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Hosting & care · Lake & McHenry CountyWebsite hosting and maintenance. We stand watch after launch.
Fast hosting, daily backups, security updates, uptime checks around the clock and the edits you send us, for $49 a month. Month to month, and your site and data stay yours either way.
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The boring parts of a website, handled.
A website isn’t finished at launch. Something has to keep it online, patched and current. On Standing Watch, that’s us.
Fast, secure hosting with SSL
Your site served over HTTPS from a fast hosting network, with the padlock browsers look for. No server for you to rent or update.
Daily backups
A copy every day, so a bad change or a bad day can be undone.
Security updates
We keep what runs your site patched, so it stays safe for you and the people who visit it.
Uptime monitoring 24/7
If your site goes down, the alert comes to us, not to a customer trying to call you.
Content edits done for you
A couple of changes a month: new hours, a new photo, a price, a line of text. Email or text us and we make it.
Cancel anytime
Month to month. If you leave, your site and data stay yours, and you get your website files.
Keep it running, or get it found too.
Both are month to month. No contract, cancel anytime, and your site and data stay yours either way.
Standing Watch
Month to month · cancel anytime
- Fast, secure hosting + SSL
- Daily backups & security updates
- Content edits done for you — a couple of changes a month
- Uptime monitoring 24/7
- Cancel anytime — your site and data stay yours
Running Calls
Month to month · cancel anytime
- Everything in Standing Watch
- Google Business Profile posts every month — your jobs in front of local searchers
- Review requests set up, and every review answered
- Text us job photos — we get them on your site and your profile
- A new seasonal service page each quarter, timed to your busy season
- Quarterly listing check across Google, BBB, Angi and Yelp so your details still match
- Monthly numbers from Google — calls, direction requests, clicks, and the searches that found you
Selling products? Supply Line keeps a store stocked and selling: see online stores. Want ads too? Box Alarm needs a Salty-built site or Standing Watch, so the landing page and tracking are ours to run. Want the local SEO side explained? How our local SEO works.
Website maintenance cost, in plain numbers.
| Option | What you get | Typical cost |
|---|---|---|
| Do it yourselfA builder plan, and your evenings | Hosting on the builder. Backups, updates and every edit are yours to do. | The builder’s plan, plus your time. Wix vs. custom, compared |
| A maintenance companySmall to medium business site | Depends on the plan: often updates and backups, sometimes edits and hosting. | $50–$500 a month, per GoDaddy |
| Standing WatchSalty Web Co | Hosting, SSL, daily backups, security updates, 24/7 uptime monitoring and a couple of edits a month. | $49 a month, month to month |
Source: GoDaddy, “Website maintenance cost” (2026), which puts small to medium business sites at $50 to $500 a month and online stores at $300 to $1,000. What a plan covers varies, so compare what’s included, not just the price. For what a whole website costs, see our website cost guide.
Built by us, or by someone else.
A site we build
Add Standing Watch to any build and it runs from launch day. Nothing to move, nothing to set up.
A site someone else built
Send us the address. We’ll tell you whether we can host and care for it as it is, or whether moving it over with Search & Rescue makes more sense.
A web person who stopped answering
It happens. As long as you can get to your domain, we can usually get your site back under control.
You’d rather not think about it
That’s the job. You run your business; we keep the site up and current.
Before you call, the straight answers.
How much does website maintenance cost?
What’s the difference between hosting and maintenance?
How many edits are included?
Is there a contract?
What happens to my site if I cancel?
Can you host a website you didn’t build?
Do I need a care plan to run ads with you?
Tell us about your site. We’ll keep it running.
Paste your website address in the last box if you have one. We’ll tell you which plan fits and what it costs, before any work starts.
- Send this form. Two minutes, no card, no commitment.
- We respond within one business day and look at your site.
- You see the plan and price before anything starts. Month to month.
Rather talk? Call or text (224) 225-9268.