MANAGED HOSTING & CARE
Built with care.
Built with care.
Managed by me.
Managed WordPress hosting and ongoing maintenance.
Managed WordPress hosting and ongoing maintenance.
Most websites are built by one person and then handed to nobody. The agency finishes, the invoice clears, and the site starts drifting.
Websites need regular care. Things get out of date, security issues can be missed, and sometimes something simply stops working. I host the websites I build, so you have one person who understands how your site works and is there to look after it. No support queue. No passing you around. Just me.
All of it runs quietly in the background, so a well-hosted site is one you never have to think about.
A brochure site and a site taking twenty thousand requests a day are not the same job, so they are not the same price. Annual, billed in advance, excluding GST.
$960 / year
$1,440 / year
From $1,800
Not sure which one fits? That is a two-minute conversation, and I would rather put you in the right band than the expensive one.
This is separate from the Creative Partner retainer, which is ongoing design and development support. Hosting is the foundation. The retainer is the work that happens on top of it.
It is all covered in a short written agreement, reviewed annually with 30 days notice before any change. Read the Managed Hosting & Care Agreement →
Often for months at a time.
These are all real things I have found on sites handed to me, and none of them announced themselves:
A page builder that had not been maintained by its developer in years, still running the whole layout. A site two versions behind on WordPress with a known plugin vulnerability sitting open. A business page that earned the owner money, live and working, but linked from nowhere in the navigation for who knows how long.
None of that shows up as an outage. A monitoring service would report every one of those sites as perfectly healthy. It takes a person opening the site and actually looking.
It is also why a planned check-in every year or two matters: catching what has drifted before it turns into an emergency, rather than finding out the hard way.
The first year of Managed Hosting & Care comes with it. No separate decision to make at launch, when you have plenty of other things to think about. Year two onward is quoted up front, in the proposal, before the build starts — never a surprise invoice for something that was never discussed.
Moving an existing site — including one currently running on a page builder — is a day, not a project. It runs as a day-rate piece of work, on a staging copy first, and goes live only once it has been checked page by page.
See how builds are priced →Hosting and care keeps the site running well. It does not cover changing what the site says or does.
Content updates, text and imagesDesign work and new featuresSEO, marketing, and content strategyThird-party software configurationAll of it is available, quoted separately. A focused day, a scoped engagement, or an ongoing retainer, depending on how much there is. That includes work with a hard deadline — a launch date, a funder's due date — which still runs as day-rate work, and moves faster if the site is already under my care since no time goes on getting oriented.
Day-rate sessionsScoped engagementsCreative Partner retainerCurious, thoughtful, and collaborative, Lara asks the right questions to better understand our objectives and audience. Her work is not only elegant and effective – but also consistently delivered on time and on budget.
Rachel Kelly
Program Director, DigiBC
Lara brought focus and clarity to the creative process of creating my website. Her work blends beautiful design with function.
Dianne Whelan
Award-winning Director & Producer
She went from words on a screen to a complete style guide between lunch and dinner. No back-and-forth emails over several weeks. Lara is my go-to for a cohesive, well-considered visual brand.
LaShae Dorsey
Tech Solution Implementer & Strategist
