Website Maintenance Services
Website maintenance covers updates, security, backups, hosting, uptime monitoring, and support for a WordPress website. I, Vlad Tabaranu, provide it from Harborne for businesses in Birmingham and the West Midlands.
Free audit request
I review your website, structured data, and Google Business Profile within five working days.
Mon-Fri 09:30-17:30, contact@seo-dr-it.com
What is website maintenance?
Website maintenance is the recurring work that keeps a live website running after launch. For WordPress, it means updating core, themes, and plugins, keeping backups, hosting the site, and monitoring . I also maintain Joomla, Drupal, custom PHP, WooCommerce, Shopify, Magento, and BigCommerce websites.
The share of time a website responds to requests; uptime monitoring measures it with repeated automated requests.
When does a website need maintenance?
Website maintenance fixes five problems for small business websites:
What does website maintenance include?
Website maintenance combines six components, each tied to one risk.
Updates
I apply WordPress core, theme, and plugin updates. An update installs the vendor’s corrected code, which closes faults the vendor has already documented and keeps themes and plugins compatible with WordPress core.
Security
I handle security for the website, remove malware, and recover hacked sites by restoring clean backups. Security work limits the routes into a site, because each outdated component and each unneeded login is a separate point of entry.
Backups
I keep backups of the website. A backup stores a dated copy of files and database, so a site can return to its last good state after a failed update.
Hosting
Hosting provides the server that delivers your pages. I manage hosting, SSL certificates, and third-party add-ins with the site, so one person answers for all of them when a fault appears.
Uptime monitoring
A monitor requests the site at set intervals, so you learn of an outage from a failed response and not from a customer complaint.
Support
Support sends each question to the person who maintains the site, so you describe a fault once, with no handover.
Which standards does website maintenance follow?
I maintain a website to the standards I build to: Google Search Essentials and thresholds. I audit with PirateSERP and Google Search Console.
Google’s metrics for loading speed, responsiveness, and visual stability.
UK GDPR Article 32 asks for the ability to restore access to personal data after a technical incident; backups provide that ability. I do not guarantee rankings or a Core Web Vitals score.
How does website maintenance compare with the alternatives?
Three options keep a website current, and they differ in who acts and when.
| Option | Who acts | When | Covers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Website maintenance | Vlad Tabaranu | As the written plan states | Updates, security, backups, hosting, uptime monitoring, support |
| Repair after a fault | A developer you hire per job | After the fault appears | The fault you report |
| You | When you choose to | What you know to check |
Upkeep you perform yourself, with no written scope, schedule, or monitor.
Where can you see my results?
Across more than 20 client accounts over the past 18 months, measurable gains appear within 90 days in search impressions, website clicks, visits, rankings, and Google Business Profile actions including calls, messages and direction requests. Individual results vary by market and starting position; the dated per-client evidence is on the results page.
How do you start?
You request the free audit through the form or on 07405 149750; that booking request starts website maintenance.
- Free audit. Within five working days of your request.
- Audit call. About twenty minutes.
- Written plan. Within five working days of the call, with scope and price in writing.
- Work starts. Within five working days of approval.
- Monthly report. Within five working days of each month end.
I work from Harborne for businesses in Birmingham and the , and remotely across the United Kingdom.
One of England’s nine official regions (Wikidata Q48038).
Website maintenance is included in every plan: Starter £499, Advanced £699, and Pro £999 (pricing and setup fees). I confirm the scope in writing before work begins.
Questions about website maintenance
Can you guarantee my website never goes down?
No. Monitoring detects an outage; it does not prevent one, because hosting, plugins, and third-party services can fail.
What are the risks?
An update can conflict with a theme or plugin. Backups return the site to its last good state, and the written plan states scope and price before work begins.
Who does the work?
I do: Vlad Tabaranu, founder of Dr IT SEO Services since 2010. I bring in a trusted specialist partner when a job needs it.
What do you need from me?
Access to the accounts that manage the service: Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Business Profile manager access, and your website platform admin, or a developer who applies the changes.