Maintenance Retainer
For a system you want kept running by the person who knows it. A monthly block of hours for security patches, monitoring, backups, small changes and the questions in between, with a short report every month.
From EUR 720 a month excl. VAT (8 hours). Blocks of 8, 16 or 24 hours a month at EUR 90. Unused hours are reported, not hidden.
- Patching
- Monitoring
- Backups
- Small changes
One engagement. Clear deliverables.
Operating system, PHP, framework and dependencies kept in support.
Uptime, certificates, disk, queues and failed jobs watched, with a response target.
Checked, and restored for real on a schedule.
Tickets picked from the block, in the order you set.
Hours used, what changed, what is coming up, what I recommend.
How to reach me, and what happens when I am not available.
- 01
Intro call and a look at the system, or straight after a project of mine.
- 02
Block size and response targets agreed in writing.
- 03
Monthly cycle: patches, monitoring, tickets, report.
- 04
Review every quarter: size up, size down or stop.
New features beyond the block are quoted separately. Response times are targets, not guarantees: I am one person and I say so.
Terms in short- Amounts excl. VAT, quote valid 14 days.
- Payment within 14 days, acceptance within 7 days.
- Rights pass to you on full payment.
- General terms and NDA as PDF.
Phalcon to Laravel, module by module, while the platform stayed in daily use. No big-bang switch, no rewrite from scratch.
Who keeps it running after the developer leaves?
Tell me what it is and how often it changes. I reply within one working day with the block size I would start with, free.