Managed WordPress for businesses that want speed, uptime, security and growth - without managing the technical stack themselves.
Managed WordPress

Your WordPress website.
Managed as an ongoing service.

Hostnary manages the WordPress stack behind your website - updates, security, backups, uptime, performance and technical maintenance - so your team can focus on running the business.

Advanced SEO and GEO, WordPress development and WooCommerce operations are available in higher plans.

The service, explained

What is Managed WordPress?

Managed WordPress is an ongoing service where a technical team takes responsibility for maintaining, monitoring and improving the WordPress environment instead of leaving that work to the website owner.

With Hostnary, the service covers the technical stack behind the website, including maintenance, updates, security, backups, uptime and performance monitoring. More advanced plans also include SEO, GEO, development and WooCommerce operations within their scope.

The goal is to keep the website technically healthy and actively managed, with a clear place to bring technical requests.

Managed WordPress vs WordPress hosting

Hosting and management solve different problems. A website needs suitable infrastructure and someone responsible for its ongoing technical operation.

WordPress hosting

Hosting provides the infrastructure where WordPress runs. The package typically covers:

  • Server resources and PHP
  • Database and storage
  • Basic hosting tools

Some hosting packages also provide management features; the actual scope varies by provider.

Hostnary Managed WordPress

Hostnary adds ongoing operational responsibility for the WordPress environment.

  • Updates, maintenance and verification
  • Security, backups and monitoring
  • Plugin management and troubleshooting
  • Performance and technical configuration
  • SEO and development depending on plan

Hosting gives WordPress a place to run. Managed WordPress takes responsibility for keeping the website running well.

Who is Managed WordPress for?

Hostnary is suited to businesses that need WordPress to support their work without assigning the technical stack to their own team.

That includes small and medium businesses, professional service companies and marketing teams without an internal WordPress specialist.

  • Businesses relying on their website for leads
  • WooCommerce stores with ongoing technical needs
  • Organizations with an existing WordPress site to maintain
  • Companies launching a website that needs care afterward

Already have a WordPress site? Start with a review of your current setup. Suitability and the work needed are established before takeover.

You run the business. We run the WordPress stack.

Clear responsibilities keep everyday business decisions separate from the technical work needed to support them.

You run your website

  • Business content and marketing messages
  • Products and commercial decisions
  • Customers, orders and normal business operations
  • Content approvals and everyday publishing according to your role

Hostnary runs the technical stack

  • Maintenance and WordPress updates
  • Plugin installation and configuration
  • Security, backups and uptime monitoring
  • Performance, troubleshooting and technical changes
  • Integrations and structural work within the agreed plan scope

While your website is under management, new plugins, integrations and structural modifications are coordinated through Hostnary. This creates a controlled environment and helps reduce plugin conflicts, performance regressions and unmanaged changes.

What Hostnary manages

Maintenance is the foundation. Optimization, integration and development work expand with your selected plan.

WordPress maintenance

Core, theme and plugin updates, with post-update verification to check that the website continues to work.

Security

Hardening, vulnerability monitoring, configuration checks and incident troubleshooting, supported by backup and recovery workflows.

Uptime

24/7 automated availability checks support incident awareness. Automated monitoring is distinct from human support availability.

Performance

Performance monitoring and real-user data inform configuration and caching work. Core Web Vitals optimization is included in higher plans.

Backups

Backup management, restore capability and a pre-change safety workflow support ongoing technical maintenance.

Plugins & configuration

Plugin installation, configuration and compatibility management are coordinated centrally. Technical integrations depend on plan and agreed scope.

Analytics

Analytics monitoring and Google Search Console integration are part of the current plans. Event tracking and implementation work expand in higher plans.

SEO & GEO

Basic SEO is included in Basic. Higher plans add advanced technical and on-page work, keyword tracking and AI-search visibility analysis.

Development

Higher plans provide monthly capacity for pages, forms, integrations and custom technical work within their development-hour limits.

How Hostnary manages a WordPress website

Hostnary starts with the existing environment, establishes a baseline and organizes ongoing work around the site's needs and selected plan.

  1. Audit

    Review WordPress, hosting, plugins, themes, security, backups, performance, SEO and integrations.

  2. Baseline

    Document the site inventory, establish backups and monitoring, and record the technical starting point.

  3. Stabilize

    Prioritize outdated software, configuration problems, security concerns and critical performance issues identified in the review.

  4. Manage

    Carry out updates, monitoring, maintenance, verification and troubleshooting as an ongoing service.

  5. Improve

    Plan further performance, SEO, GEO, development, conversion and integration work according to the selected plan.

Managed WordPress plans

Choose the level of ongoing responsibility your website needs. These are summaries of the current homepage plans.

Managed WP Basic

Ongoing technical care for brochure and small business websites.

$199 / year

$149 for the first year

Annual billing only.

  • Core, theme and plugin updates
  • Security, backups and uptime monitoring
  • Real-user performance monitoring
  • Analytics and Search Console
  • Basic SEO with Rank Math
Ask about Managed WP Basic

Managed WP Business

Technical management plus regular optimization and development.

$79 / month

$59/month for the first year

Annual billing: get 2 months free.

  • Everything in Managed WP Basic
  • Advanced SEO and GEO
  • Monthly SEO audit; up to 50 tracked keywords
  • Content publishing and integrations
  • Up to 3 development hours per month
Ask about Managed WP Business

Managed WooCommerce

Management for stores with products, checkout and connected systems.

$149 / month

$119/month for the first year

Annual billing: get 2 months free.

  • Everything in Managed WP Business
  • Weekly SEO audit; up to 200 tracked keywords
  • Product and category operations
  • Checkout, payment and shipping integrations
  • Up to 5 development hours per month
Ask about Managed WooCommerce

Compare all plans →

Already running WordPress?

You do not need to rebuild your website simply to use Hostnary. We can review the existing site, document its stack and establish the work needed to bring it into ongoing management.

The takeover sequence is audit → backup → takeover → stabilization → ongoing management. Critical issues and any migration needs are identified during the technical review.

Start with the website you have

Tell us about the current environment and what needs attention. The review provides a practical starting point for backups, monitoring and technical work.

Request a WordPress audit

For background on the technical process, read our WordPress migration guide.

Performance based on real users, not only speed tests

Hostnary uses real-user performance monitoring alongside synthetic testing to understand how a WordPress website behaves. Synthetic tests help investigate a repeatable scenario; real-user data reflects visitors' devices, connections and actual traffic.

Optimization decisions should consider both. A caching setting that improves one test still needs to work with the site's forms, content and checkout.

Explore our guide to speed, mobile usability and technical SEO and the WP Rocket caching resource for supporting context.

WordPress security as an ongoing process

Hostnary treats security as continuing technical work, not simply the installation of a security plugin. Timely updates, controlled plugins, configuration, backups and monitoring help keep the environment manageable.

Recovery planning and reducing unnecessary components are part of that approach. No WordPress environment is guaranteed to be immune to an incident; specific recovery arrangements and support scope are confirmed for the service.

SEO and GEO for websites that need ongoing growth

SEO focuses on visibility in traditional search engines. Hostnary's higher plans extend basic SEO into ongoing technical and on-page work, Search Console analysis, keyword tracking, internal linking and content improvements.

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the practice of improving how clearly a website's information can be understood, retrieved and referenced by AI-driven search and answer systems.

Structured content, appropriate structured data and AI visibility analysis can support that work. They do not guarantee search rankings or AI citations, and the scope depends on the plan.

Our Yoast SEO Premium resource explains one set of editorial tools. Browse the WordPress and SEO guides for the wider context.

Ongoing WordPress development when you need it

Managed WP Business includes up to 3 development hours per month; Managed WooCommerce includes up to 5. That capacity can cover new pages, landing pages, forms, analytics, API connections, integrations, conversion improvements and technical fixes within the agreed scope.

Unused development hours do not roll over. They reserve capacity for the current billing month. Requests are coordinated through Hostnary so changes can be assessed alongside the rest of the website.

Why businesses choose a managed WordPress model

A managed model gives the business a clear technical owner and a continuing way to maintain and improve its website.

One technical owner

Coordinate updates, security, performance and technical requests through one managed service.

A controlled environment

Plugin choices and technical changes are considered together, rather than accumulating without oversight.

Continuous maintenance

Updates and monitoring are ongoing responsibilities, not tasks saved only for when something breaks.

Room to expand

Your team can focus on content and business activity, with a path into advanced SEO, GEO, development or WooCommerce operations as its needs change.

Browse our WordPress plugin and theme resources or explore the illustrative WordPress showcase concepts. These concepts explain possible approaches; they are not client-result evidence.

Managed WordPress questions

What does Managed WordPress include?

Hostnary manages WordPress updates, plugins, security, backups, uptime and performance monitoring. Analytics, Search Console and basic SEO are part of the current Basic plan. Advanced SEO, GEO, development and WooCommerce operations depend on the selected plan.

Is hosting included?

The service can include hosting selected for your target audience, with US and EU infrastructure options depending on the project. The initial review establishes the appropriate hosting setup and management scope.

Can Hostnary take over an existing WordPress website?

Yes. Hostnary can review an existing WordPress or WooCommerce website, document its technical stack and plan the move into ongoing management. A rebuild is not automatically required; the initial technical review determines the work needed.

Who manages plugins?

Hostnary coordinates plugin installation, configuration and updates while the website is under management. Your team continues to operate content and normal business activity according to its role.

Can I request a new plugin or integration?

Yes. Send the request to Hostnary so compatibility, performance and implementation scope can be reviewed before the change is made. Integration and development capacity depend on your plan.

What is the difference between Managed WordPress and hosting?

Hosting provides the infrastructure where WordPress runs. Managed WordPress adds ongoing responsibility for maintenance, monitoring, configuration and troubleshooting, with further optimization and development depending on the plan.

Does Hostnary manage WooCommerce?

Yes. The Managed WooCommerce plan includes store-focused work such as product and category operations, checkout monitoring, ecommerce analytics and payment, shipping and other integrations within the agreed scope.

Does 24/7 monitoring mean 24/7 support?

No. The 24/7 reference means automated uptime monitoring. It is not a promise of round-the-clock human support or a guaranteed response time. Support arrangements are confirmed as part of the service scope.

Do unused development hours roll over?

No. Managed WP Business includes up to 3 development hours per month and Managed WooCommerce includes up to 5. These hours reserve capacity for that billing month and do not roll over.

Ready to stop managing WordPress yourself?

Tell us what you're running today. We'll review the current setup and recommend the simplest way to move it into ongoing management.