for recovery work, whether the cause is a failed update, an expired certificate, a hosting fault or something more serious like a hack. Regular off-site backups mean there is always a clean copy to restore from, so a rebuild-from-backup is a routine job rather than a crisis. If your site is down right now and I do not maintain it yet, call me on 07735 526 331 — emergency fixes on WordPress, Shopify and custom sites are quoted quickly, and diagnosis starts with the same monitoring and backup checks.
Yes. I am based in Highams Park, London E4, and most of the sites I look after belong to small businesses and tradespeople across East London and Essex — Walthamstow, Chingford, Woodford, Loughton and Epping are all local patch. Being nearby matters more than it might seem for maintenance: when something needs discussing, we can talk it through on the phone or in person, and I understand the local market your site is competing in. That said, maintenance is remote-friendly work — backups, updates, monitoring and content changes all happen online — so I also look after sites for businesses across the rest of the UK. Wherever you are based, you deal with one developer directly: the person answering the email is the person doing the work, with 20+ years of experience building and running sites for businesses like yours.
Maintenance is the technical upkeep — hosting, SSL, backups, security updates, uptime monitoring and small content changes — everything that keeps a site fast, secure and online. Management includes all of that and adds the human layer: new content, SEO work, analytics and a report that tells you what changed and why it matters. A quick test when comparing plans: if every deliverable is something you would only notice when it goes wrong, you are looking at maintenance; if the deliverables include things a customer would notice — new pages, better rankings, a monthly report — you are looking at management. On this site the two are a simple ladder: maintenance is £45 per month, and full website management is the Managed Growth plan at £300 per month, which is the same maintenance with monthly SEO content and Google Business Profile care on top.
A genuine website management plan covers six workstreams: content updates, software updates, security, SEO, analytics and reporting. In practice that means someone edits and adds pages, keeps the platform patched and backed up, watches for security issues, works on search visibility, reads the analytics and tells you each month what was done and what it achieved. Be careful when comparing providers, because plenty of UK plans sold as management are really maintenance-only — some explicitly exclude SEO and content work or price them as add-ons, so ask for the exclusions list before the features list. My Managed Growth plan is the full-management version of the plans on this page: eight hours of work every month across content, SEO and Google Business Profile care, on top of all the maintenance described here.
Published UK website management plans ran from £28 to £785+ per month in my July 2026 price check — a 28x spread under near-identical names, because a cheap management plan is usually maintenance-only while dearer plans include human hours for content and SEO. Hiring the role in-house costs far more: the average UK website manager salary is £40,811 (Indeed, June 2026). My pricing is published and simple: website maintenance is £45 per month, and full website management via Managed Growth is £300 per month, including monthly SEO content, Google Business Profile care and everything in maintenance. Whoever you compare, insist on a written list of what is included, what is excluded and how many hours you get — the label on the plan tells you almost nothing.
“Jamie rebuilt our Sitech Loos London website and it's already bringing in hire enquiries. He overhauled our Google Business Profile and handles all the SEO too — it just works. Highly recommended.”
“He was professional, easy to work with and always responded promptly throughout the project. The finished website gave us a strong online presence and has served us well. We saw an increase in traffic to the website, and our online sales grew as a result.”
“Jamie took our old very outdated non mobile friendly website and fully refreshed it to make use of modern technology and to bring it up to date with our multi faceted activities. We had a close liaison throughout the process and many tweaks to the finish but since then we have enjoyed continual support and equally importantly complimentary traffic to the site.”
“We're a luxury watch retailer based in Epping and have worked with Jamie for years — he's become the person we trust with everything technical. Our old setup used to struggle whenever we had a busy sale on, and he sorted the hosting so that's no longer a worry. The biggest difference has been the automation: our customer records, stock and invoicing all connect now, so we're not entering the same details in three places or chasing paperwork. He also built us a tool that helps our buying team value pieces much faster. He understands how our business actually runs, not just the tech side. Couldn't recommend him more.”
“Our emails at Nafas Wellness Studio in Woodford were going straight to spam. Jamie tracked down the DNS problem and fixed it properly, plus a few other tweaks along the way. It was quick, clear and easy. Highly recommend using his services.”
Tell me about your site — what it runs on and what's bugging you about it — and I'll come back with a plan and a clear price, usually within one working day.
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