Website maintenance for Irish businesses

A website is a data controller's problem too

Irish businesses that collect enquiries, bookings or orders hold personal data on their sites. Under GDPR, a breach may need to be reported to the Data Protection Commission within 72 hours of becoming aware of it, in cases where it risks people's rights. That clock starts when you know, so detection speed matters.

Maintenance is how you notice sooner. Updates close known holes, monitoring flags odd behaviour, and access logs help you work out what happened. Our website maintenance service is built around that routine.

Irish firms often sell across the border and into the UK, so the same site may be subject to more than one regime. We keep the technical side tidy and your adviser decides on jurisdiction.

What a month of care looks like

The WordPress security checklist lists the hardening steps we apply to WordPress sites.

Care by platform

We tell you on the first call if your platform or hosting is the real problem, since no amount of patching fixes a server that is no longer supported.

Irish points to watch

• The .ie domain is run by the IE Domain Registry. Registrants must show a connection to Ireland, and renewal lapses take sites offline, so we track the expiry date.
• Cookie consent under the ePrivacy rules and GDPR: after a plugin update, banners sometimes reset or tags fire early, so we test the consent flow each month.
• Irish and English content: if your site has a Gaeilge version, we check that language switches and menus survive updates.
• Accessibility: the European Accessibility Act applies from 28 June 2025 to many online services, and WCAG 2.2 AA is the sensible target.
• Prices and VAT: Irish consumer prices include VAT, and plugin changes can alter totals, so we test the checkout on stores.

Your lawyer or data protection adviser decides the legal position. We provide the technical records.

Pricing

Maintenance is billed at $30 an hour. A first clean-up, audit or migration is a fixed project, and projects start at $1,500. Prices are in US dollars. Monthly maintenance plans start from $120 a month (4 hours at $30 an hour), and you can move up or down a block whenever your needs change.

See the maintenance cost guide for what raises or lowers the number.

Hours are agreed ahead of time, and we flag any task that will exceed the block before starting it. Unused time can be rolled into the next month if we agree that in writing.

Working across the Irish day

Ireland is four and a half to five and a half hours behind India, so your morning is our afternoon. Calls run at 9 am to noon Irish time. Routine maintenance takes place in our working day, and you read a summary when you start.

1. ReviewPlatform, plugins, hosting, backups, access.
2. QuoteFixed price for clean-up; hourly plan for care.
3. CareUpdates, monitoring, backups, fixes on a calendar.
4. ReportA short monthly note on work and risks.

Between calls we keep one shared log of every change we make, with the date and the reason. If something looks odd a month later, you can see exactly what was touched and when, and roll it back if needed.