After your site launches
Two paths after launch day.
Once your site goes live you have a choice: stay on a Care plan and let me handle the technical side, or take ownership of everything and run it yourself. Here is what each one actually involves.
Your site lives on a fast static host used by serious businesses worldwide. Your domain stays in your name, with whoever you registered it through.
The question is never who owns your site — that is always you. The question is who handles the technical side: hosting, DNS problems, broken integrations, certificate renewals, and third-party updates breaking your forms or maps. Me, or you.
Here are both options, laid out honestly. Pick whichever fits.
Choose at launch, switch later if needed
Pick your path.
Three supported plans and one do-it-yourself route. Nothing here is a lock-in, and every one of them leaves you owning the site.
Hosting Only
$100/mo
- Hosting and SSL
- DNS support
- Bug fixes when things break
- Browser compatibility checks, quarterly
- Annual content review call
- No content edits or profile work
Care
$200/mo
- Everything in Hosting Only, plus:
- One hour of edits per month — photos, copy, hours, services
- Monthly Google Business Profile post
- Quarterly site health check
- Booking calendar maintenance
- 48-hour response time
Care+ Growth
$350/mo
- Everything in Care, plus:
- Two hours of edits per month
- Biweekly profile posts
- Monthly SEO check
- Review response writing
- 24-hour priority response
Self-host
$0/mo
- Site transferred to your own hosting account
- Final site files delivered
- DNS pointed at your new account
- No hosting support after handoff
- No content edits or bug fixes
- One-off help at $150/hr
Plans are set up at launch, or any time after. There is no minimum term and no cancellation fee, so you can start on one, move up, move down, or stop entirely as the business changes. Full pricing lists every plan alongside the build sizes.
What is actually different
Side by side.
| After launch | Hosting Only $100/mo | Care $200/mo | Care+ Growth $350/mo | Self-host $0/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| You own your domain | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| You own the site files | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hosting, SSL, uptime | Included | Included | Included | On you |
| Bug fixes and integration repairs | Included | Included | Included | On you |
| DNS and email setup help | Included | Included | Included | On you |
| Content edits per month | — | One hour | Two hours | — |
| Google Business Profile posts | — | Monthly | Biweekly | — |
| Site health check | Yearly | Quarterly | Quarterly | On you |
| SEO check and review writing | — | — | Monthly | — |
| Response time | Best effort | 48 hours | 24 hours, priority | $150/hr only |
| Switch plans later | Anytime | Anytime | Anytime | Rejoin Care anytime |
Read this before you choose
Straight talk on self-hosting.
Who is the right fit for self-hosting?
People who already understand DNS, can read HTML without panicking, and would rather save the monthly fee than have someone on call. If that is you, self-hosting is genuinely a fine choice. If it is not you, a Care plan saves you the headache.
What happens if I self-host and something breaks?
You fix it, hire someone, or call me hourly at $150/hr. I will not be monitoring your site or notifying you about issues. That is not part of self-hosting. Once you take ownership, you own the problems too.
What about updating my hours, photos, or services?
That is on you under self-hosting. The site files are plain HTML, editable in any text editor, but I will not be making changes for you unless you book hourly work. Care plans include one to two hours of edits per month, which is what most clients actually use.
Can I start on Care, then switch to self-host later?
Yes. Care plans cancel any time. When you cancel, I transfer everything to your own hosting account and you continue from there. Many clients run Care for the first year while they get comfortable, then move to self-host once they understand how everything works. That is a reasonable path.
Still deciding. That is normal.
Most people are not sure on day one. Book a free 20-minute call and we will talk through your situation, with no pressure to decide before you are ready.