Response times in writing
Site down is urgent whenever it happens. Everything else is acknowledged the same working day with an honest estimate. Written into the agreement, not implied in a sales conversation.
Web design & development
Website maintenance in Dubai, with the scope written down
Maintenance is the easiest thing in this industry to sell vaguely and the easiest to underdeliver. So here is what a retainer contains, what it does not, and what happens when something breaks at nine on a Thursday night.
Tell us what you need
A senior person reads this and replies within one working day. No call centre, no drip sequence.
Formuläret kunde inte laddas.
Det är vårt fel, inte ditt. Mejla oss i stället så når det exakt samma person.
Support@adnika.comPartners & recognition
The stack we work in, the clients we keep
The platforms we build and run campaigns in, and the clients whose numbers we publish with their names on. HubSpot is the one partnership we claim; the rest are tools we use, not badges.
The problem
Neglect is quiet right up until it is not
Nothing visibly breaks for a year. Then a plugin update collides with a theme override, or someone finds an unpatched vulnerability, and the site is gone on the week of your campaign.
What we are usually called in to fix
Updates nobody applied
WordPress core, plugins and themes ship security fixes constantly. A site eighteen months behind is not stable, it is exposed. We have cleaned up compromised sites where the entry point was a plugin with a patch published two years earlier.
Backups that were never tested
A backup you have not restored is a belief, not a backup. The moment to find out that the database dump excluded a table is not the morning the site is down. We restore to a staging environment on a schedule so the answer is known in advance.
Speed that decayed
A site launches at PageSpeed 95. Two years of images uploaded straight from a phone, four new tracking scripts and a chat widget later, it is at 40. Nobody made a bad decision; twenty small ones added up.
The small fixes queue
A broken link, a form that stopped emailing, a page that looks wrong on one phone. Each is fifteen minutes and none of them is anyone's job, so they sit there for months while the form quietly does not send.
What is included
What a maintenance retainer actually covers
The same list every month, so you can check whether you got it. Anything outside it is quoted before it starts, never absorbed and never billed as a surprise.
Updates, on staging first
Core, plugins, themes and dependencies applied to a staging copy, checked against the pages that matter, then promoted. Updating a live site directly and hoping is not a maintenance process.
Security monitoring
Malware scanning, file integrity checks, login hardening, and a firewall configured for the platform rather than switched on generically. If something does get in, containment and clean-up are in scope.
Backups, and restore tests
Daily database, weekly full, retained off the hosting account so a compromised server does not take the backups with it. Restored to staging on a schedule, and we tell you the date it was last verified.
Uptime monitoring
Checked every minute from more than one location. You hear from us before you hear from a customer, which is the entire point of paying for monitoring.
Performance
Core Web Vitals tracked monthly on real page URLs, not on the homepage alone. When a number drifts we tell you what caused it, including when the cause was a script your marketing team added.
Content and small fixes
A defined number of hours each month for edits, new pages, form changes and the things that never make it onto a project plan. Unused hours are reported rather than silently kept.
Broken links and forms
Checked on a schedule, including that enquiry forms actually deliver to a monitored inbox. A form that fails silently is worse than no form, because you do not know you are losing enquiries.
A monthly report a person wrote
What was updated, what broke, what we fixed, what the numbers did and what we recommend next. One page. Not forty pages of automated charts nobody opens.
Technology
What we maintain, and with what
We maintain sites we did not build, provided we can audit them first.
Platforms
The ones we support on retainer.
- WordPress
- WooCommerce
- Shopify
- Wix
- HubSpot CMS
- Astro
- Next.js
- Laravel
- Static sites
Monitoring
Uptime, errors and real-user performance.
- UptimeRobot
- Better Stack
- Sentry
- Google Search Console
- PageSpeed Insights API
- Chrome UX Report
Security
Prevention, then containment.
- Wordfence
- Cloudflare WAF
- Sucuri
- SSL monitoring
- Two-factor enforcement
Backups
Off the server they protect.
- UpdraftPlus
- Cloudflare R2
- Amazon S3
- Automated restore tests
Hosting we work with
Where clients already are.
- Cloudflare
- GoDaddy
- SiteGround
- WP Engine
- Kinsta
- AWS
- Hetzner
- cPanel and LiteSpeed
How we work
How the retainer runs
Predictable by design. The point of maintenance is that you stop thinking about it.
Finding out what we are taking on
Before any retainer starts: platform version, plugin inventory, known vulnerabilities, backup status, speed baseline and whatever the last agency left behind. You get the findings whether or not you sign anything.
- Vulnerability and version audit
- Backup and restore verification
- Speed and Core Web Vitals baseline
- Written findings, yours to keep
The first month is not business as usual
Bringing everything current, fixing what the audit found, setting up staging, monitoring and off-server backups. Most sites need real work here, and we would rather do it up front than pretend month one is routine.
- Updates brought current on staging
- Staging environment established
- Monitoring and alerting configured
- Off-server backups running
The monthly cycle
Updates on staging, security scan, backup verification, performance check, your fix queue, then the report. Same order every month so anything missed is obvious.
- Scheduled update window
- Security and integrity scan
- Restore test on a rotation
- Your fix queue cleared
- One-page written report
When something actually breaks
A named person, not a ticket queue. Site down is treated as urgent regardless of the hour. Everything else gets a same-working-day acknowledgement with a realistic estimate rather than an optimistic one.
- Named contact, not a shared inbox
- Site-down handled out of hours
- Same-working-day acknowledgement
- Post-incident note explaining the cause
Why us
Why our retainer is different
Mostly because it is specific. Vagueness is how maintenance contracts get underdelivered without anyone noticing.
Backups are restored, not just taken
On a rotation, to staging. We will tell you the date of the last verified restore. Most providers cannot answer that question, which tells you what their backups are worth.
Speed is tracked, not assumed
Core Web Vitals monthly on real URLs. When something regresses you get the cause, including when the cause was a tag someone in marketing added on a Friday.
A named person who knows your site
Not a rotating queue reading a ticket for the first time. The same people who audited it, which is why the answers come back faster.
Industries
Proven results across sectors
Every number below is the count of case studies we have actually published in that sector, and the best result among them. Nothing is a counter.
Selected work
Websites we have built
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German Medical Center
Two disconnected websites rebuilt as one bilingual WordPress site with a HubSpot funnel behind it.
+288% organic traffic
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Roxana Aesthetics
Seventy-two treatment pages in Dubai’s most contested clinical category, built inside DHA advertising rules.
+310% organic traffic
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Elora Polyclinic
One site carrying aesthetics, dentistry and surgery — three audiences, three routes, one design system.
+230% organic traffic
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Arabland
A Dubai property platform with filterable listing search, a map of the city and a mortgage tool.
+220% organic traffic
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Concept Plus
A scroll-scrubbed WebGL scene experience spanning six divisions — and still a PageSpeed of 90.
PageSpeed 90 on WebGL
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Bafco
Office furniture on Shopify, serving a single-chair buyer and a corporate fit-out from one catalogue.
+320% organic traffic
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A2 Sweden
A smart-lock catalogue with parallel routes by product, by industry and straight to the flagship.
+180% organic traffic
View Case Study Where this sits
The rest of web design & development
Maintenance sits at the end of a build, but it is not the only thing we do to an existing site. The rest of the web capability is here.
The hubWeb design & developmentStrategy, design, build and the platform decision — the whole web capability in one place, with the work behind it.
Everything in this service
- Custom web developmentApplications built from scratch when a template cannot carry the logic.
- Shopify developmentStorefronts, checkout work and app integrations on Shopify and Plus.
- Website maintenanceYou are herePatching, uptime, backups and the small fixes nobody has time for.
- HubSpot CMSSites built on HubSpot so marketing can edit without a developer.
- Wix developmentWix and Wix Studio builds, plus rescues of sites that outgrew the editor.
- WordPress developmentThe platform two in five sites run on, built so it stays fast and safe.
- WordPress plugin developmentCustom plugins and integrations when the repository has nothing that fits.
- Web design pricingWhat a website actually costs in Dubai, and what moves the number.
- Web strategy & consultancyDeciding what to build before anybody writes a line of code.
- Website copywritingThe words on the page, written for the buyer and for search.
Client stories
What clients say
On camera and in writing — swipe through the founders and teams we’ve helped design, build and grow.
In their words
★★★★★
GMC is thrilled to extend our heartfelt appreciation to Adnika! Collaborating with Ehsan and his team has consistently been an absolute delight. Ehsan's dedication and commitment have ensured that German Medical Center remains an exceedingly satisfied and happy client, especially regarding their Hubspot Onboarding, Digital Marketing, Website Development, Content Creation and Social Media Marketing. Adnika is indeed the Best Digital and Growth Marketing Agency in UAE!
★★★★★
Adnika provided us with their Inbound Sales and Marketing solutions through Hubspot. They helped us generate more qualified leads for our sales team, drive website traffic, increase customer engagement, and grow our customer base. Adnika is a reliable partner that has always taken our specific goals and needs seriously.
★★★★★
Adnika has helped us plan, implement and optimize ad campaigns on Facebook and Instagram. Adnika is truly committed to Performance Marketing. They provided us with a fantastic dashboard with detailed KPIs that helped us track the campaigns’ performance in real time. Adnika also gave us helpful and dedicated support during the whole project, and the campaigns turned out to be a great success. We highly recommend working with Adnika's growth experts.
★★★★★
We really enjoyed working with Adnika’s team. Not only are they talented, but they all take the time to understand whom they're working with, what they're trying to accomplish, and how to help the business achieve its goals. The quality of work we've experienced has made a huge difference for us and helped drive new business.
★★★★★
Adnika helped Sea Technology with setting up new digital channels, such as Google Search Ads, to attract more customers and leverage our brand. We are very satisfied with the results and we will continue with the implementation of lead generation, marketing automation, and performance marketing.
★★★★★
Working with the Adnika team has been a real pleasure! Extremely friendly, Ehsan and Elin are always available with prompt replies, valuable insights, patience, a problem-solving attitude, and high knowledge. Super easy to work with them. I highly recommend the Adnika team to help your business!
★★★★★
I am an artist, but I also manage a collective of DJs. In order to promote our services to our clients, we needed Inbound solutions that could attract the right traffic and promote the brand. Adnika built and designed our Inbound processes as well as create and manage campaigns on social media and Google Ads which helped us attract many more customers. I’m very happy!
★★★★★
We've been using Adnika growth marketing solutions only for a few months. They are highly professional, competent, experienced, and creative. Get ready to get to work with this agency. They will come alongside you as a business owner and feel your pain and joy! Get ready to transform your business.
Questions
Website maintenance, answered plainly
Including what it costs and what happens the night something goes wrong.
AED 1,500 to AED 12,000 per month covers most of what we are asked to build. The number moves on platform, traffic, how many content hours you want included, and whether the site starts in good condition or needs a stabilisation month first. Anything quoted before those are known is a guess. We scope first, then price, and the scope document is yours whether or not you proceed. These are market ranges rather than a fixed rate card — the proposal carries the real figure.
Because it usually is more. Most sites arriving on a retainer are behind on updates, have untested backups and no staging environment. Fixing that is real work, quoted separately after the audit so you can see exactly what you are paying to correct.
Yes, after an audit. Occasionally the audit finds something we will not take responsibility for — a heavily modified core, or a nulled plugin — and we will say so rather than take the retainer and inherit the risk quietly.
New feature development, redesigns, migrations and content strategy. Those get quoted as projects. Keeping that line clear is what stops a retainer turning into an argument about what was implied.
They are reported so you can see them, and we would rather you used them than lost them. If you consistently do not, that is a signal the retainer is the wrong size and we will say so.
Containment first: take it off the public internet if needed, identify the entry point, clean or restore from a verified backup, patch the hole, then re-submit to Google if it was flagged. On a retainer, clean-up is included. We have done this on live client sites and the write-up matters more than the speed.
They go to staging first and get checked against the pages that matter. If an update breaks something, it does not get promoted, and we find the fix or hold the version and tell you why.
Usually yes. We work with Cloudflare, GoDaddy, SiteGround, WP Engine, Kinsta, AWS and plain cPanel. If the hosting is genuinely the problem we will show you the evidence rather than simply recommending a move.
Administrator on the site, read access to hosting and DNS, and a repository invitation if there is one. Individual accounts per person, never a shared login, so the audit log means something.
Three months, because month one is stabilisation and judging the service on it would be unfair to both sides. After that it is monthly. If you want to leave, you take the documentation, the backups and the access, and we will brief whoever is next.
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Next step
Send us the URL first.
We run the audit before anyone talks about a retainer, and you keep the findings whether or not you hire us.