What a £50/month website actually includes

£50 a month is a fair question to be skeptical of. It's worth being specific about what's actually included, because "a website" can mean almost anything depending on who's selling it.

What's in the Basic plan

• A responsive, professionally designed WordPress site — not a drag-and-drop template left as-is, but a build styled around your business, that works properly on a phone as well as a desktop.
• Managed hosting and SSL — the site lives on infrastructure we monitor, with a valid certificate kept current automatically. You never see a renewal notice or a "your certificate expired" support ticket.
• Core updates and maintenance — WordPress core and the plugins your site depends on get patched as updates ship, particularly security fixes. This is the part people underestimate: an unmaintained WordPress site is a liability, and maintaining one properly takes ongoing attention, not a one-off setup.
• Contact and enquiry setup — a working contact flow from day one, not a form that quietly emails nowhere.

Why monthly, not a one-off fee

A website isn't a purchase you make once and forget — it's infrastructure that needs hosting, security patching, and the occasional fix as browsers and plugins change underneath it. Pricing it as a one-off build usually means one of two things happens later: you're quoted separately for hosting and maintenance anyway, often at a worse rate because it's no longer part of a relationship, or the site gets left unpatched and eventually breaks or gets compromised. Folding it into one monthly plan means the incentive is aligned — the site staying online, fast, and secure is our job for as long as you're paying for it, not a separate problem you inherit after handover.

There's also a one-off £100 setup fee alongside the first month, covering the initial build work, and every plan is a 12-month minimum term — disclosed upfront on /pricing, not a surprise in the small print.

When Basic isn't enough

If you need to sell products directly rather than just generate enquiries, that's the Business plan (WooCommerce). If your requirements go beyond what WordPress can reasonably do, that's Premium. Basic is specifically for businesses whose website's job is to look credible, explain what they do, and make it easy to get in touch — which, for most service businesses, is the whole job.

Questions about what's covered for your specific case? Get in touch — happy to talk through it before you commit to anything.