HOSTING + SSL
Commonly $10–25 a month bought on its own, kept current without you thinking about it.
MODEL A — MANAGED WEBSITE
A website that keeps working, whether or not you're thinking about it.
$0 down, $99 a month. Hosting, security, unlimited content updates, and a person who answers the phone — all built into one price.
- SSL ACTIVE
- BACKED UP ROUTINELY
- MONITORED CONTINUOUSLY
- SUPPORT 7AM–7PM DAILY
THE ACTUAL COMPARISON
$99 a month looks expensive next to the wrong things.
A $16 builder and a freelancer's flat quote aren't the same product as a managed site — so they're not a fair comparison. Here's what each one actually leaves you holding.
DIY builder
~$16–49/mo
- You build it
- You maintain it
- You're the IT department
- No one to call when it breaks
One-time freelancer
$500–$2,500 once
- New invoice for every change
- Hosting and security are your problem
- No one watching after launch
- Depends on them staying reachable
Managed website
$0 down + $99/mo
- Hosting, SSL, backups included
- Security updates included
- Unlimited content changes
- A person answers when it breaks
WHAT'S RUNNING IN THE BACKGROUND
Priced separately, this typically costs more than $99.
Every piece inside the subscription has a going rate on its own. Bundled, they cost less than most businesses would pay buying them one at a time — and nothing gets left for you to notice when it breaks.
BACKUPS + UPTIME MONITORING
Commonly $10–20 a month elsewhere. Routine, automatic, and watched.
SECURITY + DEPENDENCY UPDATES
The kind of work agencies bill $75–150 an hour for, as-needed.
UNLIMITED CONTENT CHANGES
Two-business-day target once a request is complete. No per-request invoice.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN NOBODY'S WATCHING
A website doesn't fail loudly. It just quietly stops working.
Certificates expire. Dependencies fall out of date. A contact form stops delivering leads and nothing about the page looks any different. Most owners find out when a customer mentions they couldn't get through.
The same is true of the on-page SEO foundation every site launches with — clean markup, fast load times, proper structure. That foundation erodes on its own: a broken link here, a stale page there. Search engines notice before most owners do. This subscription keeps it maintained as part of the same $99 — not a promise about rankings, which nobody can guarantee, just one less thing decaying quietly in the background.
SAID PLAINLY
What the subscription actually means
No fine print doing the talking. This is the whole arrangement.
- You own your domain, always.
- You own your content, always.
- You can buy the finished website for $999, any time you're current on payments.
- If you ever cancel without buying it out, the site comes down — you keep your domain and the materials you supplied, but the website itself stays with us.
- Emergency support runs 7am–7pm Central, seven days a week, by phone.
WHAT $99 IS ACTUALLY FUNDING
Low commitment going in. One extra job usually covers the month.
$0 down means no large payment before a line of code is written, and no multi-year contract to get out of. For most of the local businesses this is built for, one additional booked job — a roofing estimate, a full week of appointments, one more car in the bay — covers a month or more of the subscription outright.
- $0Due before your site launches
- $3.25Roughly what $99/mo works out to per day
- 2 daysTarget turnaround on a complete content request
Ready when you are.
Start the intake, or talk it through first — either way, nothing about your website has to be your problem once it's live.