How much does website maintenance cost?

Website maintenance typically costs $50 to $150 a month in Australia for a basic plan covering updates and backups, and $150 to $400 a month for a fuller plan with security monitoring and malware protection. Those numbers are mostly a WordPress reality, because the platform’s core, themes and plugins need constant patching to stay secure. Skip it and a malware cleanup commonly runs $150 to $600 or more.

Web Blend builds hand-coded static sites instead, which have no plugin stack to patch, so hosting and care are included in the build price rather than billed as a monthly defence. If you are quoted maintenance, ask exactly what is being maintained and what happens if you stop paying.