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The build price is the number everyone compares, but it's only the first line of what a website costs. Here's an honest five-year comparison of doing the upkeep yourself, walking away, and paying for ongoing care, counting the hours spent on updates, backups and DNS, and why a modest care plan comes out ahead.
Most website projects that go sideways do it for the same few reasons: unclear goals, late content and a launch nobody checked. Here's how a well-run project actually unfolds, step by step, what you'll be asked for along the way, and where the time really goes.
A website isn't finished when it launches. In 2025 alone, researchers logged more than 11,000 new security holes in WordPress add-ons, and nearly half of WordPress sites were running on software that no longer gets security fixes. Here's what a care plan should actually do, what it usually doesn't, and the questions to ask before you pay for one.
