Website Maintenance & Revival: revive legacy sites and capture lost leads
We take over inherited code and fix it without forced rewrites. Form repair, mobile layout, speed, SEO & ongoing content support.
Common legacy site bottlenecks
The site was built years ago, the original developer disappeared, and every small fix turns into a roadblock.
Form submissions vanish
Emails from forms get lost, spam bots clog the inbox, Telegram alerts are missing, and hot leads slip away daily.
Mobile layout breaks
Looks fine on desktop, but on mobile screens buttons overlap text, forms do not send, and buyers leave immediately.
Contractors demand a full rewrite
Agencies avoid legacy code and pitch expensive total rewrites. We audit the code first and repair what is broken in place.
Our honest boundary: quick fixes vs new projects
We do not make empty promises, but clearly distinguish scope based on codebase reality.
✓Solved by targeted fixes
- Fixing form delivery and setting up Telegram notifications
- Mobile responsiveness for headers, forms, and product grids
- Automated cloud backups independent of your host
- Speed optimization and caching (PageSpeed Green)
- Malware cleanup, spam links removal and security hardening
- Monthly updates of pricing, banners, contacts and SEO articles
❖When a dedicated project is required
- Full structural redesign and overhaul of core logic
- Migration from deprecated legacy engines with 301 redirects
- Complex custom 1C, ERP and CRM sync from scratch
- Customer portal and payment gateway integrations
What we do not do (our strict standards)
We never touch code without a verified backup.
No guessing prices before inspecting the code.
We never withhold your domain or server credentials.
No forced rewrites where a targeted fix solves it.
Technologies and engines supported
Stacks our own products and clients run on. We know these environments inside out.
Audit your website with our online scanner
Scan your domain in 15 seconds to uncover mobile layout bugs, broken forms, SEO flaws, and speed bottlenecks.
Transparent Maintenance Pricing
Fixed plans for clear tasks, monthly subscriptions for active care, and hourly retainers for custom development.
Further work — hourly retainer
The larger the retainer, the lower the hourly rate. Hours do not expire before the end of the retainer.
Small
- ✓20 hours
- ✓hourly rate 2,700 ₽
- ✓savings of 6,000 ₽ against the one-off rate
Medium
most popular- ✓40 hours
- ✓hourly rate 2,500 ₽
- ✓savings of 20,000 ₽ against the one-off rate
Large
- ✓80 hours
- ✓hourly rate 2,400 ₽
- ✓savings of 48,000 ₽ against the one-off rate
Hours do not expire before the end of the retainer and carry over month to month. The minimum request is 1 hour, billed in 30-minute increments. Once the hours run out, the next retainer is purchased fresh — work is not carried on credit.
Site support — subscription
Basic
- ✓updates and backups
- ✓uptime monitoring
- ✓2 hours of edits a month
- ✓response by the next business day
Extended
most popular- ✓everything in Basic
- ✓6 hours of edits
- ✓domain and certificate renewal
- ✓a monthly report
- ✓response within 4 business hours
Maximum
- ✓everything in Extended
- ✓12 hours of edits
- ✓weekend coverage
- ✓response within 2 hours, weekends included
Edit hours within a plan expire at the end of the month — this is a monthly retainer, not a cumulative one. Hours beyond the plan are billed at 3,000 ₽ each, or you move to a retainer from the table above where the hour is cheaper.
Frequently Asked Questions
Honest answers without sales spin.
The developer is gone and we have no access. Can you still help?
This is the usual situation and it is solvable while the site is still running: the domain and hosting are registered to the company or to someone reachable, so access is recovered through them rather than through the missing contractor. We start by finding out where everything actually lives — domain, DNS, hosting, mail, code, database. If part of it turns out to be registered under someone else’s name, we say so immediately: that is the first thing to get back, and editing anything before that is pointless.
Will you also tell us it all has to be rewritten?
Only where that is true, and with the reasoning. A rewrite is the most convenient answer for a contractor: it removes the need to understand someone else’s code and turns a small fix into a new project. So we read what exists first and split the work in two: what can be fixed inside the current code, and what is genuinely stuck in the architecture. The second part is usually smaller than it sounds at the first meeting.
What if the code really is bad?
Then we show you where, on specific lines, rather than talking about outdated technology in general. Bad code is not a reason to replace everything: more often one component needs replacing — the one that makes edits everywhere else risky. What to replace and what to keep is your decision, made with our review in hand rather than under deadline pressure.
What happens if a fix breaks something next to it?
On inherited code this is the main risk, and it is handled by how the work is done, not by promises. Before an edit we find everything that depends on the place being changed and fix the whole chain in one pass. Changes go in one at a time and each can be reverted on its own. If the project had no change history and no backups, we set both up before the first edit — that is cheaper than rebuilding a site from memory.
Do the code and the access stay with us?
Yes, and it is not a separate line item. Edits are made in your repository or in your code on your server, the credentials are yours, and the full change history stays with you. You can leave at any moment without buying anything back or asking anyone’s permission — precisely because the opposite situation is what brought you to this page.
Do you work one-off or ongoing?
Both. One-off when the task has an end: fix the forms, update the catalogue, make the layout work on phones. Ongoing when the site is alive and changing and someone has to keep it in their head. Starting one-off is sensible: it shows the state of the project to both sides, and the conversation about ongoing work then happens with numbers instead of impressions.
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