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Care Plans
What should I pay to keep a website running?
Hosting alone runs about $5 to $50 a month; a managed care plan with edits and monitoring roughly $150 to $650; with SEO and content, $650 and up. Ours are $250, $650 and $1,200 CAD a month plus HST, month-to-month.
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What Is a Website Care Plan, and What's In It?
A website care plan is a monthly service in which someone is accountable for keeping your site online, secure, current and still delivering enquiries: hosting and DNS oversight, software and security updates, tested backups, uptime monitoring, a stated allowance of content edits, and regular checks that your forms still work.
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A typical website care plan descriptionEdits
Struck: Unlimited edits.Inserted: One hour of content edits a month; new pages quoted separately.Support
A stated response window for each plan, in business days, written into the plan.
Backups
Daily backups, kept off-site, with a scheduled test restore.
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