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Website maintenance: what support includes and what it costs
A site without maintenance ages like a car without servicing: small glitches first, then a hack or downtime on the worst possible day.
What maintenance includes
Platform and plugin updates, backups, uptime monitoring, domain and SSL renewals, security hardening, plus content edits and minor design changes.
Formats and pricing
Hourly one-off fixes (200–500 thousand UZS per hour in Tashkent) or a monthly retainer with guaranteed response time at 1–4 million UZS. For e-commerce and ad-driven sites the retainer nearly always pays for itself.
Signs you need it now
No updates for over a year, no fresh backups, nobody to make edits, original developer unreachable — any one of these is reason to act before the first incident.