Salmon Arm, BC · Website Care Plans
Website care plans for Salmon Arm — secure and performing before the tourist season starts.
Shuswap businesses have a short, high-revenue season. A slow or broken website during the summer peak costs real bookings and sales — and security vulnerabilities that accumulate over winter are the most common cause of site problems when you most need it to work.
Website care plans keep your site secure, fast, and current without you managing it — monthly updates, daily backups, security monitoring, and content edits included. Security patches applied before the season, not during it.
What's included every month.
Every care plan covers the fundamentals that keep a Salmon Arm business website running reliably. Higher-tier plans add content edits, security scanning, and faster response times.
Software & plugin updates
Outdated software is the primary way business websites get compromised. Every month I update your CMS, plugins, and dependencies, test that nothing broke, and document what changed. Security patches applied before the tourist season starts — not during it.
Daily backups
Your site is backed up daily to an offsite location. If something goes wrong — a bad update, a host outage, an accidental deletion — restore from backup, not from memory. Critical for seasonal businesses that cannot afford downtime during their peak revenue window.
Uptime & speed monitoring
Automated monitoring checks your site is up and loading fast every few minutes. You find out about downtime from me, not from a customer complaint — especially important during Shuswap summer when traffic spikes and visitors are actively searching for local businesses.
Security checks
Monthly security scans, malware checks, and SSL certificate review. Most attacks on small business sites are automated — monitoring catches them before they affect visitors or your search rankings.
Content edits
Need to update summer hours, add a seasonal menu, swap a photo, or promote an event? Included edits cover the minor changes that pile up and never get done during a busy season. No ticket system, no invoice — send me a message.
Monthly report
A short email each month confirming what was done, your uptime percentage, and any issues found and resolved. No surprises, no mystery charges.
Choose a plan.
All plans include the one-time onboarding fee of $150 for the initial audit, documentation, backup configuration, and monitoring setup. Monthly billing, no lock-in.
Essential
$99 / month
Best for
Informational sites — trades, restaurants, and service businesses that don't update their site often but need it to stay secure and online through the summer season.
Includes
Monthly software updates, daily backups, uptime monitoring, SSL monitoring, monthly report
Not included
Content edits, security scans, priority response
Standard
$199 / month
Best for
Active sites that get seasonal content updates — new hours, event listings, seasonal menus, and staff changes before the Shuswap tourist season opens.
Includes
Everything in Essential, plus security scans, 30 min/month content edits, same-week response time
Not included
Same-day response, custom development work
Growth
$349 / month
Best for
Lead-generation and eCommerce sites that treat the website as a core revenue channel — Shuswap tourism businesses, accommodation operators, and any business where site downtime means lost bookings.
Includes
Everything in Standard, plus 60 min/month content edits, priority same-day response, quarterly performance review and recommendations
Not included
New feature builds (quoted separately)
What's not included.
Care plans cover the ongoing work of keeping an existing site healthy. They do not include new page builds, section redesigns, or new feature development — anything that changes what the site does rather than maintaining what it already does.
If you need a new landing page, an updated booking flow, or a redesigned section ahead of the season, that work is scoped and quoted as a separate project. Most care plan clients have at least one project per year — it is a natural part of keeping a site effective, not an upsell.
Who this is for.
- —Salmon Arm and Shuswap tourism businesses whose website is their main booking channel and cannot afford downtime during the peak summer season
- —Seasonal businesses — lake rental operators, experience companies, accommodation providers — that go quiet in winter and need the site ready and secure when activity picks up in spring
- —Salmon Arm trades — HVAC, plumbers, electricians — whose website is their main lead source and whose busy season coincides with summer when updates and security patches most need to be current
- —Business owners who update their own site now but fall behind between seasons and want someone to handle the ongoing maintenance reliably
- —Any Salmon Arm business that launched a new website and wants to keep it performing the way it did on launch day — fast, secure, and current through every season
Frequently asked questions.
Do you only maintain sites you built?
No. I take on maintenance for any site built on WordPress, Webflow, Squarespace, or a custom Next.js/React build. The onboarding process involves a short audit to document the stack and flag any existing issues. If the site has serious technical debt or security problems, I will flag them before we start.
What happens if my site goes down during the busy summer season?
Uptime monitoring alerts me automatically. For Standard and Growth plans I respond same-week or same-day respectively. If the issue is hosting-related I liaise with your host on your behalf. For Shuswap tourism businesses, peak season downtime is a priority — Growth plan clients get same-day response year-round.
Can I get security patches applied before the tourist season starts?
Yes — and this is one of the most common requests from seasonal Shuswap businesses. On any plan I can schedule a pre-season security and update sweep in April or May so the site is clean and current before summer traffic peaks. Just let me know during onboarding.
Can I upgrade or downgrade my plan?
Yes, on your next billing cycle. No lock-in. Most Salmon Arm clients start on Essential and move to Standard once they realise how often they want small seasonal content changes made — hours updates, event listings, new photos — without having to manage them personally.
Does the care plan include hosting?
No — hosting is a separate cost paid directly to your hosting provider. If you are on slow or unreliable hosting, I can recommend better options and help migrate as a one-time project.
Is there a setup fee?
There is a one-time onboarding fee of $150 that covers the initial site audit, documentation, backup configuration, and monitoring setup. This applies to all plans.
The 30-minute call covers which plan fits your site, what the onboarding looks like, and whether there are any existing issues worth addressing before the next busy season.
Book a 30-minute call →Serving Salmon Arm and the Shuswap. No lock-in, no ticket system.