The one site calculation
Hosting, licences, security, speed, SEO, monitoring, audits and developer time, priced separately, it adds up fast. Here’s the full line-by-line breakdown for one year.
Most business owners are surprised to find they’re paying for nine or ten different tools just to keep one website running.
Services
Hosting & SSL
CDN
Plugin & theme licences
Security & malware
Speed optimisation
SEO tools
Uptime monitoring
Backups
Website audits
New pages, changes & fixes
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Page Guard
Prices correct as of August 2026, based on a typical 20GB website with 20,000 monthly visits. Third-party pricing taken from each provider’s website in August 2026 and may have changed since. Agency and freelance costs are estimated using UK national average day rates for around 20 hours of work a year. Actual costs will vary. This is a general guide, not a quote.
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£4,914/year
Cheapest stack
£2,311/year
Page Guard
£840/year
Prices correct as of August 2026, based on a typical 20GB website with 20,000 monthly visits. Third-party pricing taken from each provider’s website in August 2026 and may have changed since. Agency and freelance costs are estimated using UK national average day rates for around 20 hours of work a year. Actual costs will vary. This is a general guide, not a quote.
No call centres, no chatbots, no time zones to work around. When you send us a request, it goes straight to a developer on our team, and it gets done. You’ll deal with the same friendly faces every time, not a new person each time you get in touch.
Call us or send a request, and a named member of our team gets back to you. Never a bot.
Most requests are picked up within hours, not days, whether it's a new page, a fix, or a small change
Our team works across the UK and USA, so you'll always find someone in your time zone, with no language barrier.
