The Maintenance Racket
A significant portion of the revenue for Anchorage web design agencies comes from “Maintenance Plans.” For $150 to $500 a month, they promise to back up your database, update your WordPress core, and patch your plugins.
They are charging you a premium to manage the inherent fragility of the technology they sold you.
Treating the Symptom, Not the Disease
WordPress requires constant maintenance because it is fundamentally insecure. If you don’t update a plugin within days of a patch release, your site will likely be compromised by automated bots.
The Zero-Maintenance Promise of Edge-Native Architecture
When we build a static, edge-native website using Astro, the maintenance burden drops to near zero.
- There is no database to back up.
- There are no PHP plugins to update.
- There is no core CMS software exposed to the public internet that requires emergency security patches.
We do offer Retainer and Care plans, but our time is spent on growth, content strategy, and feature development—not babysitting fragile plugins. Invest in infrastructure that runs securely by default, so your budget can go toward marketing, not maintenance.