Website maintenance & hosting.

Hosting is free in year one and CHF 300 a year after that (domain not included); maintenance costs CHF 100 to 300 a month, all excluding VAT. Where your maintenance sits in that range depends on what you need: occasional changes to copy, images or prices sit at the lower end, newly created monthly content at the upper end. The exact scope is in the quote before you sign anything.

The domain is not part of hosting. It is registered to your company and you pay the annual fee to the registrar. That is deliberate: the domain is the one item that cannot be repaired when you change provider, only bought back — so it belongs to you from the start.

For market context: a Swiss agency blog (beyondweb.ch, as of 7 October 2026) puts maintenance at roughly CHF 25–250 a month. That is a market figure from a small sample, not an independent study. Maintenance offers can only be compared by content anyway: what is in the monthly amount, and what does everything beyond it cost?

Maintenance covers changes to your existing website and, if you want it, new content every month. It is what many businesses mean when they search for "website support": somebody makes sure the site is right, without you having to go into the editing system yourself.

• Included: changes to existing pages — copy, images, prices, opening hours, team — and monthly content creation if agreed, such as articles or service pages.
• Not included: new features (booking, calculators, customer area, shop), a redesign or relaunch (a new build starts at CHF 3,000), SEO, GEO or Google Ads, and the domain fee.

New monthly content also helps findability, because search engines and AI assistants favour current, concrete content — but nobody can guarantee that. Anything beyond the agreed scope is quoted beforehand, not afterwards.

For websites we build, we cover hosting for the first twelve months at no cost; from year two it costs CHF 300 a year (excl. VAT). You do not have to find a host for go-live, and the site runs from day one.

It does not tie you in. The domain, credentials and source code belong to you. If you later want to run the website with another provider, you take it with you without rebuilding. That is the difference from many website subscriptions, where hosting, upkeep and the site sit in one contract and do not belong to you at the end.

Anyone looking for website hosting in Switzerland should settle four things in writing with every provider, ourselves included: where is the server, how often is it backed up and how quickly is a backup restored, who has access to the hosting, and how does cancellation work?

A maintenance contract is worth it when things change regularly and nobody in the business has time for it — otherwise it is not. If you adjust an opening time twice a year, do it yourself in the editing system and save the monthly fee.

It is different when prices, offers or staff change often, when you run seasonal promotions, or when something new should appear on the website every month. A fixed monthly amount is then usually easier to plan than many small one-off jobs, and the website stays current even when everything else in the business takes priority.

An honest test: look at your website and count how many details are no longer right today. If there are several, the question is not whether you need maintenance, but who takes it on.

Maintenance keeps the website current; SEO and GEO work specifically on getting it found. Both are often called "support", but they are not the same — and a quote that mixes them is hard to compare.

• Website maintenance (CHF 100–300 a month): changes and, if wanted, monthly content.
• Local SEO (from CHF 300 a month): visibility in your region, Google Business Profile, local pages.
• Full-service SEO (from CHF 400 a month): analysis, site plan, content and technology for better positions, with a monthly report.
• GEO (from CHF 300 a month): visibility in AI answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and others.

In three cases we advise against a maintenance contract. First, if you rarely change anything and somebody in the business can make the changes. Second, if the website itself is the problem: an outdated or slow site does not get better through maintenance, only more current — sometimes a rebuild costs less than years of upkeep. Third, if what you actually want is more enquiries: that is a question of visibility, not maintenance, and the budget belongs in local SEO or ongoing SEO.