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How much does website maintenance cost in Singapore?
Published WordPress maintenance plans in Singapore run from about S$60 to S$500 a month, and many bill hosting on top. Here is what that money should buy, what costs extra, and how to pick a level you’ll actually use.
Published WordPress maintenance plans in Singapore cost about S$700 to S$6,000 a year, before hosting. The published WordPress maintenance plans we checked on 17 October 2026 ran from S$59 to S$497 a month, and most of them billed hosting separately. Where you land depends on how many hours of changes you need, how fast you need a response, and whether hosting is part of the price.
This guide explains what the money should buy, what usually costs extra, what really happens when maintenance is skipped, and how to compare plans.
Key takeaways
- Published plans cost about S$60 to S$500 a month, and many bill hosting on top.
- Compare what a plan covers, not just its price: hosting, daily backups, security fixes and hacked-site clean-up.
- Critical security fixes shouldn’t wait for the routine update schedule.
- Turn every plan’s allowance into hours a year before you compare.
What does website maintenance actually cover?
Maintenance is the work that keeps a website safe, working and up to date after launch. For a WordPress site, a complete plan covers these jobs:
| Job | What it means | How often |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting and server care | The server your site runs on, monitored and kept patched | All the time |
| Software updates | WordPress, the theme and every plugin, tested so an update doesn’t break a page | From monthly to about once a year, by plan |
| Security fixes | Patching a known weakness once a fix is released | Soon after each fix, not on the routine schedule |
| Backups | A copy of the site and database, stored off the server, that someone can restore | Daily on good plans |
| Security monitoring | Malware scans, a firewall and login protection | All the time |
| Uptime monitoring | An alert when the site goes down | All the time |
| SSL certificate | The https padlock, renewed before it expires | Automatic |
| Licence renewals | Paid plugins and themes kept licensed, so they keep getting updates | Yearly |
| PHP upgrades | Moving the site to a supported version of the language WordPress runs on | Before the old version stops getting security fixes |
| Changes and fixes | Text and image edits, small fixes, a new section | As you ask, from the plan’s hours |
Not every plan includes every line. Comparing plans is mostly a matter of checking which of these rows each one covers, and how often.
What do website maintenance plans cost in Singapore?
Published plans fall into three rough levels, plus doing it yourself. The ranges below come from the plans two Singapore providers list on their websites, checked on 17 October 2026, from the cheapest to the fullest.
| Level | Monthly price | Usually includes |
|---|---|---|
| Do it yourself | Hosting only, from a few dollars a month | Server space; you or someone you hire does the updates, backups and fixes |
| Entry plan | About S$60 to S$150 | Updates, backups, security scans, monitoring and a few small tasks |
| Mid plan | About S$120 to S$300 | More updates and changes, faster response, an hour or so of work a month |
| Full plan | About S$180 to S$500 | Frequent updates, daily backups, performance work, priority response |
Two things make plans hard to compare. Some include hosting and some don’t, so add the hosting bill before you compare. And plans describe their allowance differently: hours a month, hours a year, or a number of “small tasks”. Turn each one into a yearly figure.
How did we work these figures out?
We read the published WordPress maintenance plans of two Singapore providers on 17 October 2026, turned each into a monthly price before hosting and grouped them by what they include. Two providers is a small sample, so treat the ranges as a guide rather than a market survey. Our own prices are from our current plans.
The takeaway
A maintenance plan is worth what it actually covers. Before you compare prices, check whether hosting, daily backups, security fixes and hacked-site clean-up are in it, and how many hours of changes you get in a year.
What is usually included, and what costs extra?
Usually included in a full maintenance plan:
- Software and security updates, and the testing around them
- Backups, and restoring from them when something goes wrong
- Security scans and monitoring
- Small content changes, up to the plan’s hours
- Checking and fixing problems the updates cause
Usually charged on top:
- New pages, new features and redesigns
- Writing copy, and new photos or video
- Moving the site to a new host or a new domain
- Larger fixes beyond the plan’s hours, at an hourly rate
- Search, ads and social media campaigns
- On some plans: hacked-site clean-up, premium licences, or hosting itself
What happens if you skip website maintenance?
Usually nothing dramatic at first. The risk builds quietly, and these are the facts behind it:
- Most security weaknesses are in plugins, not WordPress itself. Patchstack’s State of WordPress Security in 2026 counted 11,334 new vulnerabilities in the WordPress ecosystem in 2025: 91% in plugins, 9% in themes, and 6 in WordPress core.
- Attacks follow disclosure quickly. The same report puts the weighted median time to the first exploit at 5 hours, and 46% of the vulnerabilities had no patch by the time they were made public, which is why a firewall matters as well as updates.
- WordPress only updates itself partly. Minor and security releases of WordPress install in the background, but major releases still need someone to run them, and plugins and themes update only if that has been set up.
- The server software ages too. PHP 8.2 stops receiving security fixes on 31 December 2026, and 8.1 and older already get none (PHP supported versions).
- Singapore’s data protection rules apply to websites. In 2023 the PDPC fined an online retailer S$8,000 for not protecting personal data, and directed it to upgrade its website to a supported software version.
The problems we’re most often asked to fix are quieter than a hack: a contact form that stopped sending leads weeks ago, a plugin that broke after a PHP upgrade, or a paid licence that lapsed, so the plugin stopped getting updates. In October 2026 we moved every site on our servers to PHP 8.4, ahead of PHP 8.2 losing security support at the end of the year.
Should you maintain your website yourself or pay for a plan?
Doing it yourself can work. It suits a small site with few plugins, no customer data and someone on the team who is comfortable with WordPress and has an hour or two each month.
| Do it yourself | Managed plan | |
|---|---|---|
| Yearly cost | Hosting, plus any premium licences and backup tools | One plan fee, sometimes plus hosting |
| Updates | You run them and check the site after each one | Done and checked for you |
| Backups | You set them up and test a restore | Daily, restored for you |
| When it breaks | You find the cause, or pay someone by the hour | Covered by the plan, within its terms |
| Your time | An hour or two every month, more when something breaks | A message when you need a change |
A plan makes more sense when the website brings in leads or sales, holds customer data, or when nobody in-house wants to own the job.
What does a website cost in year one and year two?
Maintenance is easiest to budget as part of the total cost of owning a website. Here is a worked example for an 8-page company website with an enquiry form and three email users. We’ve used our own prices because they are the ones we can vouch for; swap in the figures from your quotes.
| Cost | Year one | Year two |
|---|---|---|
| Website design and build | S$2,800 | S$0 |
| Hosting and maintenance (Standard plan) | Included | S$650 |
| Domain (estimate) | About S$50 | About S$50 |
| Business email: Google Workspace Business Starter, 3 users at S$9.40 a month each, before GST | S$338 | S$338 |
| Total | About S$3,190 | About S$1,040 |
Prices in Singapore dollars. Email is at Google’s list price for Singapore, checked 17 October 2026. Google’s price is before GST, and a one-year commitment costs less.
If you expect more than four hours of changes a year from us, the Professional plan (S$1,130 a year, 8 hours) makes year two about S$1,520. Edits you make yourself from your own ChatGPT or Claude don’t use plan hours.
How do you choose a website maintenance plan?
Start with two questions: how much does the website matter to the business, and how often will it change? Then ask every provider the same things:
- Is hosting included, or billed separately? Where are the servers?
- How often are WordPress and the plugins updated, and is each update checked afterwards?
- How quickly are security fixes applied once they’re released?
- How often are backups taken, where are they stored, and who restores them?
- How many hours of changes are included in a year, and what’s the rate after that?
- If the site is hacked or goes down, is the clean-up included?
- Are premium plugin licences included, and in whose name are they?
- What’s the notice period, and do I get my files and latest backup if I leave?
- Will you take over a site someone else built?
- Are your prices before or after GST?
The answers to 3, 4 and 6 tell you most about a plan. A low monthly price that leaves out backups or clean-up is the expensive option when something goes wrong.
What does Nerb charge for website maintenance?
Our WordPress hosting and maintenance plans cost S$650 to S$2,880 a year, or S$60 to S$259 a month, with hosting included (monthly billing costs a little more than paying yearly):
| Plan | Per year | Hours of changes a year | Software updates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | S$650 | 4 | Typically once a year |
| Professional | S$1,130 | 8 | 2 to 4 times a year |
| Prime | S$1,950 | 20 | 4 to 6 times a year |
| Exclusive | S$2,880 | 30 | Monthly |
Every plan includes managed hosting, daily off-site backups, SSL, premium plugin licences, malware and vulnerability scanning, help when the site is down or hacked, and critical or high-risk security fixes applied as soon as possible, within 14 days of the fix’s release. You can also make content edits from ChatGPT, Claude or WhatsApp; edits from your own AI app use no plan hours (how it works). Nerb is not GST-registered, so no GST is added.
If your site is already slow or has been hacked, start with a Speed & Security tune-up from S$800. Building a new site? Year one of hosting and maintenance comes with our websites and online stores; see the ecommerce cost guide for what a store costs to run.
We’ve built 300+ websites since 2011, and we take over WordPress sites whoever built them. See all our prices.
Questions people also ask
Is website maintenance the same as hosting?
No. Hosting is the server space your site runs on. Maintenance is the work on the site itself: updates, backups, security and fixes. Cheap hosting usually covers only the first, so ask who does the second.
How often should a WordPress website be updated?
Security fixes should go on as soon as they’re released, whatever the plan. Routine plugin and theme updates can be batched, from monthly to a few times a year, as long as each batch is checked afterwards. A busy online store needs more frequent updates than a brochure site.
Can I pay for website maintenance monthly?
Most providers offer monthly billing, and yearly billing is usually cheaper. Our plans are from S$60 a month, or from S$650 a year paid annually.
Can you maintain a website another agency built?
Usually, yes. A good provider checks the site first, moves it to its own hosting if needed and then takes over updates, backups and security. We do this for WordPress sites on any host.
