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Who looks after it once it's built?

Websites don't fail suddenly. They rot quietly, over about three years, while everyone assumes somebody else is watching.

Stewardr runs monthly website care plans for businesses across Navi Mumbai, Mumbai and Thane: updates, daily backups, security patching, uptime monitoring, small content changes and a plain monthly report. Month to month, so staying is a choice rather than a contract.

What rot looks like

Nothing breaks on the day it stops being maintained

It happens over years, and each step looks harmless on its own.

The expensive version of this isn't the website going down. It's the six months before anyone realises the contact form stopped sending emails.

What a care plan covers

Updates and patching

Core, plugins and dependencies kept current, tested before they go live.

Daily backups

Held off-site, and restorable: a backup nobody has ever tested isn't a backup.

Uptime monitoring

We find out the site is down before your customer calls to tell you.

Security

SSL renewal, hardening, access control, and a written plan for when something goes wrong.

Small changes

Text, prices, photos, a new staff member. Included rather than quoted for each time.

Monthly report

Visitors, enquiries, what changed, what needs attention. Two minutes to read.

Why it's monthly

Annual maintenance contracts are common in India and they suit the agency more than the client. A month's notice, everything handed over, done, no exit fee and no gap where the site quietly stops being watched.

If you'd rather run it yourself, that's genuinely fine too. We'll hand over everything and show whoever's taking it on how it works. Some businesses have someone in-house who can handle it, and in that case a care plan is money you don't need to spend.

Want to know what state yours is in?

The audit covers security, backups, SSL and how long it's been since anything was updated.

Questions

What people ask about this

What does website maintenance cost in India?

Care plans in the Indian market typically run from a few thousand rupees a month for a small brochure site to considerably more for e-commerce or custom applications. What matters more than the number is what's actually included, some AMCs cover only hosting and nothing else.

What's the difference between hosting and maintenance?

Hosting is the server your site sits on. Maintenance is somebody making sure the site on that server still works, is up to date, is backed up and hasn't been broken into. Paying for hosting alone is very common and leaves you with nobody watching.

Do I really need daily backups?

You need backups you can restore. Daily is a sensible default because it caps how much you'd lose. The more important question is whether anyone has ever tested restoring one, plenty of businesses discover their backups were failing silently only when they need them.

Who maintains my website after it's built?

If nobody has been named, the honest answer is nobody. This is the single most common gap we find: the site was built well, handed over, and then left. Whoever it is, us, another agency, or someone in your team, it needs to be a named person with the logins.

Can I cancel the plan?

One month's notice, everything is handed over, and that's the end of it. No exit fee, no interruption. Plans are monthly by design so that staying is a choice.