Your website, always fast, always up, always current.
A contractor website that breaks during storm season is worse than no website — it kills the conversions when you need them most. Our hosting and maintenance program keeps your site fast, secure, monitored, and continuously improved.
Hosting and maintenance for contractor websites covers: managed hosting on Vercel or Netlify with edge caching, SSL renewal, daily backups, uptime monitoring (with SMS alerts on downtime), security patching, content updates (copy edits, new photos, new service pages), Core Web Vitals monitoring, and quarterly performance audits. For Iron Pine-built sites, hosting is included free; for sites we didn't build, we offer a hosting + maintenance retainer.
What goes wrong without active maintenance
- WordPress sites get hacked or break after plugin updates.
- SSL certificates expire — customers see scary browser warnings.
- Site goes down during a storm spike and nobody notices for hours.
- Old content (closed services, wrong phone number) lingers because no one updates it.
- Page speed degrades over time as images and code accumulate.
What we cover
- Managed hosting on Vercel or Netlify (or migration to it if needed).
- Daily backups + restore-on-demand.
- Uptime monitoring with SMS alert on any downtime > 60 seconds.
- SSL renewal handled automatically.
- Quarterly Core Web Vitals audit + fixes.
- Up to 2 hours/mo of content updates included (copy, photos, service pages).
- Annual full security audit + accessibility audit.
Deliverables, in plain English.
Managed hosting (Vercel or Netlify)
Uptime + SSL monitoring
Daily backups
Monthly content updates (up to 2 hours included)
Quarterly performance + accessibility audit
SMS alert on any downtime
How a hosting & maintenance engagement unfolds.
Step 1
Week 1 — Migration
Move existing site to managed hosting (or set up if Iron Pine-built).
Step 2
Week 2 — Monitoring
Uptime, performance, security monitors configured.
Step 3
Ongoing — Maintain
Daily backups, monthly content edits, quarterly audits.
Pricing for Hosting & Maintenance.
Hosting + maintenance: $200/mo for Iron Pine-built sites (includes hosting). $400/mo for sites we didn't build (includes migration + ongoing). Bundled free in our core retainer.
Hosting & Maintenance questions we hear most.
If yours isn't here, the contact form goes straight to the founder's inbox.
No, if done right. We test on a staging URL first, lock all URLs to redirect properly, and switch DNS only after confirming everything works. Migrations typically take 1-2 weeks with zero downtime.
Ready to see what a quarter with Iron Pine looks like?
Book a free 15-minute audit. We'll pull your GBP, search rankings, and ad data live on the call and show you the three highest-leverage moves we'd make in the first 30 days.
- No long contracts
- ·
- Plain-English reporting
- ·
- You own everything we build