Care plans for small-business websites
A Vellero care plan is a monthly subscription that keeps a small-business website fast, secure, and up to date. One flat fee covers plugin updates, security patches, speed monitoring, small content changes, and quarterly performance reviews. Tiers start at $300 per month.
Overview
What the plan covers
A Vellero care plan is a monthly subscription that keeps a website fast, secure, and up to date. It covers the work that quietly breaks a small-business site if nobody is watching — security patches missed, plugin updates that collide, slow-creeping page-speed regressions, a Google Business Profile that stops getting posts. One flat monthly fee, no surprise invoices. The practical upshot for a busy operator: the site keeps showing up in searches, the contact form keeps working, and someone other than you is watching it.
Tiers and pricing
Two tiers: Standard at $300 per month covers weekly updates, uptime monitoring, a monthly performance report, a quarterly schema and SEO audit, and up to an hour of small content changes per month. Priority at $500 per month adds a 48-hour SLA on breakages, up to three hours of content changes, and monthly (rather than quarterly) audits.
Cancellation and inherited sites
Care plans are month-to-month. Thirty days notice to cancel either side — the site keeps working, the owner just takes on the updates themselves or hands them to someone else. Care plans are available for Vellero-built sites by default, and for sites built elsewhere after a one-time handover audit (typically $400–$600).
- Weekly security and plugin updates
- Continuous uptime monitoring
- Monthly performance + Core Web Vitals report
- Quarterly schema + SEO audit
- Small content changes included (<1 hour per month on Standard, <3 hours on Priority)
- Priority-tier: 48-hour SLA on breakages
Who it’s for
- — Vellero-built sites (default)
- — Sites built elsewhere that need ongoing maintenance + a real contact
Lead time
Ongoing — starts day of site launch for Vellero-built sites.
How it works, end to end.
- 01
Handover audit
One-time review of current site state, security, performance.
- 02
Monthly cadence
Regular updates + content changes as requested.
- 03
Quarterly review
Written report + planning call on what to ship next.
- What does a Vellero website cost?
- Most builds run $4,000 to $8,000, with the range depending on page count and any custom features. The price is quoted flat at the start — not hourly — so you know the total before we begin.
- Is there a payment plan?
- 50% to begin, 50% at launch is the standard. For larger builds, three instalments can be arranged on request.
- Do you charge for revisions during the build?
- No — the fixed quote includes two rounds of feedback on design and two on the built site. Additional rounds past that are billed at a flat hourly rate, disclosed up front.
- Do you have a cheaper option for smaller businesses?
- Not currently. Vellero builds at a mid-market price point because the engineering baseline — schema, speed, local SEO — takes the same amount of time on a small site as a big one. A proper custom build starts at $4,000.
- How fast do you respond if something breaks?
- Priority plan: 48-hour SLA on breakages with a priority inbox. Standard plan: best-effort response within two business days. Most issues never get that far because uptime and security monitoring catches them first.
- Can you maintain a site you did not build?
- Usually. An initial one-off audit ($400-600) covers everything the care plan needs to know about the existing site. After that, the monthly fee applies as normal.