Once your site goes live, you've got a choice: stay on a Care plan and let me handle the technical side, or take ownership of everything and run it yourself. Here's what each one actually involves.
Your site lives on Netlify — a fast, modern hosting platform used by serious businesses worldwide. Your domain stays in your name, with whoever you registered it through (GoDaddy, Namecheap, wherever).
The question isn't who owns your site — that's always you. The question is who handles the technical stuff: hosting, DNS issues, broken integrations, SSL renewals, software updates breaking your forms or maps. Me, or you.
Here's both options, laid out honestly. Pick whichever fits.
People who already understand DNS, can read HTML without panicking, and would rather save the monthly fee than have someone on call. If that's you, self-hosting is genuinely a fine choice. If it's not you, a Care plan saves you the headache.
You fix it, hire someone, or call me hourly at $125/hr. I won't be monitoring your site or notifying you about issues. That's not part of self-hosting. Once you take ownership, you own the problems too.
That's on you under self-hosting. The site files are plain HTML — editable in any text editor — but I won't be making changes for you unless you book hourly work. Care plans include 1–2 hours of edits per month, which is what most clients actually use.
Yes. Care plans cancel any time — when you cancel, I transfer everything to your Netlify account and you continue from there. Many clients try Care for the first year while they get comfortable, then move to self-host once they understand how everything works. That's a reasonable path.
That's fair. Most people aren't sure on day one. Book a free 20-minute call and we'll talk through your situation — no pressure to decide before you're ready.