Website Maintenance Plans, Built Into Your Hosting
Nova keeps WordPress business sites updated, backed up, monitored, and supported. The service is built specifically for WordPress—not Shopify, Wix, or custom stacks.
Nova Is a WordPress Hosting Platform
“Website maintenance” can describe almost any technology stack. Nova’s scope is narrower: it manages WordPress websites hosted on Nova, where engineers can work on the CMS and the Kubernetes-isolated environment as one system.
If you already know you need WordPress-specific care, read the full WordPress maintenance breakdown. For infrastructure details, explore Nova managed WordPress hosting.
What Affordable Website Maintenance Should Cover
Low cost is not useful if the essentials are missing. Start by checking what gets maintained, where recovery copies live, who responds, and how quickly they are expected to reply.
Updates & Patching
A maintained business site needs WordPress core and plugin updates plus timely security work. Nova handles that upkeep within the managed environment.
Backups You Can Restore
A backup is useful only when it is recent and available during recovery. Nova runs automated off-site backups daily on Scale, hourly on Momentum, and continuously on Infinite.
Availability Monitoring
Monitoring connects a visible site problem to the hosting layer behind it. That gives one team the context to investigate WordPress and infrastructure together.
Edge Security
Traefik and WAF protection filter traffic at the platform edge, while Kubernetes namespaces and containers isolate each tenant from shared PHP and cPanel environments.
Defined Support Windows
Know the operating expectation before something breaks: 24hr email response on Scale, 4hr priority response on Momentum, and 1hr response with 24/7 phone access on Infinite.
No Hourly Ticket Meter
Managed plans include unlimited change requests through the dashboard. Engineers handle the queue under your support tier without issuing a maintenance invoice for each ticket.
For a closer look at budgeting and scope, use the guide to WordPress maintenance costs as a checklist even if your original search was for general website care.
Choose the Recovery and Support Level You Need
Maintenance is included across the managed lineup. Moving up a tier changes backup frequency, testing environments, response time, and the uptime SLA—not the existence of care itself.
Scale
$1,499 setup
- Daily backups · 7-day retention
- Email support · 24hr response
- Production environment
- No uptime SLA
- Maintenance and unlimited requests included
Momentum
$2,499 setup
- Hourly backups · 30-day retention
- Priority support · 4hr response · business-hours phone
- Staging included
- 99.9% uptime SLA
- Maintenance and unlimited requests included
Infinite
$5,999 setup
- Continuous backups · 90-day retention
- 24/7 phone · 1hr response · account manager
- Multiple staging/dev environments
- 99.99% uptime SLA
- Maintenance and unlimited requests included
DIY or Freelancer Maintenance
Doing it yourself can keep direct spending low when someone has time to test updates, watch availability, verify backups, and own recovery. A freelancer can remove some of that workload, but their fee usually sits beside a separate hosting account.
Before choosing either route, document who restores the site, whether response times are committed, and which party handles infrastructure problems.
Bundled Managed Hosting
Nova places routine WordPress work, backups, security controls, monitoring, CDN, SSL, and support inside one plan. Built-in keyword research, briefs, rank tracking, and AI drafts are part of the hosting platform too.
This model is most useful when you value one accountable environment more than the lowest isolated maintenance fee. Maintenance is included in your plan, not a separate invoice.
Website Maintenance Services FAQ
What do website maintenance services include?
For a WordPress site on Nova, maintenance includes core and plugin updates, security patching, automated backups, uptime and performance monitoring, WAF edge protection, and unlimited change requests through the client dashboard. These capabilities are part of managed hosting rather than a separate maintenance product.
Is affordable website maintenance actually worth paying for?
It can be when the site supports leads, sales, or day-to-day operations and you do not want to own updates, backup checks, security response, and troubleshooting. The useful comparison is total responsibility and recovery coverage, not only the lowest monthly line item.
Does Nova maintain non-WordPress websites?
No. Nova is a WordPress-specific hosting platform. It does not maintain Shopify, Wix, static sites, or custom application stacks. A site must run on WordPress and be hosted on Nova for the managed maintenance workflow described here.
How much should website maintenance cost per month?
There is no universal price because scope and response commitments differ. Nova does not sell maintenance separately: it is included in Scale, Momentum, and Infinite managed hosting, which range from $349 to $2,499 per month plus the published one-time setup fee. Nova Hosting is a lighter $49 per month entry tier.
What is the difference between website maintenance and web hosting?
Hosting supplies the environment that serves the site. Maintenance covers ongoing application work such as updates, patching, monitoring, backups, and requested changes. Nova combines the two so the team responsible for the WordPress work also has infrastructure context.
How do I get started with Nova website maintenance?
Choose the managed plan that matches your support and recovery needs, then request migration. Every plan includes a free zero-downtime migration that normally takes 24–48 hours. Once the site is on Nova, ongoing requests are submitted through the client dashboard.
Put Your WordPress Site on a Maintained Platform
Nova includes a free zero-downtime migration on every plan, usually completed within 24–48 hours. After migration, submit site work through the dashboard while the platform handles backups, monitoring, updates, and security. Plans include a 30-day money-back guarantee.