Website Maintenance & Hosting Costs — Complete Business Guide

Many clients assume a one-time build fee covers forever. In reality, websites need infrastructure, updates and ongoing care — professionals discuss run costs from day one.

Hosting vs maintenance

Hosting = server resources (CPU, RAM, bandwidth). Maintenance = human work: patches, bugs, small changes, monitoring, backups.

Hosting types

• Shared: blogs and light corporate sites
• VPS: shops, Next.js apps, Telegram bots — from ~300K Tomans/month
• Dedicated/cloud: high traffic and compliance needs

Critical updates

Security patches, SSL renewal, dependency updates and tested backups.

Monthly maintenance pricing

Depends on included hours, SLA, stack complexity and traffic. Typical baseline for SMB sites: 3–7M Tomans/month (~$32–74) in the Iranian market.

Client checklist

Domain ownership, backup policy, SLA, what's included vs billable feature work.

Satranaut offers server & hosting and monthly maintenance with transparent reporting.