Care for the systems built here.
A WordPress care plan: updates, security, backups and expiry dates, watched every month, with a short note on what happened. Upkeep covers only systems BespokeForge built or rebuilt, so nothing it looks after is a stranger.
Managed Services: Upkeep never takes one of the three places.
What happened this month
- Core and six plugins updated, render checked
- Security patches applied
- Backup restored to a test copy
- Certificate valid, domain renews in 41 days
- No downtime this month
€95 a monthor €950 a year
Six things a site needs and nobody remembers.
Updates
Platform and dependency updates, with a render check after.
Security
Monitoring and patching.
Uptime
Monitored, so a person knows when the site stops answering.
Backups
Offsite, with a restore that has been tested.
Expiry dates
Certificate and domain expiry, watched.
The note
A short note every month, including the months when nothing needed doing.
In use on Lampstand.The site went public in September 2026 and has been on Upkeep since: updated, watched, and a note every month.
Read the case studyWhat Upkeep does not cover.
Each of these needs a judgement call, so each is quoted first or belongs to Operate.
- Content changes
- New pages, features or design work
- Server and hosting management
- Performance and SEO work
- Same-day incident response
- Anything needing a judgement call per request
Care, or the engineer who runs it.
Upkeep keeps a finished system safe. Operate keeps the engineer on it, server included.
| Compared | Upkeep | Operate |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Care for a finished system | The engineer who runs it, kept on the system |
| Server and hosting | Not included | Included |
| Changes and new work | Quoted first | Within the agreed scope |
| Incidents | Restored from backup, explained in the note | Handled in a written window |
| Takes one of the three places | No | Yes |
| Price | €95 a month, or €950 a year | From €1,200 a month |
Questions this usually comes down to
Start here
Upkeep starts with a site built here.
Upkeep follows a build or a rebuild here, and every build starts with the audit: €450, fixed, after a free 25-minute call.