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Cloud, Data & Reliability

Websites decay without attention

Dependencies age, plugins break, certificates expire, forms silently stop delivering. Most site failures are the result of neglect rather than bad luck.
Engagement
Monthly care plan
Typical timeline
1 week to onboard
Delivered across
All 50 US states

Overview

The most common way a website fails is not a dramatic outage. It is a contact form that stopped sending three weeks ago and nobody noticed, a checkout that broke for Safari users, a certificate that expired on a Saturday, or a plugin vulnerability being actively exploited two months after the patch shipped.

Maintenance plans exist to prevent that. Updates applied on a schedule and tested on staging first. Monitoring on uptime, forms, checkout and performance so failures are detected rather than reported by customers. Backups verified. Security patches assessed by severity rather than applied blindly.

We include improvement hours as standard, because a site that only receives defensive maintenance stagnates. Those hours go to content changes, small features, performance work and whatever the analytics suggest is worth fixing.

Uptime, forms and checkout, not just the homepage
MonitoredUptime, forms and checkout, not just the homepage
Updates tested before production
StagedUpdates tested before production
Improvement hours every month
IncludedImprovement hours every month

Business benefits

What website maintenance changes for you

The reasons this work earns its budget, stated as outcomes rather than features.

Updates tested before production

Core, plugin and dependency updates applied to staging, verified, then promoted — never applied blind to a live site.

Monitoring beyond uptime

Form submissions, checkout flow, certificate expiry and performance watched, since those fail more often than the server.

Security assessed, not automated blindly

Vulnerability monitoring with severity assessment, so critical patches are expedited and low-risk ones batched.

Backups verified by restore

Off-site retention with periodic test restores. An unverified backup is not a backup.

Improvement time included

Monthly hours for content, small features and optimization, so the site improves rather than merely surviving.

A team that knows your site

The same engineers month to month, which makes diagnosis faster and prevents the same issue recurring.

Problems solved

If any of this sounds familiar

These are the situations clients describe in the first conversation, and what we do about each.

    Our contact form stopped working and nobody noticed for weeks.

    Automated form and transaction monitoring that submits test entries and alerts on failure within minutes.

    Updates broke the site last time, so we stopped doing them.

    Staged update process with testing and one-click rollback, which makes updating safe and therefore routine.

    The site was compromised through an outdated plugin.

    Vulnerability monitoring with prioritized patching, hardening, malware scanning and reduced attack surface.

    Small changes wait weeks for someone to be available.

    Included monthly hours with a defined turnaround, so routine requests are handled predictably.

Our process

How we deliver it

Each stage has a defined output, so you always know what you are getting and when.
  1. 01

    Onboarding audit

    Full review of the site's technical state, dependencies, security posture and existing backup arrangements.

  2. 02

    Baseline remediation

    Fix outstanding issues, establish staging, configure monitoring and set up verified backups.

  3. 03

    Scheduled maintenance

    Regular update cycles applied to staging, tested, then promoted with results documented.

  4. 04

    Monitoring and response

    Continuous monitoring with defined response times and incident reporting when something requires action.

  5. 05

    Improvement cycle

    Monthly hours applied to agreed priorities, with a short report on what changed and what we recommend next.

Technologies used

The tools behind the work

Chosen for maintainability and hiring depth rather than novelty. We will justify any choice on request, and we avoid technology that makes you dependent on us.

  • WordPress
  • Next.js
  • GitHub Actions
  • Cloudflare
  • UptimeRobot
  • Sentry
  • Lighthouse CI

Industries served

Where this work lands most often

Sector context changes what good looks like. These are the industries where we have delivered this service repeatedly.

Why Mova

What working with us on website maintenance is like

The same commitments apply to every engagement, regardless of size or service.

  • A defined first step

    We scope a fixed-price starting point so you can evaluate us on website maintenance before committing to a program.

  • Senior people, named

    The team you meet is the team that delivers. You will know exactly who is accountable.

  • You own the output

    Code, accounts, files and documentation are yours from day one, with no lock-in of any kind.

  • Measured, then reported

    We baseline before starting and report against it honestly — including the months that fall short.

Questions

Website Maintenance: common questions

The questions we are asked most about website maintenance, answered directly.

Updates, monitoring, backups, security management, uptime response and a monthly allocation of improvement hours. Plans scale by site complexity and how many hours you want available.

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Next step

Ready to talk about website maintenance?

Thirty minutes with someone who has delivered this work. We will tell you what it would take, roughly what it would cost, and whether Mova is the right fit.

No pitch deck. A 30-minute conversation about what you are trying to achieve.