Website maintenance in the Philippines costs ₱2,000 to ₱25,000 a month on published plans. The low end covers hosting, updates and backups for a simple site. The high end covers online stores with a developer on call. Our Managed Hosting is ₱1,999 a month with hosting included, because a hand-coded site needs far less upkeep than WordPress.
The two numbers in the title are both real prices for "maintenance". They're not the same service. This guide covers what the word includes, what each price band buys, why the platform your site runs on decides most of the bill, and what to check in the contract before you sign.
What "website maintenance" means
Maintenance is a bundle of six jobs. Vendors bundle them differently, which is why quotes are hard to compare.
| Job | What it is | What happens if nobody does it |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting | The server that serves your pages, and its renewal | The site goes offline when the plan lapses |
| Updates | Patching the CMS, theme and plugins (WordPress), or rebuilding and redeploying (static site) | Known security holes stay open |
| Backups | Copies of the site and database, stored somewhere else, tested | A hack or a bad update takes the site with it |
| Security | SSL renewal, malware scanning, firewall, spam protection on forms | Google flags the site, forms fill with junk |
| Content edits | Changing text, prices, photos, adding a page | You wait, or you learn the CMS |
| Support | Someone who answers when it breaks, with a stated response time | You find out how patient your customers are |
When a vendor says "maintenance, ₱3,000 a month", ask which of the six are in. Marvill's guide makes the same point: hosting and domain fees are usually billed on their own.
Website maintenance cost in the Philippines: what vendors charge
The published ranges, from four Philippine guides:
| Source | Basic | Standard | Full service |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marvill | ₱2,000 to ₱6,000 | ₱6,000 to ₱15,000 | ₱15,000 to ₱25,000 and up |
| Praferosa Web Works | ₱2,000 to ₱5,000 | ₱5,000 to ₱10,000 | ₱10,000 to ₱25,000 and up |
| D3 | ₱5,000 to ₱10,000 (brochure site) | ₱10,000 to ₱20,000 (content site) | ₱20,000 to ₱30,000 and up (e-commerce) |
| Orodigital | ₱1,000 to ₱5,000 ("care plans", optional) |
Three of the four agree on a ₱2,000 floor. D3 starts at ₱5,000 and argues that cheaper plans are hosting with a label on it, which is fair in a lot of cases. Marvill adds that month-to-month billing costs 15 to 25 percent more than an annual contract.
What ₱2,000 a month buys, and what ₱20,000 buys
At ₱2,000 to ₱3,000 a month you're buying a WordPress site kept alive. Core and plugin updates once a month, a daily off-site backup, uptime monitoring that emails someone, and an hour or two of small edits. No staging site, so updates go straight to production and you hope. Response time is "when we get to it".
For a brochure site with six pages and a contact form, that's most of what the site needs.
At ₱20,000 a month you're buying a developer's attention. Marvill's full-service tier lists a 4 to 8 business hour response window, a tested staging site so updates are checked before they go live, monthly analytics and uptime reports, SEO health monitoring, and 8 to 20 support hours. D3's top tier is priced for e-commerce, on the grounds that an hour of downtime on a store has a peso cost you can calculate.
The middle, ₱6,000 to ₱15,000, is where most content-heavy business sites land: the basic plan plus performance checks, database clean-up, malware scanning, broken link audits, and three to five support hours.
Everyone applies updates. What separates the tiers is what happens when an update breaks the site at 9pm: whether there's a backup from this morning, a staging copy to test the fix on, and a person who answers.
A WordPress site vs a hand-coded site: the monthly to-do list
Here's the part most maintenance guides skip. The platform decides the bill.
| Task | WordPress site | Hand-coded static site (ours) |
|---|---|---|
| CMS, theme and plugin updates | Monthly, sometimes more; WordPress ships security releases near-monthly, and Patchstack data cited by D3 puts 91 percent of new WordPress vulnerabilities in plugins | None. No CMS runs on the server and there are no plugins |
| Database maintenance | Quarterly clean-up, caching tune-ups | No database on the server; content lives in the CMS and publishes as flat files |
| Malware scanning | Ongoing; a PHP server running plugins is the attack surface | Minimal; there's no server-side code to inject into |
| Backups | Daily, database and files, tested restores | Daily, and the whole site is also in version control |
| SSL | Renewal watched (usually automatic now) | Automatic |
| Content edits | Through the WordPress admin or a support ticket | Click-to-edit on the page, or a support ticket |
| Rebuild on content change | Not needed | Automatic on publish, about a minute |
A WordPress site is a small application running on a server: a database, a scripting language, and a dozen third-party plugins, all of which need patching. A static site is a set of files on a content delivery network. When you publish a change in the CMS, the site rebuilds and the new files replace the old ones. Nothing runs on the server to attack or to update.
That's why our plans cost what they cost. The site needs less work, so the plan costs less.
What Redstack's plans include at each tier
All three plans run on Vercel's edge network, and all three include SSL, daily backups, uptime monitoring, and forms with spam protection. Full prices here.
| Plan | Monthly | Yearly | What's included |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hosting | ₱349 (₱279 at the member rate after a package) | ₱3,490 | Fast hosting, SSL and daily backups, uptime monitoring, email support |
| Managed Hosting | ₱1,999 | Everything in Hosting, plus content and maintenance updates done for you, and priority support | |
| Managed Hosting Plus | ₱2,499 | Everything in Managed Hosting, plus unlimited revisions and additional page requests |
How the plans attach to a build:
- Spark (₱10,999) puts your new site on the Hosting plan. It renews at ₱2,792 a year.
- Launch (₱14,999) includes a year of Managed Hosting. It renews at ₱15,992 a year.
- Autopilot (₱29,999) includes a year of Managed Hosting Plus. It renews at ₱19,992 a year.
- Migrate (₱7,999) moves an existing site onto our stack, same design and URLs. Migrate + Host (₱9,999) adds a year of Hosting.
Managed is the plan we recommend for most businesses, and the reason is the "content and maintenance updates" line. You email a change, we make it. On a WordPress care plan that's typically a capped number of hours. On Managed it's the normal way the site gets edited, because the changes are small and the site is built to take them.
Managed Plus is for sites that keep growing: new pages every month, a section redesigned now and then, revisions without counting them.
When you need managed hosting, and when you don't
You need a managed plan if any of these are true:
- Nobody at the business wants to log into a CMS. Ever.
- The site changes more than once a month: prices, promos, new services, staff.
- The site produces leads you'd notice losing. A contact form that stops working is the failure that goes unnoticed longest, because nothing looks broken.
- The site is on WordPress with more than a handful of plugins. Then managed is the thing standing between you and a malware clean-up bill. Marvill puts remediation after 18 months of neglect at ₱80,000 to ₱150,000.
You don't need a managed plan if:
- The site is a hand-coded static site with a CMS you're comfortable using. Our Hosting plan at ₱349 a month covers SSL, backups and monitoring, and click-to-edit handles the content.
- The site is a one-page placeholder that won't change until the next redesign.
- You have someone technical in-house and a documented backup routine.
The case to avoid is the middle one: a WordPress site, nobody technical, and no plan at all. That's the site that works fine for a year and then goes down the week you need it.
Red flags in maintenance contracts
Read the task list before the price. Watch for:
- "Maintenance" that's just hosting. If the deliverable is "your site stays online", that's a hosting plan at a maintenance price. Ask for the list of tasks and how often each one runs.
- No stated response time. "Priority support" with no hours attached means nothing. Marvill's advice is to get the emergency definition and the response window in writing, and we agree.
- Malware removal billed per incident, buried in the terms. Fine if disclosed. Not fine if you find out at the invoice.
- Support hours that expire monthly with no rollover. You'll pay for twelve months and use three.
- Backups with no retention period and no restore test. "We back up daily" is only useful if a restore has ever been tried.
- The vendor owns the domain or the hosting account. Leaving becomes a negotiation. The domain should be registered in your name, full stop.
- A lock-in longer than a year with no exit clause. Annual is normal and earns a discount. Three years with no way out is a hostage situation, whatever the discount.
- No report. You should get something monthly: uptime, what was updated, what broke. Silence means either nothing happened or nobody looked.
Our own terms, for comparison: monthly plans cancel any time, yearly plans refund within 14 days, and the domain is yours. If you leave, you get the code and a content export.
Questions people ask
What is included in website maintenance in the Philippines?
Hosting, CMS and plugin updates, backups, security (SSL, scanning, spam protection), content edits, and support with a response time. Not every plan includes all six, and hosting and domain are often billed separately. Ask for the task list and the frequency of each task before comparing prices.
How much is website maintenance for a small business website?
₱2,000 to ₱6,000 a month on the open market for a simple WordPress site, based on Marvill and Praferosa's published ranges. For a hand-coded site, our Managed Hosting is ₱1,999 a month with hosting, SSL, backups, monitoring and content updates included, or ₱349 a month for hosting only.
Can I maintain my website myself?
On a static site with a CMS, yes, for content. Hosting, SSL and backups come with the plan. On WordPress, you can apply updates yourself, but you need a backup before each one, a way to test it, and time to fix what breaks. Most owners stop doing it within a few months.
What happens if I stop paying for maintenance?
On a WordPress site, nothing visible for a few months, then plugins fall behind, the site slows, and eventually it's compromised or breaks on a PHP update. Clean-up costs ₱50,000 to ₱150,000 per Marvill. On a static site, the files keep serving as long as hosting is paid, and nothing degrades.
Before you sign
Get the six jobs in writing with a frequency next to each. Get a response time. Confirm the domain is in your name. Then compare the monthly price, because until you've done that, you're comparing a ₱2,000 plan to a ₱20,000 plan without knowing which one is the bargain.
Our hosting and managed plans are on the pricing page, and a new build or a migration starts at get started. If a WordPress site has become a monthly worry, moving it to a static site is usually cheaper than the next year of maintaining it. How much a new site costs is covered in its own guide.
