Page and acknowledge
You page the hotline or fire a priority ticket. The on-call engineer acknowledges inside the SLA window for your tier, opens an incident channel and pulls you in with logs, host access and the runbook for your site.
24/7 WordPress emergency support for the UK.
Built for UK SMEs, charities, professional services firms and distributed teams around London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh and teams working nationwide. Rapid triage, safe recovery and a clear incident record when the site cannot wait. We account for plain UK English with accessible, task-focused content, cards, Direct Debit and regulated Open Banking or Pay by Bank providers where they fit the journey, and practical delivery in GMT/BST.
Our approach
WordPress engineers, not ticket rotators .
UK organisations do not need a generic overseas template. They need 24/7 WordPress emergency support shaped around a competitive market where credibility, accessibility and a low-friction enquiry or checkout journey strongly affect conversion, internal ownership and the tools their customers already recognise. Incident response is organised around containment, recovery, verification and a written follow-up rather than an unexplained quick patch.
We run a small on-call rota of WordPress engineers. Every incident routes straight to the engineer on duty with access, context and authority to act. Site down, hacked, database corruption, checkout failing, we triage, mitigate and fix, then write the post-mortem so the same incident does not fire again next month.
- WordPress engineer on call around the clock, not a ticket queue
- SLA response and resolution targets in writing, tracked and reported on
- Emergency hotline and priority ticket lane for production incidents
How it works
From first page to clean post-mortem in four steps.
A practical delivery process for UK teams, with decisions documented in GMT/BST and local operational requirements agreed before build work begins.
Triage and mitigate
We triage impact, scope and blast radius first, then mitigate fast. Rolling back a bad deploy, restoring from last clean backup, blocking a live attack, serving a static cache. Business comes back up while the real fix is still cooking.
Root cause and fix
Once traffic is safe, we drive to the root cause. Database deadlock, broken cron, expired cert, compromised credential, plugin bug. Permanent fix shipped with tests, deploy plan reviewed with you, no overnight cowboy merges.
Post-mortem and prevention
Every incident ends with a written post-mortem. Timeline, root cause, what worked, what did not, and a prevention plan with owners and dates. Recurring incidents get an engineering ticket, not another band-aid.
Built for the United Kingdom
How 24/7 WordPress emergency support works in the United Kingdom
UK SMEs, charities, professional services firms and distributed teams operate in a competitive market where credibility, accessibility and a low-friction enquiry or checkout journey strongly affect conversion. We shape the 24/7 WordPress emergency support around those buying habits, plain UK English with accessible, task-focused content, straightforward proposals, sensible estimates and pricing in pounds, and the systems already used by the team. The result is a practical service plan for teams building trust and sustainable growth across the UK.
Examples
Revenue-critical outage
Restore a broken checkout, booking flow or lead form, then verify the full customer journey before reopening traffic. For teams around London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh and teams working nationwide, we define the local audience, ownership and follow-up route before implementation and account for cards, Direct Debit and regulated Open Banking or Pay by Bank providers where they fit the journey.
Compromised website
Contain suspicious activity, rotate exposed credentials and recover from a known-clean point without destroying useful evidence.
Failed release
Roll back or repair a plugin, theme or deployment failure and document the change that caused it.
Considerations
Privacy and responsible data
We minimise unnecessary collection and document forms, analytics, processors and retention choices with the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018, with security and privacy-by-design guidance from the ICO in mind. Technical implementation supports your compliance work; it does not replace legal advice.
Local operations and integrations
The delivery plan can account for cards, Direct Debit and regulated Open Banking or Pay by Bank providers where they fit the journey, pricing in pounds sterling, plain UK English with accessible, task-focused content, and a UK region when contracts, latency or organisational policy make local hosting preferable. We only add local integrations that serve a real customer or operational need.
Delivery in your working day
Planning, reviews and support are organised around GMT/BST. Incident response is organised around containment, recovery, verification and a written follow-up rather than an unexplained quick patch. Handover is written for the people who will publish, approve and support the site locally.
Local regulatory references are implementation context, not legal or regulatory advice. Your organisation remains responsible for confirming the obligations that apply to its sector and use of personal data.
What's included
Everything needed for real incident response .
- 24/7 on-call rota of WordPress engineers
- Emergency hotline with phone escalation to the engineer on duty
- Priority ticket lane that skips the queue for production incidents
- SLA response and resolution targets by tier, tracked and reported on
- Incident channel in Slack or Teams, shared with your team from minute one
- Site down, hacked, database corruption and checkout failure scenarios covered
- Triage, mitigation, root cause fix and deploy plan on every incident
- Post-mortem report after every call with timeline, root cause and prevention plan
- Monthly incident review of patterns, recurring causes and engineering tickets
- Named account engineer who knows your stack, plugins and release process
How we compare
Why teams page us first when it matters.
A shared host ticket is not incident response. A 9 to 5 freelancer is not on call at 2am. Here is how we stack up on work that actually gets a site back online.
WP Pro Devs
Freelancer
Traditional agency
24/7 on-call rota of WordPress engineers
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Retainer only
Emergency hotline that pages a human
✓
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SLA response times in writing
✓
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✓
Runbook and quarterly rehearsal
✓
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Post-mortem report on every incident
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Same hourly rate day or night
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Starting price
£400 per month
None
£2.5k+ per month
Response time
5 to 60 minutes
Hours to days
Business hours only
WP Pro DevsRecommended
- 24/7 on-call rota of WordPress engineers✓
- Emergency hotline that pages a human✓
- SLA response times in writing✓
- Runbook and quarterly rehearsal✓
- Post-mortem report on every incident✓
- Same hourly rate day or night✓
- Starting price£400 per month
- Response time5 to 60 minutes
FreelancerCompare
- 24/7 on-call rota of WordPress engineers—
- Emergency hotline that pages a human—
- SLA response times in writing—
- Runbook and quarterly rehearsal—
- Post-mortem report on every incident—
- Same hourly rate day or night—
- Starting priceNone
- Response timeHours to days
Traditional agencyCompare
- 24/7 on-call rota of WordPress engineersRetainer only
- Emergency hotline that pages a human—
- SLA response times in writing✓
- Runbook and quarterly rehearsal—
- Post-mortem report on every incident—
- Same hourly rate day or night—
- Starting price£2.5k+ per month
- Response timeBusiness hours only
What clients say
Pricing
Fixed retainer plus clear incident rate .
Monthly retainer covers response, triage and post-mortem with included incident hours. Additional incident hours billed at the published rate. No weekend tax, no hidden call-out fee.
Starter £400 per month
Single WordPress site, business hours response, monthly retainer with a modest incident budget. For brochure and blog sites that need a WordPress engineer when things break.
- Business hours response
- 60 minute acknowledge SLA
- Emergency hotline and priority ticket
- 4 incident hours per month included
- Post-mortem report on every incident
Studio £1,000 per month
WooCommerce or membership site, 24 by 7 response, named on-call. For revenue sites where downtime costs money and the store has to stay open.
- 24 by 7 response
- 30 minute acknowledge SLA
- Named account engineer
- 10 incident hours per month included
- Monthly incident review
- Runbook and quarterly rehearsal
Scale £1,600 per month
High traffic or multisite, 15 minute response, named on-call, standby engineer and monthly incident review. For teams that cannot afford a slow page.
- 24 by 7 response
- 15 minute acknowledge SLA
- Named on-call engineer
- 20 incident hours per month included
- Standby engineer during releases
- Monthly incident review
Enterprise £2,500+ per month
Regulated or mission critical, 5 minute response, dedicated pager rota, audit trail and quarterly incident simulation.
- Everything in Scale
- 5 minute acknowledge SLA
- Dedicated pager rota
- Regulated and compliance scope
- Quarterly incident simulation
- Audit trail and reporting
Quality standards
Every incident ships calm and documented .
We do not close an incident ticket on a green ping. Response has to hold up against real users, real revenue and a real clock.
WordPress engineer every time
Every page routes to a WordPress engineer. No tier one chat bot, no warm handoff to someone learning your stack at 3am.
Acknowledge clock tracked
Every page starts a timer. Acknowledge time against SLA is reported monthly with a breach log and remediation plan.
Mitigate before fix
Traffic comes back up first. Rolling back, serving static, draining a pool. The permanent fix ships with tests, not with a production hot edit.
Runbook for your site
A written runbook covers hosts, credentials, deploy process and known weak spots. Rehearsed each quarter so it actually works when it matters.
Audit trail by default
Every action taken on your site during an incident is logged. Who, when, what command, what result. Ready for any security review.
Communications discipline
Updates every 15 to 30 minutes during a live incident. Plain English, impact first, next step second. No silence, no jargon smoke.
Post-mortem always written
Every incident ends with a written post-mortem inside 72 hours. Timeline, root cause, prevention plan with owners and dates.
Recurring causes fixed
Same incident twice is a bug in our service, not yours. Recurring causes get an engineering ticket, prioritised in the monthly review.
Calm by training
Quarterly incident simulations on internal systems. Our on-call is tested against real scenarios so your real incident is not the first drill.
For agencies
Your clients. Our on-call rota. Your brand.
We are the silent incident team behind agencies that host or maintain WordPress sites. Your clients see your status page, your post-mortems and your brand on every incident artefact. Our name never appears on the pager, the Slack channel or the after-hours call.
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Fully branded delivery
Incident updates, post-mortems and monthly reports carry your brand, not ours.
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Dedicated partner PM
One point of contact across every client. Shared Slack, scheduled reviews, fast replies when sites go down.
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Transparent partner pricing
Per-site retainers, bulk discounts and priority on-call slots for agency partners with recurring incident work.
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Your process, not ours
We plug into your pager, your status page, your ticketing. No tool switching for your team during a live incident.
How it works
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Step 1
Share the client stack
You send host access, monitoring, pager integration and any regulatory constraints on comms and data.
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Step 2
Onboard and partner quote
We audit the site, write the runbook, rehearse the rota and send you a partner rate quote. Never shown to your client.
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Step 3
Add margin, quote your client
You mark up, brand the proposal and present it on your letterhead at your price.
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Step 4
Client approves the retainer
Your client signs off on response times and incident rate with your brand and pays you directly.
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Step 5
We respond under NDA
Silent on-call. No vendor credits, no email signatures, no footer links from us in any incident channel or report.
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Step 6
Deliver as your own
You review the post-mortem, accept handover and ship it to your client under your agency name.
Common questions
What clients ask us about emergency support.
Do you support UK teams during local business hours?
Yes. Planning, reviews and support can be organised around GMT/BST. We agree response expectations, meeting windows and escalation contacts before the project or care plan starts.
How do you account for UK GDPR?
We apply data minimisation, secure handling and privacy-by-design practices to forms, analytics, integrations and hosting decisions. We document the technical choices clearly, while your legal or data-protection adviser confirms the obligations that apply to your organisation.
Is the retainer enough or do I pay per incident?
Retainer covers response, triage, mitigation, post-mortem and a budget of incident hours per month. Beyond that, incident hours are billed at the published rate, same rate day or night. No surprise multipliers, no weekend tax, no hidden call-out fees.
Do you need admin access before an incident happens?
Yes. We onboard fully before the first incident. Host, WordPress, plugin, DNS, email and monitoring access provisioned under a dedicated engineer account. A written runbook for your site is in place, reviewed quarterly, so the engineer on call at 3am knows where the fuse box is.
Can you work with our existing agency or in-house team?
Yes. We are often the escalation tier above a maintenance retainer or in-house team. We coordinate in your incident channel, hand back cleanly once the fire is out and document the work so your team can maintain the fix afterwards.
What about hacked sites or security incidents?
We run incident response for compromised sites. Contain the attack, restore from the last clean backup, identify the breach vector, close it and write the post-mortem. A deep security hardening follow-up is scoped on our Security Hardening page and usually bundled straight after an incident.
Plan your on-call
Tell us which site needs engineer on-call.
Share the current host, revenue impact of downtime and any regulatory constraints. An incident engineer will respond with a retainer outline and a written scope within one business day.
- Free response plan and written estimate within 24h
- Fixed monthly retainer before any on-call begins
- Incident engineer on your account from day one