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How much does website maintenance cost per year

The domain and hosting are only part of the bill: shorter TLS certificates and the end of PHP 8.2 support bring work in 2027 on dates someone else has set

DualFroz - VulCode CEODualFroz - VulCode CEO·20 October 2026·2 min read

The domain, hosting and email are fixed items, with their usual ranges in our post on what a website costs. A 2027 budget also has to cover work on dates set by neither the company nor its developer, but by the PHP project and the certificate industry.

Dates that bring work to a website in 2027

ChangeFromWhat it means for the site
PHP 8.2 gets no more security fixes1 January 2027a move to a newer version and a test of the site; WordPress recommends PHP 8.3 or newer
Let's Encrypt issues 64-day certificates by default10 February 2027Let's Encrypt asks you to check that renewal automation handles shorter lifetimes
Every public TLS certificate valid for 100 days at most15 March 2027a year of cover takes at least four certificates, so renewal has to run on its own

What a maintenance plan covers

Our monitoring checks the site every 30 seconds and the certificate hourly, raising an alarm once fewer than 21 days remain before expiry. Each nightly backup sends a signal, and if none arrives for 26 hours, the monitor reports an outage. On top come library updates with security fixes, backups checked by restoring them and small changes without a separate quote. Hosting runs with us or on your own account, for example on AWS, GCP or Vercel.

Support and monitoring after acceptance are included in the project price: 90 days as standard, 30 for very small orders, 180 or 365 for larger projects. The plan for the months after that starts from PLN 99 a month, and we calculate the exact figure for the project, as it depends on traffic, the number of services and the changes you plan.

Scope, requests and the warranty are on our website and app maintenance page.