Website Maintenance for Sudbury & Northern Ontario Businesses
A business website that is not maintained becomes a liability — broken forms, expired SSL, hacked plugins, silent outages. We keep your site current, secure, and online, and turn around the content changes you actually need.
Serving Greater Sudbury, Northern Ontario, and surrounding communities. Remote support available throughout Ontario.
Most small business websites in Sudbury are built once and then left alone. Six months later a plugin auto-updates and breaks the contact form. A year later the SSL certificate expires quietly and Chrome starts blocking the site. Eighteen months in, an unpatched WordPress plugin gets exploited and the site is redirecting to a spam page. Every one of these situations is avoidable with real maintenance.
This page is part of our broader Website Design Sudbury cluster. Maintenance is what protects the investment you made in the design and build.
What is included in a maintenance plan
Every plan includes the technical hygiene that keeps a site alive: patching, backups, uptime monitoring, SSL and DNS oversight, security scanning, and a monthly report. Content update time is bundled based on plan size — text edits, image swaps, new sections, blog post publishing, and small design tweaks.
- WordPress core, theme, and plugin updates on a controlled schedule
- Off-site versioned backups with periodic restore tests
- Uptime and SSL monitoring with alerting
- Monthly security scans and malware checks
- Bundled content update hours each month
- Broken-link and form-submission verification
- Monthly report showing exactly what changed
Why in-house or ad-hoc maintenance fails
Owners try to handle updates themselves, fall behind, and eventually skip a critical patch. Or the person who built the site three years ago has moved on and nobody has the login. Or a well-meaning staff member installs a plugin that conflicts with everything. Ongoing maintenance is a discipline, not a task list.
Bundled with IT for a complete picture
Because we also handle Managed IT, Microsoft 365, and Backup & Disaster Recovery, we see the whole picture — the site, the email that sends its form submissions, the DNS, the domain renewal, and the backups. That is meaningfully different from a website-only agency that has no visibility into your infrastructure.
What's included
Core & plugin updates
Controlled, tested updates — never blind auto-updates on production.
Security monitoring
Malware scans, file-integrity checks, and admin MFA enforcement.
Off-site backups
Versioned backups with tested restores, not just "the host has one".
Uptime monitoring
Real-time alerts when the site or SSL certificate is failing.
Bundled content edits
Text changes, image swaps, new sections, and blog publishing.
Broken-link checks
Automated crawls to catch dead links, missing images, and 404s.
Renewal reminders
SSL, domain, and hosting renewals tracked and communicated up front.
Small design tweaks
Section adjustments, colour, and layout refinements without a full redesign.
Who it's for
- Businesses without a dedicated web person
- Owners who inherited a site nobody currently supports
- Companies whose original developer has moved on
- Sites built on WordPress, headless CMS, or hosted platforms
- Anyone tired of unpredictable one-off invoices for small changes
Common problems we solve
- Contact form silently broken for weeks
- Site down and nobody notices until a customer complains
- Expired SSL blocking visitors in Chrome
- Plugin vulnerabilities getting exploited
- No backup, no way to roll back a bad change
Why Nickel City Tech Solutions
- Local Sudbury team — same-day communication
- Fixed monthly cost, not surprise invoices
- Bundled with Managed IT and hosting for one accountable partner
- Real backups with tested restores, not host-only snapshots
- Monthly report showing exactly what we did
- Honest about what a site needs — no upsell theatre
Frequently asked questions
What does website maintenance actually cover?
Regular content updates, plugin and theme patching, core WordPress updates, uptime monitoring, SSL and domain renewal reminders, security scans, off-site backups, broken-link checks, form and analytics verification, and light SEO housekeeping. We handle the technical side so your team can focus on the business.
How often do you update the site?
Security patches are applied on a predictable schedule — typically monthly, and immediately for critical vulnerabilities. Content and copy changes are turned around within a defined SLA based on your plan. You get a monthly report so you can see exactly what changed.
Do you support sites you did not build?
Yes. We start with a maintenance audit: hosting, DNS, backups, plugin health, security, and performance. If the site is safe to maintain we take over. If it is too fragile — orphaned custom code, dead plugins, unpatched core — we tell you honestly and propose either hardening or a rebuild.
Do you back up the website?
Yes. We keep off-site, versioned backups with test restores. Because we also run Backup & Disaster Recovery for Managed IT clients, the same discipline applies to your website.
What happens if the site goes down?
Uptime monitoring alerts us. For managed maintenance clients we begin triage immediately — hosting, DNS, SSL, or application layer — and communicate status until the site is back. Serious outages follow our Emergency IT Support workflow.
Can maintenance be bundled with hosting?
Yes. Many clients bundle Website Hosting & Maintenance so hosting, patching, backup, and updates are one predictable monthly cost.
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