The Real Cost of Website Maintenance for Businesses in Kathmandu, Nepal

A website is closer to a car than a piece of furniture, and that is a lesson we see play out often with clients across Kathmandu, Nepal: it needs regular upkeep, not a one-time purchase you forget about. A website is closer to a car than a piece of furniture: it needs regular upkeep to keep running safely and well, not a one-time purchase you can forget about. Maintenance typically covers software and security updates, backups, uptime monitoring, and small content changes.

For a standard business website, reasonable monthly maintenance in Nepal runs from a few thousand rupees for basic monitoring and updates to significantly more for e-commerce platforms with active development needs. The right number depends on how much the site changes and how business-critical uptime is.

Skipping maintenance is a false saving. We regularly get called in to fix websites that were abandoned after launch, only to find outdated software with known security vulnerabilities, broken payment integrations after an API changed, or hosting that quietly expired. The cost of fixing a neglected website is almost always higher than the maintenance would have been.