A developer who already knows your site
Ongoing website support gives you regular developer time for the jobs that come up between projects: content changes, fixes, small features, plugin decisions and technical questions, handled by people who already know how your site is built.
Most businesses don’t need a full-time developer, but they do need one reliably: when a form needs another field, a landing page needs building for a campaign, a plugin needs replacing, or a supplier asks a technical question about your website. Without a regular arrangement, each of those becomes a search for someone new who has to learn the site from scratch.
Support vs maintenance
Maintenance
- Updates, backups, monitoring, security
- Keeps the site healthy
- Report each month
Support
- Changes, fixes, small features, advice
- Moves the site forward
- Hours used as requests come in
Many clients have both: maintenance keeps the foundations sound, support hours handle everything else. Either can be taken on its own.
How support time is arranged
Support is arranged as a block of developer time each month, sized to how much your site usually needs. The arrangement sets out, in writing:
- how many hours are included each month
- how quickly requests are acknowledged and typically scheduled
- what happens to unused time and to requests over the allowance
- which requests count as urgent
We’d rather agree these clearly at the start than argue about them later.
Working alongside agencies and in-house teams
If you’re an agency or have an in-house marketer, we can act as your technical back-up: handling the development, server and migration work while you look after design, content and the client relationship. We agree upfront who talks to whom, where requests come from, and how work is handed over.
What support time doesn't cover
Support time suits jobs measured in hours. Larger pieces of work (a redesign, a migration, a new store, a big SEO project) get their own written scope and quote, so your monthly allowance isn’t swallowed by one project. Third-party licences and services are paid by you, in your name.
Every request and the time it took is logged, so you can see exactly where the hours went, and we can suggest a smaller or larger allowance if your usage changes.