Managed Website Servicesin Monterey Bay

Both plans cover the parts that keep a website standing: version-controlled hosting, domain and DNS management, uptime monitoring, SSL, DDoS protection, a global CDN, and a premium email service so form submissions actually reach you. None of it is an add-on or a separate bill. The difference between the plans is changes. On Basic you pay for service requests as they come up. On Standard, content changes are unlimited, with three hours of strategy work included each month.

Yes. Service runs on an annual agreement rather than month to month, which is what holds the monthly rate fixed for the whole year. At the end of the term you decide whether to renew. There is no penalty and no exit fee for choosing not to.

The average build takes two to three weeks. What moves that number is scope and how quickly you can get back to me. Content and approvals are usually the long pole, not the code.

That is most of the work. Send me your URL and I will tell you what I would change first — no charge, and no pitch. If it is worth continuing, the site moves onto managed hosting and I take over the domain, the DNS records, the monitoring and the updates from there.

Yes. Most websites can be migrated and converted without much trouble, whatever they were built on. You keep your content and your domain. What changes is everything underneath — and you stop renting the platform your business sits on.

No. Every site is custom designed — no themes, no page builders, and no stack of plugins covering the gaps. Page builders ship a pile of code you never asked for, and every plugin added on top is another thing that can break. It matters beyond page speed. The structure underneath is what decides whether search engines and AI tools can read your site at all.

Yes. The website is yours, and the domain is registered in your name. While I manage it, the code lives in a GitHub repository and deploys to my Cloudflare account — that is what makes the hosting, the CDN, the SSL and the DDoS protection part of your rate instead of four bills you deal with yourself. If you ever leave, the repository is handed over to you. There is no licence to keep paying for and no proprietary platform underneath it.

I do. Design, development, maintenance and strategy are the same pair of hands, which is why nothing gets lost in a handoff — there is no handoff. Nothing is sent offshore. WebMonterey is Monterey based and Monterey licensed, and when something is easier to talk through in person, we can meet.

Call, text, email, or message the private Signal group I set up for every client — whichever is easiest at the time. There is no support ticket queue and nobody in between. You are messaging me.

Research, consulting, strategy reports, performance reviews and meetings — the thinking rather than the building. It also covers time spent working with your other contractors on your behalf, whether that is an agency, a photographer or whoever handles your advertising. It is three hours a month on the Standard plan, separate from content changes, which are unlimited. Anything past those three hours is billed at the plan's service rate.

Yes, and it often goes that way. A website turns into a web application — booking, a client portal, a dashboard — and from there into automation that handles the repetitive work behind it. It is the same foundation growing rather than a second project starting, which is why moving up is never a rebuild.

It starts with how the site is built. Both read the structure underneath before anything else, and a site buried in page-builder markup gives them very little to work with. Past that it means analytics reviews that say what to change rather than what happened, digital marketing measured against revenue rather than impressions, and a bi-annual performance review on the Standard plan. The difference from hiring an agency separately is that I can go and change the site, rather than sending you a report about it.

Local businesses and nonprofits are the heart of it, and the work has also run out to national and global brands — the clients above include organisations working across the United States and worldwide. Being local is how I work, not a limit on who I work with.