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Let us maintain your website

As your website grows, technology also changes. Plugins, themes, and the core will need updates. These updates are required to enhance security, fix bugs, and even add additional features on occasion.

You can take care of the maintenance yourself, or choose from our Plans below. We can also customize a plan that best suits your needs. If you reach your maintenance limit, we'll let you know so you can decide if you'd like to adjust your plan.

The purpose of our plans is to not only keep your site as secure as possible, but our plans are designed to provide a cost savings to our regular hourly web design rate (Savings are listed below).

DOMAIN HOSTING

This is your website's main URL. Eg, "bluemonster.ca." We recommend purchasing a domain from a well-known domain registrar. Keep your domain short and simple.

WEBSITE HOSTING

Where the files and database (these make up your website) are hosted. We offer plans at competitive rates. See below for more information.

EMAIL HOSTING

Look pro with a domain email address. An example is "info@yourdomain.com." We recommend purchasing a plan through your domain registrar.

How it works:

Within the last 7 business days of each of your maintenance months, we:
  • backup your site
  • perform available plugin, theme, and core updates
  • check security
  • email you a report

The maintenance listed above is a priority for security, and will be done on each of your maintenance months. If you have additional work, we can do this at any time during the month. We can even roll work over to the following maintenance month as long as it's within your term.

Maintenance items may be evaluated on a case by case basis. Below are some items that can be included in your plan.

Maintenance CAN INCLUDE:

• Text revisions
• Image replacement
• Slide replacement
• Main/Header Logo replacement
• Site or Favicon Logo replacement
• Font changes
• Colour changes
• Meta Data
• Hyperlinks, Mailto's or Calls
• PDF updates
• Video replacements
• Plugin search and installation
• Plugin configuration
• Copyright
• APIs
• Update license
• SEO
• Website and web hosting support
• Business search engine assistance (Google, Bing, Apple)
• Update software (themes, plugins, core)*
• Security check*
• Email report after maintenance*

*Completed automatically at the end of each maintenance month

Maintenance DOES NOT INCLUDE:

• New and re-skinned website design and development
• Layout revisions / redesigns
• Image manipulation and edits
• Stock photo searches or purchases
• Photography
• Host transfers
• SSL Certificates
• Logos or branding
• Graphic Design
• e-Commerce
• Anything else not listed as “included”

WEBSITE MAINTENANCE PLANS

Purchase a 1 year Website Maintenance Plan and SAVE up to $667 in annual maintenance costs.
All plans include "Design & Host Plan" eligibilty — saving you an additional $20/year in Website Hosting!

Semi-Annual

$18

Per Month


  • Up to 1 hour of maintenance during first half of term, and again at end of term

  • 2 manual site backups*

  • annual renewal

  • security overview**

  • tie in with hosting renewal date for one easy payment per year

    SAVE $50+/yr!

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Blocks

$23

Per Month


  • Up to 1 hour of maintenance per each 4 month block
    (3 maintenance sets per term)

  • 3 manual site backups*

  • annual renewal

  • security overview**

  • tie in with hosting renewal date for one easy payment per year

    SAVE $140+/yr!

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Bi-Monthly

$45

Per Month


  • Up to 1 hour of maintenance every other month (begins in renewal month)

  • 6 manual site backups*

  • annual renewal

  • security overview**

  • tie in with hosting renewal date for one easy payment per year

    SAVE $270/yr!

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High Maintenance

$199

Per Month


  • Up to 2 hours of maintenance each month

  • automatic monthly site backups*

  • annual renewal

  • security overview**

  • copyright update at beginning of year

  • tie in with hosting renewal date for one easy payment per year

    SAVE $660+/yr!

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Quick Check REPORT (BETA)

$11

/mo

SEMI-ANNUAL EMAILED REPORT OF UPDATES NEEDED, SPAM OR SECURITY CONCERNS

  • + $125 one-time fee for initial set up which also includes (one time only):
    - available updates
    - available spam comment removal
    - 1 manual backup (if applicable)

  • Update, Spam and Security Report

  • Annual Renewal

  • Tie in with hosting renewal date for one easy payment per year

Choose

Bi-Monthly

$60

/mo

UP TO 1 HOUR OF MAINTENANCE EVERY OTHER MONTH
(BEGINS IN RENEWAL MONTH)

  • 6 Site Backups*

  • Annual Renewal

  • Security Overview**

  • Design & Host Plan Eligibilty

  • Tie in with hosting renewal date for one easy payment per year

Choose

Monthly

$100

/mo

UP TO 1 HOUR OF MAINTENANCE EACH MONTH

  • Automatic Monthly Site Backups*

  • Annual Renewal

  • Security Overview**

  • Design & Host Plan Eligibilty

  • Copyright update at beginning of year

  • Tie in with hosting renewal date for one easy payment per year

Choose

Monthly+

$199

/mo

UP TO 2 HOURS OF MAINTENANCE EACH MONTH

  • Automatic Monthly Site Backups*

  • Annual Renewal

  • Security Overview**

  • Design & Host Plan Eligibilty

  • Copyright update at beginning of year

  • Tie in with hosting renewal date for one easy payment per year

Choose
Overage

What if I go over my time each month?

Overage is billed at our regular, hourly website design rate. We will let you know when you’ve reached your monthly time limit and you can then decide upon the following options:

  • To increase your plan
  • To save any remaining revisions for the following month
  • To have the remainder of your maintenance performed at our regular website design rate
  • To fast forward the following month’s maintenance time

Website backups

Your entire website, and the time you spend updating your content, is an investment. It’s worth ensuring that if something happens, you have recent files that can be used to restore all of your hard work. Backups are something that you don’t want to be without. We can perform manual backups – just give us a shout (especially recommended if you’re about to perform WordPress updates), and automated backups. We retain your files on our server until a new backup overwrites it.

Manual Backups:* $25 each. Performed upon request.
Automatic Backups:* $55/year. Tie in with your Hosting and Website Maintenance Plan for one easy payment.

Terms & Conditions

  • Taxes are additional
  • Website Maintenance Plans, Backups, and Hosting are non-refundable. Unused time does not roll over to the following month or year
  • There are no guarantees or warranties that plugin, theme, server, or WordPress issues or conflicts will not arise during Maintenance. Blue Monster Creative will do its best to repair conflicts and solve issues as efficiently as possible. Most times, issues can be fixed within the Maintenance Plan time; however, if further time (or cost) is needed, you will be notified that additional costs may occur.
* 2 backups per website are stored on our server. Oldest backup is overwritten with each new backup.
** Maintenance Plans do not include website monitoring.