Website Maintenance & Support for Minnesota Businesses

Most of our maintenance clients are on sites MWS built and host on Cloudways. That setup is designed to work well together, and it makes ongoing support straightforward. But we also work with clients who have existing WordPress sites built by someone else, hosted somewhere else, or inherited from a previous vendor.

Existing Sites on Other Hosting

If you have a WordPress site hosted elsewhere and want to move it to a managed plan with MWS, we can handle the migration to Cloudways and bring it into our standard maintenance workflow. If you prefer to stay on your current host, we can discuss what support looks like in that context — though our standard plan pricing assumes Cloudways hosting.

One-Off and Ad Hoc Work

Not every request fits a monthly retainer. If you need a specific fix, a content update, a plugin resolved, or a technical issue diagnosed, we are available for ad hoc work billed at an hourly rate in 15-minute increments. For larger one-off projects, we provide a scope and quote upfront so you know the cost before we start. Reach out and we will figure out the right approach for your situation.

In either case, you retain full ownership of your site and everything on it. MWS does not hold your code, your content, or your domain hostage to a service relationship. If you ever want to move on or bring your site in-house, we make that straightforward.

A neglected website does not fail all at once. It degrades gradually — and often invisibly, until something breaks badly enough for a customer to notice or a search ranking to drop.

Outdated plugins are one of the most common entry points for WordPress security breaches. An unpatched vulnerability in a plugin you installed two years ago and forgot about can give an attacker access to your site, your contact form submissions, or worse. WordPress core updates address security issues on a regular basis, and sites that fall multiple versions behind become increasingly exposed.

Performance is another casualty of deferred maintenance. Hosting environments change. PHP versions that powered your site efficiently a few years ago may now be end-of-life. Plugins that were lean when you installed them may have ballooned over subsequent updates. A site that loaded in two seconds at launch can creep toward five or six without anyone noticing — until Google does.

None of this is meant to be alarming. It is just the reality of running a website on a platform that is actively developed and widely deployed. Consistent, routine maintenance is far less expensive than emergency fixes after something goes wrong. Our blog post on website maintenance as a business safety issue goes deeper on this if you want the full picture. Or schedule a free consultation and we will take a look at where your site stands today.