Essentials Plan

Let's keep your website online — and put it back in your hands.

You've taken the first step toward keeping the site your patients already use to find you. Before you commit to anything, here's exactly what that involves — what you're getting, what it costs, and what you're responsible for. No jargon, no surprises.

$1,200One-time setup
$349/moHosting & upkeep
Month‑to‑monthNo long contract

A website runs on two things most practices never have to think about — a domain name and hosting — plus the quiet, ongoing work of keeping it secure and online. PromiseCare paid for all of it on your behalf. This page explains each piece in plain terms, what it costs on the open market, and exactly what the Essentials plan covers.

The Basics · 1 of 2

What a domain name actually is

Your domain is your website's address — the thing patients type or click to reach you, like yourpractice.health. It's separate from the website itself.

Think of it like your office address. The domain is the address on the door; the website is the office behind it. You can keep the same address even if you renovate the office — and you can move the office while keeping the address.

What domains typically cost

A standard domain.com, .net and the like
$10–$20 /yr
A specialty domain like .healthpremium healthcare extension — what your site uses
~$75 /yr
Where your domain stands today: your .health domain is currently registered under PromiseCare. As part of getting started, we move it out of PromiseCare at no cost and manage it for you — keeping it renewed and pointed at your site. It's yours to take into your own account whenever you want, free of charge. You cover only the annual renewal (about $75/year for .health).
The Basics · 2 of 2

What web hosting actually is

Hosting is the space your website lives in — the always-on server that delivers your pages to anyone who visits. Without it, your site is just a folder of files no one can open.

If the domain is your address, hosting is the building itself — the lights, the locks, the upkeep. Someone has to pay the rent and keep it standing, or the doors don't open.

What hosting typically costs

Basic shared hostingcheapest tier — slow, no real support
$3–$15 /mo
Managed hosting for a business sitefast, secure, backed up, supported — the right tier for a practice
$25–$50 /mo
With Essentials, hosting is handled entirely by us. Your site lives on our managed cloud hosting, with daily backups, security monitoring, and uptime checks. You never touch a server, a backup, or an update — that's the point of the plan.
What Was Being Handled For You

Everything PromiseCare quietly covered

For years, a long list of work kept your website fast, secure, and visible — paid for by PromiseCare, never billed to you. It didn't stop because it was free. It stopped because PromiseCare was the one paying for it. Here's what that included:

  • Website hosting & server upkeep
  • Domain registration & yearly renewal
  • WordPress core & plugin updates
  • Bug fixes when things broke
  • Occasional content updates
  • Speed & performance tuning
  • Light search-engine optimization
  • Backlinking to lift your search ranking
  • SSL security certificate (the padlock)
  • Patient campaigns — free annual physical
  • Annual Medicare enrollment campaign
  • Standardized patient intake forms

What that's worth on the open market

Purchased separately at standard 2026 rates, even the core of this list adds up fast: managed hosting runs $25–$50/mo, ongoing maintenance $30–$200/mo, a single professional article $200–$500, and healthcare SEO commonly $600–$5,000/mo. In short — keeping a practice website properly hosted, maintained, and visible typically runs from several hundred to a few thousand dollars a month when you buy it piece by piece. Essentials is the lowest-cost way to keep the lights on.

The Essentials Plan

A safe holding pattern for your website

Essentials does one job, and does it well: it keeps your website alive, secure, and in the hands of the team that built it — so nothing breaks and you don't lose what you've built. We recover your site from backup, move it onto our hosting, remove the PromiseCare branding, and keep it running.

One thing to know up front: Essentials restores and maintains your site as it is today. It doesn't redesign your site, rebuild sections, or add new content. If parts of your website are unfinished or still need your information, they'll stay that way under Essentials — completing, rebranding, and customizing the site is what the Professional plan is for.
What's Included

Your $349/month covers all of this

Site recovery & migration

We restore your website from backup and move it onto our hosting.

PromiseCare branding removed

The logos, network links, and IPA references come off your site.

Domain moved & managed

We move your domain out of PromiseCare and keep it renewed and pointed correctly.

DNS & SSL handled

Your site stays secure with the padlock patients expect — configured and maintained.

Cloud hosting & daily backups

Fast managed hosting with a fresh backup every day, so nothing is ever lost.

Core & plugin updates

WordPress and its plugins kept current — the routine upkeep that prevents problems.

Security monitoring & firewall

Active monitoring and a firewall standing between your site and bad actors.

Uptime monitoring & break-fixes

We watch for outages and fix things that break — especially when an update causes it.

What's On You

What Essentials doesn't cover

So there are no surprises, here's what sits outside the plan:

Your annual domain renewal — about $75/year for a .health domain, billed to you. We handle the renewal; you cover the registry's fee.

Work beyond keeping the site running — new content, design changes, rebuilds, or custom requests are billed at $130/hour, or covered by moving up to Professional or Growth.

Branded email (like [email protected]), including the technical setup, is available as an add-on.

Marketing & search visibility — actively growing your traffic, rankings, and new-patient leads is the job of the Professional and Growth plans, not Essentials.

Pricing

Simple, and exactly what you'd expect

One-time setup
$1,200

We restore your site, reconnect your Google Analytics, stabilize and secure it, and remove the PromiseCare branding — the work to bring your website safely back online.

Then, monthly
$349/mo

Managed hosting, daily backups, security & uptime monitoring, software updates, and routine break-fixes. Billed monthly, cancel with 30 days' notice.

Domain moved out of PromiseCare at no cost ~$75/yr domain renewal billed to you No long-term contract
What Happens Next

From here to back online

We talk

A short call with you or your office manager to confirm Essentials is the right fit — and whether Professional or Growth would serve you better.

We get started

Once you're ready, we take payment and begin the restoration right away.

We restore

We bring your site back online on our hosting, unbranded and secure — typically within 5 business days.

You're live

Your website is up, backed up, and in the hands of the team that built it. You're set.

Want more than the lights kept on?

Essentials keeps your current site running. If you want it actually made yours — rebranded to your practice, completed and polished, and optimized to show up when patients search — that's the Professional plan.

Full rebrand & customization Your logo, colors & pages Ongoing SEO Monthly performance report
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Common Questions

The things people ask first

Yes. It currently sits under PromiseCare, and we move it out at no cost and manage it for you. You can take full ownership into your own free account whenever you like — we transfer it to you at no charge, at signup or any time after. You cover only the annual renewal (about $75/year for a .health domain).

Yes — it's your site and your content. If you ever decide to leave, we hand you a complete export of the site to take wherever you want. Nothing is held hostage.

No. Essentials is month-to-month. If you want to stop, we just ask for 30 days' notice.

We unlock your domain and send it to you, and we provide a full export of your website. From there, you or your new provider set it up on your end — we don't migrate departing sites onto someone else's platform, but you leave with everything that's yours.

Essentials restores and maintains your website exactly as it stands today. It doesn't redesign it or add new content. If sections are unfinished, they stay that way under this plan — completing and customizing the site is the Professional plan.

It covers hosting, daily backups, security and uptime monitoring, software updates, and fixing things that break. Anything beyond that — new content, design changes, or custom work — is billed at $130/hour, or handled by upgrading to a higher plan.

Because PromiseCare was paying for it. Hosting, maintenance, and a domain all carry real, ongoing costs — those costs didn't go away, they simply moved from PromiseCare to you. Essentials is the most affordable way to keep everything running without interruption.

Ready When You Are

Ready to keep your website online?

Let's set up a short call to confirm the right plan for your practice and get your site safely back in your hands.

Schedule a Quick Call

No commitment — just a conversation about what your practice needs