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More Than a Website: What Comes With Our Hosting Retainer

The £300 per month retainer we offer is genuinely worth running through line by line, because most South Devon businesses comparing quotes don't know what to compare. A cheap hosting bill from a faceless reseller plus a separate maintenance retainer plus a separate SEO retainer plus annual licences for the plugins that actually do useful work — added up properly, the alternative is rarely cheaper, and it's almost never simpler.

Here's what sits inside our retainer at no additional cost.

UpdraftPlus — proper backups

UpdraftPlus is the most widely deployed backup plugin in the WordPress ecosystem, and we include the developer licence for every site we host. Backups run nightly, are stored off-site, and retain thirty days of restore points. A bad plugin update, a deleted page, a hacked admin login — any of those can be rolled back in minutes. Without backups, the same situations are days of work and sometimes irrecoverable losses.

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Gravity Forms — forms that do real work

A standard contact form catches names, emails and a free-text message, and that's the end of it. Gravity Forms — the developer licence is included on every site — turns forms into actual business systems.

  • Trades and contractors can build detailed quote-request forms that capture job type, postcode, photos and access notes upfront.
  • Cafés and restaurants can take table bookings or catering enquiries with date, time and party-size logic.
  • Independent retailers can run pre-orders, customisation requests, and payment-on-form for deposits.
  • Membership businesses can take applications, charge joining fees, and route the right reply to the right inbox.

Multi-page forms, conditional logic, file uploads, automatic email notifications — all included.

Gravitykit — the Gravity Forms extensions

The Gravitykit suite extends what Gravity Forms can do. We include the licence so you get GravityView (turning form entries into searchable directories or dashboards), Math, Calculations, Charts, and the URL Modifier — useful for tracking which marketing campaign produced which enquiry. Gravity SMTP is also included, which means form notifications actually arrive rather than getting eaten by spam filters.

Divi 5 — the page builder

Every site we build runs on Divi 5, the rebuilt fifth-generation release of the Divi page builder for WordPress. The change in version 5 was performance — leaner front-end output, smaller CSS payload, faster Largest Contentful Paint. Combined with our hosting it gives sites the 95+ Google PageSpeed scores that actually feed into local search rankings. The Elegant Themes developer licence is on every site we build, including the full Divi theme library and the Bloom and Monarch plugins for opt-ins and social.

Restrict Content Pro — for membership sites

If you want to run a paid members-only area, a course, a gated resource library, or a recurring-revenue model, Restrict Content Pro is the tool we use. Tiered access, recurring billing through Stripe, free and paid tiers in parallel, and clean integration with Gravity Forms for application flows. The licence is included.

Peeayecreative — specialist Divi modules

For sites that need the visual edge — animated headers, custom popovers, advanced footer patterns, scroll-triggered effects — we use the developer plugins from Peeayecreative. The licences are part of the retainer, which means you get capabilities most agencies charge separately for.

What it adds up to

Counted at retail, the licences above run to several hundred pounds a year — UpdraftPlus, Gravity Forms, Gravitykit, Elegant Themes, Restrict Content Pro, Peeayecreative — and that's before you add hosting, security, backups, SSL, maintenance and the actual SEO and content work. We bundle all of it into a £300 per month retainer, month-to-month, no twelve-month contract.

The point isn't that the plugins are free. The point is that you're not stitching together licences, hosts, maintenance retainers and SEO contracts from four suppliers. Single bill. Single phone number. Single accountable agency.

Call or WhatsApp 07887 988780 to talk through what's currently in your stack and whether moving it across makes sense.

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