Opulence.
Web, Webshop & App Development

Maintenance, Hosting & Ongoing Development

A retained team for updates, security patches, performance and feature work with an SLA.

Websites and applications need looking after. Dependencies age, platforms change and the business keeps asking for improvements. A retained team gives you predictable capacity for all of it, with response times written down and a monthly record of what changed.

Hosting runs in your own cloud accounts, configured and monitored by us, so costs are transparent and nothing is held hostage.

How we're different
  • Retained hours roll into real improvements, with a backlog you prioritise.
  • Security updates are tested on staging before production, every time.
  • The monthly change log means you always know what was done and why.
Who this is for
  • A group with dozens of sites and applications built by different agencies and no single owner.
  • An airline or retailer whose web estate must stay up through peak trading and disruption events.
  • A company whose original build partner has gone and whose platform has not been patched since.
Signals you need this now
  • Dependencies are years out of date and the risk is known but unowned.
  • Small changes wait weeks in a queue and large ones never start.
  • Outages are discovered by customers or on social media.
  • Hosting spend rises every month and nobody can explain the bill.
Scope of work

What is included.

  1. 01

    Hosting and infrastructure

    Managed hosting in your accounts with backups, CDN, monitoring and scaling.

  2. 02

    Security patching

    Dependencies, plugins and platforms kept current with tested updates.

  3. 03

    Performance monitoring

    Uptime, Core Web Vitals and error tracking with alerts and fixes.

  4. 04

    Feature development

    A monthly allocation of design and development time for improvements.

  5. 05

    Support

    A named contact, ticket system and agreed response times.

Method

Four steps, no surprises.

  1. 01

    Onboard

    Technical review, documentation and monitoring setup.

  2. 02

    Stabilise

    Clear outstanding issues and bring dependencies current.

  3. 03

    Run

    Patching, monitoring and support to SLA.

  4. 04

    Improve

    Monthly planning of feature work from the backlog.

How the engagement runs

From first meeting to steady state.

  1. 01Weeks 1 to 2

    Onboard

    Technical review, documentation, monitoring setup and an urgent-issue list.

  2. 02Weeks 3 to 6

    Stabilise

    Outstanding issues cleared and dependencies brought current on staging, then production.

  3. 03Month 2 onwards

    Run and improve

    Patching, monitoring and support to SLA with monthly planning of feature work from the backlog.

What we measure
  • Uptime and incident response time against the SLA.
  • Age of dependencies and time from patch release to deployment.
  • Retained hours converted into shipped improvements each month.
  • Hosting spend against the agreed baseline.
Who is on the engagement
  • Technical account manager
  • Site reliability engineer
  • Full-stack developers
  • Support engineer
Deliverables
  • SLA and support process.
  • Monitoring dashboards and alerts.
  • Monthly change log.
  • Uptime and performance report.
  • Prioritised improvement backlog.
Engagement terms

Maintenance runs as a monthly retainer sized by the platform and the number of development hours included, with a six-month initial term and month-to-month thereafter. Onboarding is a fixed-scope review of one to two weeks. Hosting runs under your own cloud contracts.

FAQ

Maintenance, Hosting & Ongoing Development, in plain terms.

Yes. We start with a technical review to understand what we are taking on and fix the urgent issues first.

Hours roll over within a quarter, so a quiet month can fund a larger piece of work later.

Yes, as an option for sites and applications where downtime is costly.

Yes, with a month's notice, so capacity follows what the business needs.

Next step

Ready to talk about maintenance, hosting & ongoing development?