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Managed WordPress hosting is infrastructure tuned for one application: fast servers, staging environments, automatic backups, and automatic updates to WordPress core. WP Engine and Kinsta are the best known. They are genuinely good at the job they describe.
A maintenance plan is a monthly retainer, usually from a freelancer or a small agency, covering plugin and theme updates, backups, uptime monitoring, and a small allowance of content edits. It is the most common way a small business keeps a WordPress site from falling over.
Squarespace and Wix are hosted website builders. You choose a template, edit it in the browser, and publish. Hosting, SSL, templates and a domain are included, and no developer is required at any point.
A web design agency takes on a project: research, design, build, launch. Ongoing work afterwards is generally a separate retainer, an hourly arrangement, or nothing at all.
An accessibility overlay is a script added to an existing site. It presents visitors with a toolbar of display preferences such as larger text, higher contrast or a readable font, and attempts automatic repairs to the page. accessiBe and UserWay are the best known.