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The site is hacked or defaced on a Maintenance site? The fix, scoped

The site is hacked or defaced on a maintenance site - the symptom, why it happens, the scoped fix and what it costs. Published bands, written quote in two days.

The symptom

A hack costs more than the fix: blacklisting, lost trust and a recovery done twice because the first one missed the backdoor. On a maintenance build the pattern is recognisable from the outside: the money pages exist, the business is real, and the site is quietly failing at the one job it was bought for.

Why it happens on Maintenance specifically

Websites decay silently: unapplied updates, expired certificates, plugins drifting out of security support, backups nobody has tested. A maintenance retainer makes decay somebody\u2019s actual job, with monitoring that catches problems before visitors do, and small fixes included rather than invoiced into oblivion., Retainers cover one site or a small portfolio.

That is also exactly why the fix is scoped rather than guessed: the maintenance work here starts from the live site, names the causes in writing, and prices the repair before touching anything.

The fix path

  1. A written triage: what is actually broken, what it costs to leave it, what the repair touches.
  2. The scoped fix on the Maintenance service page’s own terms - $150–1.5k/mo, Ongoing.
  3. Preventive wiring after the repair, so the same problem does not get a second invoice: maintenance, performance and monitoring as standing discipline.

What it costs

Every repair is priced against the published rate bands and itemised in the cost calculator. The estimate is instant; the written quote lands in two days, free, whether or not you hire.