Someone Should Be Looking After Your Website
A WordPress site left alone for six months is a site waiting to break. We do the updates, the backups and the small fixes, so you never have to think about it.
- Daily backups, kept off your server
- WordPress, theme and plugin updates handled
- Content changes done for you, not by you
- No contract — stop whenever you like
What It Costs to Keep It Running
Four plans. The difference between them is how much content work you need each month, not how well we look after the site — that part is the same on all four.
Standard
For a business that changes prices or photos every few weeks and would rather not do it.
R600/month
- Monthly WordPress, theme & plugin updates
- Support Hours – 9am – 5pm
- 3 content updates/month (or up to 6 hours)
- Content Updates (Not Page Additions)
- Support via Remote Desktop – Included
- No Contract – Cancel any time
Pro
For a site that keeps growing. Everything in Standard, plus a new page each month.
R1200/month
- Monthly WordPress, theme & plugin updates
- Support Hours – 9am – 5pm
- 6 content updates/month (or up to 10 hours)
- New page designs (only 1 page a month)
- Support via Remote Desktop – Included
- No Contract – Cancel any time
Premium
For online stores and busy sites where small changes come up weekly, not monthly.
R2000/month
- Monthly WordPress, theme & plugin updates
- Support Hours – 9am – 5pm
- Unlimited small updates (or up to 10–15 hours)
- New page designs (up to 2 per month)
- E-commerce product updates
- Support via Remote Desktop – Included
- No Contract – Cancel any time
Every plan includes a health check on your hosting and a short note at month end telling you what we did. Site bigger than this, or built on something other than WordPress? Custom maintenance packages are available — get a tailored quote.
What You Are Actually Paying to Avoid
Nobody enjoys paying for maintenance. Here is what the money is actually buying you.
Not Being the Easy Target
Most WordPress sites are not hacked by anyone clever. They are hacked by a script that scans the internet for an old plugin with a known hole in it. Keeping things current is genuinely most of the defence.
Nothing Quietly Breaking
Plugins fall out of step with each other and something stops working — often the contact form, which means enquiries vanish and nobody tells you. We check the things that matter still work.
A Site That Has Not Got Slower
Sites gain weight over time: bigger images, more plugins, a database full of junk. Left alone for a year the same site loads noticeably slower. We keep trimming it back.
Not Being On Your Own
When something does go wrong you send one message to a person who already knows your site, instead of hunting for whoever built it three years ago.
The Work Itself
Four areas, on every plan. What changes on the bigger plans is how much content and design work is included, not whether the site is looked after.
Security & Backups
- Malware & threat scanning
- SSL certificate checks
- Automated regular backups
- Firewall & login protection
Updates & Fixes
- Core, theme & plugin updates
- Broken-link checks & fixes
- Form & checkout testing
- Bug fixes & small tweaks
Performance
- Uptime & downtime monitoring
- Page-speed optimisation
- Image & cache tuning
- Database clean-ups
Content & Design
- Text & image updates
- New pages & sections
- Blog & product posting
- Seasonal design refreshes
Not Sure Which Plan Fits?
Book a short call and we will go through your site with you and say which plan makes sense — including saying the cheapest one, if that is the honest answer. Already broken and need someone now? Ring 073 025 8806 and we will look at it today.
Questions People Ask Before Signing Up
The honest answers, including the ones that are not in our favour.
If your site is WordPress, yes — something needs updating most months, and the gap between updates is where the trouble starts. If your site is a handful of plain HTML pages that never change, honestly, no. Ask us and we will tell you which one you have.
Usually nothing, for a while. Then one of three things: a plugin update you finally install breaks the layout because it skipped four versions, the contact form stops sending and you do not notice for weeks, or a scanner finds an old vulnerability and you are cleaning up a hacked site. The first two are annoying. The third costs real money.
Standard is R600 a month and covers updates, backups, support and three content changes a month plus remote-desktop help. Pro is R1 200 and includes a new page each month. Premium is R2 000 for unlimited small changes and e-commerce product updates. Pay annually and you get two months free on any of them.
Any time, with no notice period and no cancellation fee. You pay for the month you are in and that is where it stops. We hand you your latest backup on the way out. Moving up or down a plan is the same — just tell us and it changes from the next invoice.
The whole site: your pages, your images, the database and the code. Taken daily and stored away from your hosting, because a backup sitting on the same server as the site is not really a backup. If you need it restored, say so and we put the most recent clean version back — usually within the hour.
We clean it, close whatever hole let them in, and restore from a backup taken before the break-in. Then we tell you plainly what happened. This is covered on every plan — we are not going to quote you extra on the worst day of your website’s life.
We fix things. White screens, 500 errors, broken layouts, plugin conflicts, forms that stopped emailing, 403s and 404s, login problems, mobile display going strange. If it is a small fix it is included; if it turns out to be a rebuild we will say so before doing anything and quote it separately.
No. Your site can stay exactly where it is — we just need access. The only real requirement is that it is WordPress. We will also happily look at the hosting itself and tell you if it is the reason your site is slow, which it sometimes is.
Not at all, and it is most of what we do. We start with a health check so we know what we have inherited, fix anything obviously wrong, and go from there. If you already have a developer we are happy to work alongside them rather than take over.
Weekly on Standard and Pro. Daily on Premium. Uptime is watched constantly on every plan, so if the site goes down we usually know before you do. Support hours are 9am to 5pm on weekdays — outside that, the emergency number is on this page.
From the Lamus Design Blog
Why Website Maintenance Matters More Than You Think
The hidden costs of a neglected website — and how a small monthly plan prevents them.
How Often Should You Back Up Your Website?
A simple guide to backup frequency, storage and getting back online fast if disaster strikes.
5 Signs Your Website Needs Some TLC
Slow pages, broken forms, outdated plugins — the warning signs worth acting on early.