Website maintenance
Keeps the site working. Updates, backups, security patches, and uptime monitoring. It stops the site from breaking.
Management retainers
Website Management & Maintenance Services
Predictable monthly retainers that keep your website updated, secure, backed up, and monitored. Any platform, including custom PHP/CodeIgniter applications, handled by senior engineers who answer the same week you ask.
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updates applied14 · verified
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edits turnaroundsame week
engineer-reviewed · Illustrative, not client data
What Is Website Management?
A website management retainer is a monthly service that handles updates, security patching, backups, uptime monitoring, and small edits so you never think about your website. Breezy Sites retainers start at $97/month, run on any platform, and the AI Operations tier adds monitoring for AI features that everyone else ships and abandons.
Who can manage my website?
A management retainer with a senior engineering team covers what an in-house hire would, at a fraction of the cost, without the single point of failure. Breezy Sites manages WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, Next.js, and Astro sites plus custom PHP and CodeIgniter applications, which most maintenance shops won't touch. What "managed" means day to day: updates applied and verified by an engineer after a backup, security patched, daily backups, uptime watched, small edits turned around the same week.
What is the difference between website maintenance and website management?
Website maintenance keeps a site working: updates, backups, security patches, and uptime monitoring. Website management includes all of that and adds ongoing care for how the site performs: edits, speed checks, reporting, and one accountable team. Most business sites need both, so our retainers combine them, with performance monitoring and a monthly Core Web Vitals report from the Growth tier.
Website management
Keeps the site useful. Everything in maintenance, plus edits, speed checks, reporting, and one team accountable for how the site performs as the business changes.
If your provider only patches plugins and sends an invoice, you have maintenance. If someone also reviews what the site is doing for you each month, you have management. You will also see the same work sold as website support or a care plan, and the scope varies by provider, so compare what is included, not the label.
What does a website maintenance plan include?
A website maintenance plan covers the routine work that keeps a site current, secure, and recoverable. On every Breezy Sites plan that means five things.
Updates
Core, plugin, and theme updates, applied and verified by an engineer after a backup.
Security patching
Included on every plan.
Daily backups
Daily, plus one before every update. Restores are tested before handback.
Uptime monitoring
Alerts reach us, not you.
Same-week edits
Minor content edits turned around the same week.
Higher tiers add layers
Growth adds real-user performance monitoring, a monthly Core Web Vitals report, and priority response. AI Operations adds monitoring for AI features. The tiers below list each one in full.
What's included at each price point?
The price we publish is the price you pay. Cancel monthly.
Essential
from $97/mo
- Core, plugin, and theme updates, applied and verified by an engineer
- Security patching
- Daily backups, plus a backup taken before every update, with restores tested before handback
- Uptime monitoring
- Next-business-day incident response, with a root-cause fix after repeated incidents
- Minor content edits (same-week)
- Handover documentation if you leave
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Growth
from $297/mo
- Everything in Essential
- RUM performance monitoring
- Monthly Core Web Vitals report
- Priority response
AI Operations
from $497/mo
- Everything in Growth
- Answer-quality monitoring and hallucination spot-checks
- Token spend reports
- Content re-indexing as your content changes
- Prompt and model updates as APIs evolve
Is website management affordable for a small business?
Yes. A monthly website maintenance retainer from Breezy Sites starts at $97/month on a published fixed fee, and it runs month to month. For most small businesses that costs a fraction of an in-house hire, and it brings a senior team instead of one person's knowledge.
Published fixed fee
The price on the pricing page is the price you pay. No sales call to get a quote.
Month to month
Cancel any month. We earn the renewal, or you leave with a handover document.
Same-week edits
Minor content edits are turned around the same week, on every plan.
Any platform
WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, Next.js, Astro, and custom PHP applications.
Do you maintain custom PHP and CodeIgniter applications?
Yes. Management covers custom-built business applications, not just CMS sites. The team has run production PHP/CodeIgniter platforms continuously for over a decade, including membership systems, booking engines, and e-commerce backends that no plugin marketplace supports. If the developer who built your app is gone, we take ownership: document, stabilize, then maintain.
Who monitors your AI features after launch?
Nobody, usually, and that's the problem the AI Operations tier exists for. Chatbots drift as models deprecate, token costs creep, and content changes make grounded answers stale. The tier watches answer quality, spot-checks for hallucinations, reports token spend, and re-indexes your content as it changes.
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monitoredanswer quality · checked✓
hallucinations · spot-checked✓
token spend · tracked✓
content re-index · up to date✓
drift caught before a customer notices
Never think about your website again.
Updates, security, backups, uptime monitoring, same-week edits, and if you run AI features, we monitor answer quality, token spend, and re-index your content as it changes. From $97/month, on any platform.
What Should You Pair With a Management Retainer?
Audit Your Site Before Committing to Management
Stop guessing what's wrong with your website. Performance, security, SEO infrastructure, AI-readiness, and a prioritized fix list you can execute with us or anyone else.
Core Web Vitals Fixes Beyond Routine Management
Manual engineering against real-user field data, not another caching plugin. Fixed-fee diagnostic and remediation sprints measured against 28-day CrUX data.
Add an AI Knowledge Base to Your Management Plan
Grounded AI assistants built from your actual content, tested against wrong answers, capped with a token budget, and monitored in production.
Does Website Management Work on WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, Astro, and Next.js?
Webflow Maintenance Under a Management Retainer
Content, integration, and SEO upkeep for Webflow sites, plus the checks a hosted platform still needs.
Ongoing Website Management for WordPress
Update discipline, security patching, and Core Web Vitals work scoped to how WordPress actually breaks.
Shopify Maintenance Under a Management Retainer
Theme and app-script maintenance that keeps checkout fast without breaking on the next Shopify update.
Managing Next.js and Astro Builds Long-Term
Ongoing support for modern framework builds, from dependency upgrades to render-path regressions.
What if I need to migrate before starting website management?
Every Migration a Management Client Might Need
Every platform migration we run, and the guaranteed process behind it.
Migrating to WordPress Before You Start a Retainer
The exact process for landing on WordPress before your management retainer starts.
Migrating to Shopify Before You Start a Retainer
The exact process for landing on Shopify before your management retainer starts.
Going deeper
Website management questions
How much should I pay someone to maintain my website in 2026?
Published 2026 guides put small business website maintenance at roughly $30 to $300 a month. Plans at the low end typically cover core updates, backups, and uptime monitoring with little human review, so ask who checks the result. Breezy Sites starts at $97/month for the Essential tier. The full breakdown is in the website maintenance cost guide.
Do you manage sites on any platform, or just WordPress?
Any platform. WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, Next.js, Astro, and custom PHP or CodeIgniter applications. The retainer is about the engineering discipline, not the CMS.
Can you take over a site another agency built?
Yes. We start with an inventory of hosting, DNS, code, and integrations, document what we find, and take it from there. You don't need the previous agency's cooperation.
Do you maintain custom PHP or CodeIgniter applications?
Yes, and almost nobody else does. We've owned production CodeIgniter platforms continuously for more than ten years. Legacy doesn't mean broken; it means it needs an owner.
What happens if my site goes down at night?
Uptime monitoring alerts us, not you. Essential-tier incidents are handled next business day; Growth and AI Operations tiers get priority response. Repeated incidents trigger a root-cause fix, not just a restart.
Is a retainer cheaper than hiring in-house?
For most small and mid-sized businesses, yes, by a wide margin. A junior developer costs several thousand dollars a month before taxes and management overhead, and you get one person's knowledge. A retainer gives you a senior team for a fraction of that.
Can I cancel monthly?
Yes. Retainers are month to month. We earn the renewal or you leave with a handover document.
Is website support the same as website maintenance?
Mostly the label differs. Website support, care plans, and maintenance plans all describe recurring technical upkeep, and what each provider includes varies. Compare the written list of tasks, response times, and edit allowance instead of the plan name.
How do I know my current maintenance provider is doing enough?
Ask for the last three months of reports. You should see which updates were applied, when backups were last restored as a test, and uptime figures. If all you get is a plugin dashboard screenshot, nobody is reviewing the work.
Who monitors an AI chatbot after launch?
On the AI Operations tier, we do: answer-quality checks, hallucination spot-checks, token spend reports, and re-indexing when your content changes. Unmonitored chatbots degrade quietly; models deprecate and costs drift whether or not anyone is watching.
Website management
Get Ongoing Website Management You Can Trust.
Before you sign a retainer, the audit tells you what's actually broken today and what a management plan would fix going forward.