How much does website maintenance cost in Pakistan?

Maintenance is really several jobs bundled together, and quotes differ mainly in which of them they include. Software updates for WordPress, themes and plugins, tested before they go live. Backups stored somewhere other than the site's own server. Security monitoring and malware cleanup. Uptime alerts. Renewal tracking for the domain, hosting and SSL certificate. And content edits, from changing timings in Ramadan to adding a new branch. A quote that only says updates may leave you paying separately for everything else, especially the cleanup when something goes wrong.

The size of the job depends on the site. A lean, hand-coded site with no plugins has little to update and a small attack surface, so its upkeep is mostly backups, renewals and edits. A WordPress site with a page builder and thirty plugins has something to update almost every week, and each update can break something. An online store adds payment gateways, courier plugins and stock data that must never be lost. Your third-party bills, such as hosting, the domain, premium plugin licences and any CDN, sit on top of the labour.

When comparing providers in Islamabad or Rawalpindi, ask for a list of what happens each month, how quickly they respond if the site goes down, how many content edits are included, and whether the domain and hosting stay in your name. For sites we build, maintenance and hosting are part of the Business bundle, whose price appears on this page. Looking after a site built elsewhere is quoted after the free audit, because a tidy site and one held together by abandoned plugins are very different amounts of work.