Website Maintenance

Proactive Maintenance That Keeps Your Site Steady

A website isn’t a launch-and-forget tool; it’s a living system that needs monitoring, tuning, and thoughtful adjustments. Rudder’s maintenance retainers are designed to keep your digital infrastructure flight-ready, with no drama and zero ego.

What’s Included on Every Plan:
  • Performance monitoring & tuning: Ongoing speed and load performance optimization
  • Security oversight: Updates, hardening, and patches so your system stays secure
  • Content & CMS updates: Efficient updates without distractions or friction
  • Hosting & uptime reliability: Optimized servers, backups, and infrastructure visibility
  • Strategic guidance: Anticipating issues and opportunities instead of reacting

Stability is sustained through proactive care. With Rudder as your ongoing partner, your site isn’t something you worry about.


Maintenance Plans:
  • Preflight Maintenance
    Ideal for smaller sites that need steady care and proactive attention.
    2 hours a month of monthly site maintenance.
    Response time in 24 hours.
  • Flight Ready Maintenance
    For businesses that rely on their site daily and want a true “hands-on deck” partnership.
    5 hours a month of dedicated monthly support.
    Response time in 12 hours.
  • SuperSonic Maintenance Plan
    Mission-critical websites where performance, uptime, and iteration directly impact revenue, operations, or reputation.
    12 hours a month of dedicated monthly support.
    Priority response, within 6 hours
    Monthly review; speed, uptime, core web vitals checks, hosting/server health review.
  • "I'm The Captain Now" Maintenance Plan
    You've just brought on a fractional CTO/developer/designer
    20-40 hours a month of dedicated monthly support.
    Priority response, within 2 hours, and you're first in line!
    Monthly review; speed, uptime, core web vitals checks, hosting/server health review.
    Monthly strategy sessions
    SEO & GEO monitoring
    Accessibility monitoring

We take pride in providing dependable, relationship-based support, not tickets or queues. You’ll always talk directly to the person maintaining your site. Because your digital presence deserves more than just “good enough.”

Why Rudder Digital?

Rudder Digital is the calm web partner for established businesses and creative agencies. We do custom builds and (more importantly) ongoing maintenance retainers that keep sites secure, fast, and handled — without the runaround or condescending dev energy.

Let’s create something built for the long run.

Capabilities

Whether you’re building from the ground up or improving what’s already in place, we create user-focused, high-performance solutions that evolve with your organization. From structure and design to hosting and accessibility, every detail is approached with discipline and care.

Our partners don’t just hire us, they trust us. They’ve seen how disciplined execution, clear communication, and reliable results create meaningful impact.