Websites and systems fail in two ways. There is the loud kind, where the site goes completely offline. Then there is the quiet kind, where a security patch that would have stopped the problem landed three months ago and nobody installed it. The quiet kind is the one I care about most.
Maintenance is the part of working with a web developer that people often forget to budget for until they desperately need it.
My ongoing support is built around a monthly retainer. It includes security updates, performance monitoring, and a dedicated bank of hours for the small stuff. If you need to swap a photo, update some text, or fix a form that stopped sending, you just shoot me an email and it gets done.
If a monthly commitment isn't your thing, there is another way. You can buy a block of hours up front and spend them ad hoc whenever a need pops up. It is the exact same quality of work, with no ongoing relationship required.
The routine health checks are the part that actually saves you money. Every month, I do a pass over your software updates, database backups, and site performance. Most of what I find is small. It might be a plugin that needs updating or a backup that stopped writing to the right place. None of it is interesting until the day it matters. By then, it is already handled.
If your current setup works but nobody is watching it, the free Digital Efficiency Assessment is a great time to ask what that risk actually costs. We'll figure out together whether a retainer or a block of hours is the better fit. I'll give you an honest answer, even if the answer is that you don't need either.