No hosting, just maintenance

Your host. Our Maintenance

Happy with your current hosting? Keep it. We’ll take care of the updates, backups, security and monitoring on your WordPress site - so you can get on with your business.

Save wehn you bundle

Let us host it too and your maintenance costs less.

Significant discount vs maintenance-only
What's Included

Total peace of mind, on the hosting you already have.

Works On Your Own Hosting

Keep the host you already have — we look after the WordPress side wherever your site lives.

24/7 Uptime Monitoring

We're alerted the moment your site goes down, day or night.

WordPress Core Updates

Automatic updates keep your site stable and protected against vulnerabilities.

Off-Site Backups

Regular backups, stored for 3 months, so you can restore in minutes, not days.

Plugin & Theme Updates

We apply every update from your plugin and theme authors, safely and on time.

UK Based Support

Our office hours support is all UK based. No call centres or queues, just quick and easy email or phone support.

Security & Malware Scans

Daily scans and 72-hour deep scans to catch anything before it causes harm.

Monthly Reports

A clear, jargon-free summary of everything we did to keep your site healthy.

Plans & Pricing

Simple, all-inclusive managed plans

Tell us what you need and we’ll point you in the right direction.

Essential

Standard performance maintenance for a straightforward WordPress site.

£40.00 / month

£48 per month inc VAT

Business

Our most popular plan — for sites running a fuller set of plugins.

£50.00 / month

£60.00 per month inc VAT
How it works

We take it on in days. Then you can forget about it.

1

Quick site review

We check your site is healthy and supportable on your current hosting. If it’s been neglected, we’ll tell you what needs doing first.

2

We connect & secure

We get secure access to your WordPress site, set up off-site backups and add monitoring – wherever it’s hosted.

3

We maintain & monitor

Core, plugin and theme updates, off-site backups and round-the-clock monitoring run quietly in the background, every week.

4

You relax

You get a plain-English report each month and a UK team a phone call away. No more website worry.

Client Stories

100's of UK businesses trust us with their websites

"We recently upgraded to optimised hosting and have been blown away by the difference. Our website and booking system is so much faster than before. We love it!"
Siobhan Gardner
Airport Angels
"I switched from 1and1 and haven't looked back. The support is fantastic and my website is now secured and backed-up so I need not worry about anything going wrong."
Pav Bryan
Cycling Coach & Athlete
"The support we receive is fast and efficient which gives us great confidence to continue enjoying the professional service provided by the team."
George Coleman
Honey Barrett Accountants
"We can just pick up the phone and speak with someone. Best thing about moving to Hive & Host from the well-known hosts."
Rob Magri
Premier Travel Chauffeurs
FAQs

Questions, answered

If your site has not been maintained we may suggest a review first.

This is to make sure we support your site and it’s in a fit state to migrate or maintain.

There are occasions where sites have not been updated for years and updating plugins, themes or moving them can cause problems.

We charge for a review and usually this is between 1 and 2 hours work.

We’ll aim to bring your site upto date but if we can’t we’ll recommend a course of action and our findings

Any requests regarding your hosting control panel with your hosting supplier of choice must be handled by them.

PHP versions are handled by your web host. If they can’t assist, we’re happy to test your site on a higher level of PHP for you — normal hourly rates apply.

All support requests must be managed and requested by you directly to your hosting supplier.

We’ll always help to advise you what to say to them.

We would be happy to assist you and communicate directly with your hosting supplier if you subscribe to our premium support plan.

All support requests must be managed and requested by you directly to your hosting or email supplier.

We’ll always help to advise you what to say to them.

We would be happy to assist you and communicate directly with your hosting supplier if you subscribe to our premium support plan.

Keep your host. Hand us the headache.

Works on your hosting · No long-term contracts · UK support · Cancel any time