Website maintenance cost in Egypt depends on the type of website, how complex it is and how much ongoing technical support it needs. For many business owners, maintenance only becomes a priority when a plugin update breaks a contact form, the website suddenly slows down or a security problem appears.
This guide explains website maintenance costs in Egypt, what a monthly maintenance plan should actually include and how to compare quotes without getting lost in technical details. We run maintenance plans ourselves, so where we quote our own prices, they come directly from our published web maintenance service. Where there is no reliable market-wide figure, we explain the factors that affect the cost instead of guessing.
The short answer
Our own plans start at EGP 2,000 a month (Basic, up to 4 maintenance hours) and EGP 3,000 a month (Pro, up to 8 hours). If you used every hour, that works out to EGP 500 and EGP 375 an hour. That is arithmetic on our published prices, not a market average.
Other providers charge differently, and a large store with payments, stock and shipping rules costs more to look after than a five-page company site. We cannot give you a trustworthy market-wide range, because quotes vary a lot and nobody publishes them in one place. What we can give you is the list of things that decide the price, so you can ask better questions.
What website maintenance actually is
Think of it like a car. You do not service a car because it is broken. You service it so it does not break on the Cairo–Alexandria road. A website is the same. It is software running on a server, and software gets old.
WordPress, your theme and every plugin release updates all the time. Some add features. Many fix security holes. If nobody installs them, the holes stay open. WordPress’s own developer guidance is blunt about it: older versions of WordPress are not maintained with security updates, and you should make sure your plugins are always updated and delete the ones you do not use (WordPress hardening guide).
Maintenance is the regular, boring work that prevents emergencies. It is different from building new things. A new landing page, a redesign or a new feature is a project. Keeping the site healthy month after month is maintenance. We cover the basics in our website maintenance guide.
What a monthly plan usually includes
Plans differ, but a decent one covers these seven things. This is how we describe ours, and it is a fair checklist for anyone else’s.
1. Software updates
WordPress core, the theme and the plugins. The important detail is how they are updated: take a backup first, update, then test the pages that matter. Pressing “update all” on a Friday night and walking away is not maintenance.
2. Scheduled backups
A backup has two parts: the files and the database. WordPress’s documentation explains why you need both: the database holds your posts, comments and links, and it is stored separately from the files (WordPress backup guide). The same guide suggests weekly backups for smaller sites, daily for active ones, and keeping several recent copies in more than one place.
3. Security checks
Scanning for malicious files and spam injected into your pages, plus checking that nothing odd has appeared. Our guide on how to secure your website goes deeper, and our SSL guide covers the padlock.
4. Bug and error fixes
The form that stopped sending emails, the menu that broke on mobile, the white screen after an update. Fixes like these are where the “hours” in a plan get used. If you only need this occasionally, look at one-off error and bug fixing too.
5. Speed checks
Sites get slower over time: more plugins, bigger images, a heavier database. Regular monitoring catches that early. Deep speed work, like rebuilding how pages load, is usually a separate job. See page speed optimization.
6. Small content updates
Changing a phone number, swapping a price, adding a team member. Ask where the line is. “Small edits” and “write me five new pages” are not the same thing.
7. A monthly report
A short note saying what was updated, what was found, what was fixed and what needs a decision. Without it, you are paying for work you cannot see. If a provider cannot show you a report, treat that as a warning.
Plan levels compared
Here are our two published plans next to a third column for bigger sites. For the third column we deliberately give no price: it depends on the site, and anyone who quotes you without looking at it is guessing.
| What you get | Basic | Pro | Store or complex site |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | EGP 2,000 | EGP 3,000 | Ask for a quote |
| Maintenance hours | Up to 4 | Up to 8 | Agreed in the quote |
| Backups (files and database) | Weekly | Twice a week | Agree the frequency in writing |
| Core, theme and plugin updates | Weekly | Twice a week | Agree it in writing |
| Security checks | Included | Daily | Agree it in writing |
| Bug and error fixes | Included | Included | Included, with a clear response time |
| Speed monitoring | Included | Included | Included |
| Monthly technical report | Included | Included | Included |
| Our view: best for | A simple company site that rarely changes | A busy site with forms, bookings or frequent edits | Online stores, payment flows, custom features |
The “our view” row is our opinion, not a rule. Prices and inclusions for Basic and Pro are taken from our maintenance page and may change, so check it before you decide.
What is usually not included
This is where most arguments start, so read it twice. A monthly plan normally does not cover:
- Hosting and the domain. The server and your .com or .com.eg renewal are separate bills, unless the provider says otherwise. See our notes on hosting in Egypt.
- Paid plugins and licences. Premium plugins renew every year, and someone has to pay for them.
- New features and redesigns. A booking system, a new page template or a rebuilt homepage is project work.
- SEO and marketing. Maintenance keeps the site technically healthy. It does not write articles or build links. See what that costs in our SEO cost guide.
- Cleaning up a hacked site. Some plans include a limited number of hours for this and some do not. Ask.
- Hours beyond your limit. If a plan has 4 hours and a problem takes 9, find out the price of hour five before you need it.
What drives the cost
Two websites can both be “just WordPress” and still cost very different amounts to maintain. These are the reasons.
How much the site does
A brochure site with a contact form has little that can go wrong. A store has payment gateways, stock, shipping rules and order emails. Our ecommerce cost guide says it plainly: payment APIs change and new security holes appear, so regular maintenance belongs in your budget from day one (ecommerce website cost in Egypt).
How many plugins and custom parts
Every plugin is one more thing that can clash with the others. A site with 12 well-chosen plugins is cheaper to look after than a site with 45 that were installed over the years by three different people. Custom code adds more: nobody else has seen it, so every change needs care.
How busy it is
A busy store needs stronger hosting and closer watching. Our own cost guide warns that basic shared hosting can crash when checkout traffic spikes. Traffic spikes do not warn you first. They arrive on the day of the sale.
How fast you need an answer
“We will look at it this week” and “someone responds today” are different services with different prices. If downtime costs you bookings, pay for the faster one and get the response time in writing.
The state the site is in today
A site that has not been updated in two years needs a clean-up before any plan starts working. Expect an initial review, and possibly a one-off fee. It is fair to ask the provider to explain what they found and what it will take.
Who built it
A site built on a well-known theme with standard plugins is easy for anyone to take over. A site built in a way only the original developer understands is harder, and the provider will price in the risk. This is also why you should insist on owning your site. When we finish a project and it is paid in full, the website, project files and database are handed over to you entirely, and you should expect the same from anyone you hire (website design cost in Egypt).
Four typical scenarios
These are hypothetical stories, not real clients. We made them up from the kind of problems we see, so you can recognise your own situation.
The Hurghada hotel and the silent booking form
A small hotel in Hurghada has a booking enquiry form. One day a plugin updates itself, and the form keeps showing “thank you” but stops sending the emails. Nobody notices. Two weeks later the owner wonders why enquiries dried up in the middle of the season. The form looked fine the whole time.
The lesson is not that updates are bad. It is that updates need testing. A maintenance plan that checks the forms after every update would have caught this on day one. That is a big part of what you pay for.
The Cairo clothing shop and the Ramadan sale
A clothing shop in Cairo plans a big Ramadan sale and spends money on ads. On the first evening, checkout slows down and then fails. The payment plugin has not been updated for months, and the gateway changed something on its side. Every hour of failed checkout is a lost order, plus a customer who will not come back.
Spending a few thousand pounds a month on maintenance feels expensive until you compare it with one lost sale week. Test your checkout before the campaign, not during it.
The clinic site and the old plugin
A clinic has a simple site with an appointment form. An old slider plugin has not been updated in years, and attackers find a known weakness in it. One morning, patients searching for the clinic see strange links to unrelated products, and Google warns that the site may be unsafe.
Cleaning up costs far more than updating would have, and the clinic loses trust that takes longer to rebuild than the site. Because a clinic form can hold health details, the stakes are higher than for most sites. We wrote about that side in our post on the Egypt data protection law and your website.
The freelancer who disappeared
A business owner pays a friend’s cousin to build the site. It looks great. A year later something breaks, and the freelancer does not answer calls. Nobody has the hosting login, the admin password is in his head, and the domain is registered in his name.
This story is very common, and it is not about the freelancer being a bad person. Nobody had agreed who owns what, who does maintenance, and what happens if he is unavailable. A written plan fixes that.
DIY, freelancer or agency?
All three can work. Each has a different weak point.
Doing it yourself
Cheapest in cash and the most expensive in attention. It is fine for a small site if you are comfortable with backups, updates and restoring a site when an update goes wrong. The risk is not skill. It is consistency. Nobody updates a site every week for five years from memory.
A freelancer
A good freelancer can be excellent value and very responsive. The risk is that they are one person: illness, travel, a new full-time job. Ask who covers when they are away, and keep every login in your own hands.
An agency
Usually costs more per month, and in exchange you get a team, process and someone who answers when the person you know is on leave. The risk is paying for a brand name and getting a junior on your ticket. Ask who will actually touch your site.
We are an agency, so take this with a pinch of salt, but our honest advice is simple. If your site brings in money or bookings, do not leave it to chance, whichever route you pick.
Red flags when comparing quotes
- A price with no list of what is included. “Maintenance, EGP 800” tells you nothing.
- “Unlimited” everything. Nobody offers unlimited work for a fixed fee. Look for the catch.
- No mention of backups, or backups stored only on the same server. If the server dies, so do the backups.
- No testing after updates. Ask what they check after an update.
- They will not give you the admin logins or say who owns the domain and hosting. This is the biggest one.
- No report. If you cannot see the work, you cannot judge it.
- A guaranteed ranking. That belongs in an SEO conversation, and even there nobody honest guarantees it. As our SEO cost guide puts it: you are not buying a ranking.
- A price that is far lower than everyone else’s. Sometimes it is a bargain. More often the hours are fewer than you think, or the work is done by a script with nobody checking the result.
A checklist: what to ask before you sign
Copy these questions into an email. A good provider will answer them without fuss.
- How many hours a month are included, and what does an extra hour cost?
- How often are backups taken, where are they stored, and have you ever tested restoring one?
- How often are updates done, and what do you test afterwards?
- What happens if the site is hacked? Is cleaning included, or charged separately?
- How fast do you respond to an urgent problem, and how do I reach you?
- Who owns the domain, hosting and admin accounts? Will I have full access?
- Are paid plugin licences and hosting included, or billed separately?
- Do I get a monthly report? Can I see an example?
- What is the notice period if I want to cancel, and will you hand everything over?
- Is there a minimum contract length?
How to budget for it
We do not have a magic percentage, and we would be suspicious of anyone who does. A more useful approach is to work out what a bad week would cost you. If your site brings in enquiries or orders, add up one week of them. Compare that with twelve months of a maintenance plan. For most active businesses the plan costs less than a single bad week.
Also remember that maintenance is only one of the recurring costs. Hosting renewal, the domain and any paid plugins come on top. When you compare build quotes, our design cost guide suggests checking how long hosting is included, the server specifications and what renewal will cost later. For the build itself, see our guides to website design, ecommerce and mobile app costs.
If you also handle personal data through forms, bookings or checkout, maintenance and security overlap with legal duties. Our data protection checklist explains how.
Where to go from here
If you want a quote, tell us what your site does, roughly how many plugins it has and what it would cost you if it went down for a day. Contact us and we will tell you honestly whether Basic, Pro or something custom fits. Questions we get a lot are also answered on our FAQ page, and you can read about our web maintenance service in full.
Frequently asked questions
How much does website maintenance cost in Egypt?
It depends on the site. Our own plans are EGP 2,000 a month for Basic (up to 4 hours) and EGP 3,000 a month for Pro (up to 8 hours). Stores and complex sites are quoted individually, so ask for a written quote.
Do I really need monthly maintenance?
If the site brings you enquiries, bookings or sales, yes. Updates, backups and security checks need to happen regularly, and a plan makes sure someone does them. A site you never rely on can be handled more loosely.
What is the difference between maintenance and a one-off fix?
Maintenance is regular work that prevents problems. A one-off fix solves a problem that has already happened. Many owners use a plan for the first and buy fixes only when needed.
Does the monthly price include hosting?
Usually not. Hosting and the domain are normally separate bills unless the provider says they are included, so ask and get the answer in writing.
How often should a WordPress site be backed up?
WordPress documentation suggests weekly backups for smaller sites and daily for active ones, kept in more than one place. Our Basic plan backs up weekly and Pro twice a week. A busy store may need more.
What if my site gets hacked?
Restore a clean backup, remove the cause and update everything that was out of date. Ask your provider in advance whether clean-up is included in the plan or billed by the hour.
Can my web designer or freelancer do the maintenance?
Often yes, and it can work well. Just make sure the work is written down, that you hold the logins and that someone covers when they are unavailable.
Is it cheaper to do the maintenance myself?
In cash, yes. In time and risk, not always. If you are comfortable with backups and testing updates it is realistic for a small site. Many owners stop after a few months, which is when problems start.
Does maintenance include SEO?
No. Maintenance keeps the site healthy and fast. SEO is separate work such as content and rankings, with its own price. See our SEO cost guide for typical ranges.
Can I cancel a maintenance plan at any time?
That depends on the contract. Ask about the notice period and minimum term before you sign, and make sure the provider will hand over all access when you leave.
Plan prices and inclusions come from our maintenance page and cost guides, checked on 4 October 2026. The four stories above are hypothetical. WordPress guidance is linked to its source.