How much does a small business website cost per month?

It depends on the site. Here's the straight version:

• A simple static site — a few pages you mostly leave alone — costs about $12 a month for hosting and a domain.
• A builder platform like Wix or Squarespace runs about $10–$30 a month, hosting and updates included.
• WordPress runs about $15–$40 a month for hosting and software — plus your time, because it needs regular updating.
• Having us manage it starts at $49 a month, whatever kind of site it is. That's the part where a real person handles the updates, security, backups, and support for you.

And the build itself is a separate one-time cost. It starts at $200 for a single, focused landing page — the entry point — and goes up from there depending on how much site you need.

You can leave a website alone — it just quietly stops working for you. Skip security updates and your site becomes an open door, since outdated software is the most common way in. Skip backups and one bad update means starting over from scratch. Let it slow down and Google notices, and so do customers. And the sneakiest one — a contact form can break and keep failing for weeks while you never hear a single complaint.

An unmaintained website doesn't just sit there. Over time it turns from an asset into a liability. Maintenance is the boring stuff that stops that from happening.

You can host a basic site yourself for around $10/month. But the real cost isn't the hosting — it's your time, spent on evenings and weekends running updates, chasing conflicts, and babysitting backups instead of running your business.

For most owners it's a false economy. The hours you pour into your website are hours you're not out there making money. Having us handle it starts at $49 a month, spent on whatever needs doing, or a specific job can be a one-off with a fixed fee. You email us a task, we handle it. No jargon, no surprises.

Run the numbers with us. Industry research suggests a single hour of downtime can cost a small business $8,000–$25,000, and the commonly cited average for a security breach is $120,000 in total damage. And a form that goes down for two weeks, unnoticed, is often 5–15 lost leads — $1,000 to $15,000 of missed work for most service businesses.

At $49/month ($588/year), that's the cheapest insurance you'll ever buy for your business online. One prevented incident pays for years of service. Most owners find the only real surprise is how cheap it is.

Security monitoring and malware blocking, daily off-site backups, automated updates tested in staging before they go live, speed checkups, 24/7 uptime monitoring — and a real human who gets back to you when you email. No chatbots, no ticket queues, no jargon.

That's the base. Because the retainer is a bucket of work, the same $49 a month can also cover new pages, small design work, or a bit of SEO — whatever needs doing. Or a one-off project is a fixed upfront fee for a specific job. You email us a task. We handle it. No jargon, no surprises.