Website maintenance services that actually work
Most plans are a plugin update once a month and a hope nothing breaks before the next one. They also stop at the website, as though the systems running the business behind it look after themselves.
Zenstate plans are the other kind. Your site, your hosting, and the systems your business actually runs on, kept secure, current, backed up and watched by one senior person who understands what they are carrying.
Updates, security, backups, performance, hosting, and the small jobs you currently chase four different people for. One plan. One number to ring.
Zenstate plans are the other kind. Your site, your hosting, and the systems your business actually runs on, kept secure, current, backed up and watched by one senior person who understands what they are carrying.
Updates, security, backups, performance, hosting, and the small jobs you currently chase four different people for. One plan. One number to ring.
What you built starts ageing the day it goes live.
Launch is not the finish line. It is the day the clock starts. Every month the ground shifts. Plugins and platforms update, and now and then update straight into a conflict. A hole is found in something you have run happily for two years. A certificate lapses. An integration between two systems stops talking, and the orders stop flowing with it. A form stops sending, and nobody notices until the enquiries dry up. None of it arrives with a warning, and all of it is needed for your business to trade.
The businesses that avoid the expensive week are rarely the ones spending more. They are simply looking after what they already own, before it turns into a problem.
Our website maintenance services ensure your business tolls don't break the very moment you need them.
The businesses that avoid the expensive week are rarely the ones spending more. They are simply looking after what they already own, before it turns into a problem.
Our website maintenance services ensure your business tolls don't break the very moment you need them.
What a care plan covers
A care plan keeps the whole setup working: the website, the hosting under it, and the systems your business runs on around it. Updates get tested before they go live.
Backups get checked by restoring them. Security is watched, performance is measured, and the small jobs, a page to add, a form to fix, an integration that has stopped talking, land with one senior person who knows how it all fits together. Someone looks after it, so you can stop.
Backups get checked by restoring them. Security is watched, performance is measured, and the small jobs, a page to add, a form to fix, an integration that has stopped talking, land with one senior person who knows how it all fits together. Someone looks after it, so you can stop.
Simplifying your service
Most businesses have a too-many-suppliers problem. The host points at the developer, the developer points at the plugin, the systems people point back at the host, and the outage sits there while they argue.
Zenstate puts one senior person over the whole thing. When something goes wrong you make one call, and the person who answers already knows your setup, so there is no queue and no working out whose fault it is first.
Zenstate puts one senior person over the whole thing. When something goes wrong you make one call, and the person who answers already knows your setup, so there is no queue and no working out whose fault it is first.
Six things a care plan should do.
01. Updates & Compatibility
Keeping your CMS (WordPress, Wix, Drupal, or whatever you run), the plugins and the platforms behind them current, and knowing which update to trust and which to hold back a week.
Core, platform & plugin updates
Compatibility testing on staging
Safe, staged deployment
Rollback if anything misbehaves
Vulnerability patching
02. Hosting & Infrastructure
Fast, hardened, managed hosting sized to your workload, not the cheapest shared box with the prettiest pricing table. The same setup that put this very site in the global top 1%.
Managed, workload-sized hosting
SSL, CDN & edge delivery
Staging that mirrors production
Performance tuning
Resource monitoring
03. Security
The security posture from our Cyber Essentials and PCI work, kept live on your site and the systems around it every day of the year.
Malware scanning & firewall
Security headers & hardening
Brute-force protection
Vulnerability monitoring
Periodic security reviews
04. Backups & Recovery
Because a backup only counts if it restores. An untested backup is a rumour with good intentions.
Daily encrypted off-site backups
Restores tested, not assumed
Version history
Documented disaster recovery
05. Performance
Fast pages sell more, and speed drifts over time, so we keep measuring it and tuning as it moves.
Core Web Vitals kept passing
Image & asset optimisation
Database & cache tuning
Ongoing page-speed work
06. Support, Systems & Improvements
The bit almost every plan leaves out. A page to add, a form to fix, a CRM that's grumbling, an automation that has stopped running? You ask, instead of hunting down a freelancer from scratch each time.
Content & copy updates
Small development tasks
Systems, CRM & integration fixes
A senior pair of hands on call
The price is on the page. Frankly, it should always be.
Website Maintenance Packages
Every plan includes the monthly work already listed, and every one is quoted +VAT. Pay annually and two months are on us.
Zenstate Essential
£150
For sites that need someone senior responsible for them, kept safe and current.
- Updates, tested before they go live
- Security monitoring & patching
- Daily backups, checked by restoring
- Uptime & SSL monitoring
- Monthly report in plain English
- We work with the hosting you already have
Zenstate Professional
£395
Everything in Essential, now hosted and tuned by us, with a senior pair of hands for the month's small jobs.
- Managed, hardened hosting included
- Performance tuning & Core Web Vitals
- Priority response
- Monthly development allowance
- Staging environment
- Systems & integration monitoring
Zenstate Enterprise
£750+
Where a minute down is real money! Can include integrated systems, or compliance in the mix. Scoped to exactly what you run.
- Everything in Professional
- Advanced monitoring across systems
- Fastest response, out-of-hours cover
- Security hardening to the standard your compliance work demands
- Larger monthly development allowance
- Guaranteed results or a performance share on eligible work
"Maintenance" is the most oversold word on the internet.
On most plans it means an automated update ran overnight, and if it broke something, you are the one who finds out, usually from a customer. It also stops at the website, as though the systems behind it maintain themselves. That is crossing your fingers on a schedule.
Real maintenance is someone testing the update first, watching the whole setup the other twenty-nine days of the month, and fixing the thing before it reaches you. We took the word literally. That is the only version worth paying for.
Real maintenance is someone testing the update first, watching the whole setup the other twenty-nine days of the month, and fixing the thing before it reaches you. We took the word literally. That is the only version worth paying for.
What you won't get here.
On most plans it means an automated update ran overnight, and if it broke something, you are the one who finds out, usually from a customer. It also stops at the website, as though the systems behind it maintain themselves. That is crossing your fingers on a schedule.
Real maintenance is someone testing the update first, watching the whole setup the other twenty-nine days of the month, and fixing the thing before it reaches you. We took the word literally. That is the only version worth paying for.
Real maintenance is someone testing the update first, watching the whole setup the other twenty-nine days of the month, and fixing the thing before it reaches you. We took the word literally. That is the only version worth paying for.
Shared Risk
Top 0.1% Performance
Cross-Platform Veteran
Zero Console Errors
Conversion-Engineered
Senior-Led Execution
Questions & Answers
Do You Only Look After Websites?
No. The website is usually the visible part. The plan also covers the hosting under it, the integrations feeding it, and the systems your business runs on around it. If it is digital and it degrades when left alone, it belongs on a care plan.
What's Included In A Care Plan?
Updates, security, backups, monitoring, performance and hosting, plus a senior pair of hands for the small jobs across your site and systems. The mix depends on the plan. The principle holds across all of them: someone looks after it before anything breaks. The full list is above, and none of it is padding.
Can You Maintain Something You Didn't Build?
Yes, and most of what we look after, we did not build. We start with a proper look under the bonnet, note what the last people left behind, and get it stable and documented before touching anything live. Taking on someone else's decisions is most of the job.
Do You Only Support WordPress?
WordPress is the common case, though far from the only one. If your site or system runs on something else and it is sane to maintain, we will tell you straight whether we are the right people for it. If we are not, we will say so.
Can I Keep My Current Hosting?
If it is fit for purpose, yes, and we will maintain everything where it sits. If it is a cheap shared box costing you speed and stability, we will show you the difference in plain numbers and let you decide. No pressure, no lock-in either way.
What Happens If An Update Breaks Something?
It is tested on a staging copy first, so most breakages never reach your visitors. If one slips through, there is a verified backup and a rollback ready, and it goes back to working while we find out why.
Do You Provide Emergency Support?
Yes, on the plans built for it, with a response time that matches what a lost hour costs you. And because it is monitored, we often catch the problem and move on it before you notice. The best emergency is the one you sleep through.
Can I Cancel Whenever I Like?
Yes. The site, the hosting and the documentation are yours, to take in-house or elsewhere whenever you please. The plan holds because it is worth keeping.
The cheapest care plan is the one that does nothing, right up to the day it matters.
Stop thinking about whether it's all still working.
Most people call us just after a scare, or just before a move they cannot afford to get wrong. A short conversation tells you whether your setup is a genuine risk or merely unloved, what a care plan would cover, and whether the change is worth the bother at all. If your current arrangement is fine, you will hear that too.