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Updates, monitoring, backups and content changes, on an agreed monthly scope.
Ripley is what you arrange when there is nobody whose job the website is. Updates, checks, content changes and repairs, on a site we host or one somebody else does.
- Scheduled updates and checks
- An agreed allowance for content changes
- Repairs when something breaks
What the arrangement covers
What happens every month
Ripley is a standing arrangement rather than a job you book. These four things happen on a schedule, whether or not anything has gone wrong.
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Kept current
Scheduled updates to the CMS, plugins and themes, applied and checked rather than left on automatic and hoped for.
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Kept watched
Regular checks that the site is up, that certificates are valid and that backups are running.
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Kept edited
An agreed allowance of content changes each month: text, images, new pages, price updates, opening hours.
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Kept working
When something breaks you tell us and we fix it, without an hourly negotiation before anybody looks at it.
Hosted somewhere else
That is fine. We need access to the site and its control panel, and we will tell you at the start if anything about the current setup makes the arrangement harder than it should be.
Tell us where it livesHow it is priced
Reviewed with you before anything starts
There is no Ripley shopping basket, because a care arrangement priced before anyone has seen the site is a guess with an invoice attached. The conversation is short and there is no obligation at the end of it.
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Send us the website address
Plus a sentence about what needs looking after and who looks after it now.
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We look at what it runs on
What the site is built with, how much it changes, and where the risks are.
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You get a monthly figure and a scope
Including the content-change allowance, in writing, before anything starts.
Ask about Ripley
No card details, no sign-up, no automated sequence afterwards.
Plans
Ripley is quoted with you
Reviewed with you before anything starts.
Ripley is reviewed with you before anything starts
Ripley is a care arrangement, not an unlimited development retainer. Content changes come out of an agreed monthly allowance. A redesign, a new template or a significant new feature is quoted separately, and we will tell you before any work falls outside the arrangement rather than after.
Where the line sits
Who looks after what
Ripley is a care arrangement, not an unlimited development retainer. Content changes come out of an agreed monthly allowance. A redesign, a new template or a significant new feature is quoted separately, and we will tell you before any work falls outside the arrangement rather than after.
We look after
- Scheduled CMS, plugin and theme updates
- Monitoring, certificate checks and backup verification
- The content changes covered by your allowance
- Diagnosis and repair when something goes wrong
You look after
- Deciding what the site should say
- Sending us the copy and images for changes
- Telling us about anything time-critical in advance
- Hosting, if you would rather keep it where it is
Is it the right fit
Sites this suits
Ripley is for businesses with nobody whose job the website is, who want the updates and the small changes handled on an agreed scope.
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Businesses with no in-house web person
Somebody has to do the updates. Ripley is that somebody, on an agreed scope.
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Sites inherited from a previous developer
We take on a site we did not build and tell you honestly what state it is in.
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Charities and practices that update occasionally
A monthly allowance for the content changes you actually make.
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Anyone tired of chasing somebody
Requests go to the team that already looks after the site.
Not sure Ripley is the right fit?
Answer five questionsDo you have to host the site?
No. Ripley works on a site hosted anywhere, as long as we can get the access we need.
How much is it?
It depends on the site, how much it changes and what it runs on. It is reviewed with you before anything starts, rather than priced before anyone has seen it.
What counts as a content change?
Editing text, swapping images, adding a page, updating prices or opening times. Anything larger is quoted separately and agreed first.
What if the site needs rebuilding?
We will say so. Paying monthly to maintain a site that needs replacing is not a service worth selling.
The rest of the range
If this is not the one
Every service runs on the same UK platform and gets the same support. The difference is how much of the work is yours.
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Alderley
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You publish. We look after the updates, backups, caching and staging.
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Hawthorne
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Email on your own domain, filtered before delivery, working on every device.
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Ellistone
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Root access and a machine of your own. You choose and run the whole stack.
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Serious about the work.
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If you know which plan you want, take it. If you would rather talk it through first, tell us what the website has to do.