Prices
Clear starting prices for small businesses. The final cost depends on scope, urgency, the condition of the current setup and whether content is already prepared.
Each package shows a realistic starting point. Final pricing depends on the actual scope.
Emergency technical fix
Fast troubleshooting for outages, broken deployments, DNS mistakes or email failures.
- Immediate review of the current symptoms and impact
- Hands-on troubleshooting and remediation
- Short summary of what changed and next steps
- Long-term monitoring or maintenance
- New feature development outside the fix
- Broken websites throwing errors
- Email deliverability failures
- DNS misconfigurations or SSL outages
Usually same day once access is provided.
DNS / email / domain cleanup
Untangle DNS zones, restore mail authentication and document who owns what before it breaks again.
- Audit of current DNS, registrar history and mail routing
- SPF, DKIM, DMARC rebuild plus deliverability monitoring
- Documentation of new records and ownership
- Copywriting or content for websites
- Long-term monitoring after the cleanup
- Companies that lost mail after migrations
- Domains moved between multiple providers
- Teams without current DNS documentation
1-3 days depending on registrar propagation.
Payment setup review
Review of your current payment setup, checkout flow, fraud settings, dispute risks and obvious configuration problems.
- Current processor and checkout review
- Fraud, dispute and friction assessment
- Plain-English summary of the main issues
- Full processor reconfiguration
- Custom development outside review scope
- Shops with unclear payment failures
- Businesses worried about disputes or chargebacks
- Teams that want a second look before launch
Usually 1-2 business days once access is available.
Payment processor setup
Setup or cleanup of Stripe or similar payment processors, including basic fraud protection, receipts, checkout testing and documentation.
- Processor setup or settings cleanup
- Basic fraud protection, receipts and descriptor review
- Checkout testing plus short documentation
- Complex custom checkout builds
- Ongoing dispute handling after handover
- Small businesses adding online payments
- Existing checkouts that need cleanup
- Stripe and similar processor setups
Often completed in 1-3 days depending on scope.
Fraud & chargeback risk configuration
Advanced configuration for businesses dealing with suspicious payments, high-risk orders, disputes or unnecessary 3D Secure friction.
- Risk review and protection mode recommendation
- Fraud-rule and 3D Secure configuration guidance
- Manual review and dispute workflow suggestions
- Guaranteed fraud or chargeback prevention
- Underwriting or processor approval work
- Higher-risk or higher-value transactions
- Businesses seeing suspicious orders
- Teams balancing checkout conversion against fraud risk
Usually 2-4 days depending on processor complexity.
Landing page
A one-page site that explains the offer clearly and gives people an easy way to get in touch.
- Single-page design and implementation
- Mobile-responsive layout and basic accessibility
- Primary CTA section plus contact details
- Deployment to reliable hosting and basic metadata
- Copywriting from scratch if no material exists
- Complex animations or custom integrations
- Service launches
- Campaign-specific offers
- Consultants who need a professional presence fast
Typically 1-2 weeks depending on feedback speed.
Business website up to 5 pages
A multi-page site with clear services, proof, pricing cues and contact paths in one language.
- Information architecture for up to five pages
- Design system, typography and imagery sourcing
- Implementation in a modern stack with performance focus
- Deployment, SSL, analytics baseline and documentation
- Complex integrations (custom CRMs, portals)
- Brand-new copy without any client input
- Trades and professional services
- Studios needing a credible portfolio
- Companies refreshing an outdated site
3-5 weeks depending on approvals and content readiness.
Bilingual website
A two-language website with matching navigation, copy and calls to action in both languages.
- Language switch with canonical links and metadata
- Translation integration or coordination with client translators
- Bilingual forms, proof blocks and CTAs
- Deployment and QA in both languages
- Professional translation services (can be coordinated)
- More than two languages without extra scope
- Firms operating in English and German
- Tourism and service businesses
- Companies replacing quick machine translations
4-6 weeks depending on content complexity.
VPS / server setup
Prepare a clean VPS or server with secure access, deployments and documentation.
- Base OS installation and updates
- Firewall, SSH hardening and user/access setup
- Web stack groundwork (Nginx/Apache, SSL automation)
- Basic deployment pipeline or manual runbook
- Ongoing maintenance after handover
- Complex clustering or Kubernetes setups
- Studios that need their own VPS
- Businesses leaving shared hosting
- Teams wanting predictable deployments
2-4 days including documentation.
Basic Watch
A lightweight maintenance tier for routine checks, updates and small fixes.
- Basic uptime and visible-site checks
- Routine updates for the agreed stack
- Small fixes or small content corrections within the monthly allowance
- Emergency recovery outside the included allowance
- Major rebuilds, migrations or custom feature work
- Simple business and service sites
- Businesses that want the basics watched regularly
- Teams with occasional small edits
Kickoff within one week once the initial scope is complete.
Care
A more active maintenance tier for regular update handling, monitoring and small technical work.
- Everything in Basic Watch at a deeper level
- Regular review of forms, integrations and key business paths
- A larger allowance for small fixes, content changes and housekeeping
- Urgent after-hours rescue outside the agreed scope
- Large new features or full redesign work
- Sites with regular business activity
- Businesses that rely on forms or integrations
- Owners who want a more reliable technical contact
Best after the initial cleanup or rebuild is complete.
Ops
A higher-touch maintenance tier for businesses with multiple moving parts and ongoing operational needs.
- Deeper monitoring and recurring operational review
- Update handling, small fixes and regular technical housekeeping
- Priority support during agreed working hours
- Major project work outside the monthly scope
- Unlimited emergency intervention
- Businesses with multiple technical dependencies
- Sites tied to email, DNS, server or payment workflows
- Teams that want ongoing technical support without a full in-house role
Set up after scope review and operating rhythm agreement.
Notes
- All prices are starting points. Complex scopes, missing access or previous damage may increase the final number.
- Urgent work, incomplete source material and heavily broken existing systems can influence the quote.
- Hosting, domains, premium plugins, third-party services and external subscriptions are not included unless explicitly agreed.
- Fixed-price projects are quoted individually after a quick review of the requirements.
Need an estimate?
Send the basics and I will reply with a quick estimate and the next step.
- Website or domain
- What broke or needs to launch
- Deadline or urgency
- Any special constraints
- Send the essentials plus urgency, deadlines and any existing access.
- I review scope, confirm missing details and outline the likely approach.
- You receive a quote or range with the next step and we schedule the work.