Hours or a monthly plan: in MyBriskHow it works

Maintenance and hosting.
Your site keeps running, we keep watch.

Hosting on European servers, SSL, daily backups and updates: from €25 per month. From Growth (€69), a monitor keeps an eye on your site and you get hours for changes every month. Buy extra hours in MyBrisk at €75 per hour, or through your dedicated contact person.

Choose your planBook a free call

All prices excl. VAT.

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Demo: one day in the life of the webshop koffievennegem.be, sped up. At 03:00 a backup is made, at 03:12 a security update is tested in the test environment and at 08:40 it goes live, at 06:00 the SSL certificate is renewed, at 11:58 the CDN absorbs a peak of visitors after the newsletter, at 14:20 the monitor spots a slow page and Brisk fixes it, and at 16:05 Lotte requests a new banner in MyBrisk that is live at 16:40, for 0.5 hours of her Growth hours. Use the slider and the buttons below to go to any moment of the day.

Tue, Oct 6
Demo · Koffiebranderij VennegemExampleSped up

Hosting you don’t notice. Except in the speed.

Hosting is where your site lives, and the route every visitor takes to see it. We keep that route short, secure and open. Follow one visitor below, step by step.

  1. Someone in Genk clicks Ethiopia Guji in your webshop. From that moment on, every millisecond counts.

    For your IT team

    GET /shop/ethiopie-guji · HTTP/2 · accept-encoding: br

Click a step or switch between with and without a CDN.

Demo · Koffiebranderij VennegemExample

A diagram of one request: visitor, DNS, CDN, server and database, with a waterfall chart. Example times: without CDN 162 ms, with CDN the first time 115 ms, with CDN from cache 44 ms.

What’s in Basic

Basic: €25 per month, excl. VAT

  • Hosting on European servers

    Your site, your database and your files are on servers in Europe, with a CDN in front that serves your visitors fast.

    EU region · CDN for pages and images · database not publicly reachable

  • SSL

    The padlock in the address bar: everything between your visitor and your site is encrypted. The certificate renews automatically, so you never have to think about it.

    TLS 1.3 · renewal via ACME · http → https · HSTS

  • Daily backups

    A backup of your site and your database every day. If something goes wrong, we restore it.

    database and files · restored to the test environment first

    How we restore a backup

  • Updates

    Security updates and new versions of everything your site runs on. Tested first, only then live.

    update PRs (e.g. Renovate or Dependabot) · staging first · rollback possible

    How we test updates

Your own domain name, or moving your existing one? We’ll help you with that.

Growth and Partner add uptime monitoring, hours for changes and a monthly report. Compare the plans

A backup every night. And we actually restore it.

Something deleted by accident, an import gone wrong, an update that breaks something: it happens. That’s why we back up your site and your data every night, in every plan. Need something back? We restore it to the test environment first. You take a look, and only then does it go live.

Demo · Koffiebranderij VennegemExample
Backupskoffievennegem.be

LotteKoffiebranderij VennegemMyBrisk09:42

Help! The Beans category is gone from the webshop. I think I deleted it by accident yesterday.

Audit log · Mon Oct 5, 10:14Lotte deleted the category “Beans” (4 products)

Nightly backups

Last 14 nights, every night at 03:00

Tue, Oct 6 · 03:00

Size
1.84 GB
Duration
2 min 06 s
Checksum
82ae…04d5
Copies
2 locations
Orders since
4

This backup is from after the deletion: the category is missing here too. Pick an older one.

What to restore?

  • Nothing changed since this backup

  • +1 category, 4 products linked again

  • 4 new orders stay put

Why not just restore everything? Because then you’d also lose the 4 orders placed since. We only bring back what’s missing.

  1. 1Backup
  2. 2What
  3. 3Test
  4. 4Live
Orders since the backup4latest #10482 at 09:38

Pick a backup from before Oct 5, 10:14

Restore log

Nothing restored yet.

Try it yourself: pick a backup, choose what comes back and restore it to the test environment first.

What you can expect from our backups

Every night, automatically

Your database and your files, automatically every night. That’s in every plan, Basic included.

Database dump + files, with a checksum per backup

Stored in another location

A copy is kept separate from your site’s server. If something goes wrong with that server, your backup doesn’t go down with it.

Offsite copy, separate from the production server

We test that restoring works

A backup is only worth something if you can restore it. That’s why we regularly restore one to a separate database and check that everything is there.

Restore test in a separate database, row counts compared

Lost something? Just ask

In MyBrisk or through your dedicated contact person. We only bring back what’s missing, in the test environment first.

Selective restore: only missing rows, staging first

Daily backups are in every plan, from Basic at €25 per month. How long we keep your backups is something we agree on together.

See the plans

// UNDER THE HOOD

This part is mainly for your IT team. Each time, you’ll find it in plain words too. Skip to the plans

Updates that get tested first. Not on a Friday night with fingers crossed.

Your site runs on dozens of software packages. When a security hole turns up in one of them, we prepare the update, test it automatically and in a test environment, and only then does it go live. If a test fails, your site simply keeps running on the previous version.

Example of an update pipeline for koffievennegem.be (a demo webshop): a security advisory for a package comes in, an automatic update request changes package.json and the lockfile, automated checks (build, tests, visual comparison, Lighthouse) run, the update goes to test.koffievennegem.be and is checked, goes live at a quiet hour with a button to roll back, and the monitor checks the live site. In the second scenario, the visual check fails and the update stops before the live site.

Demo · Koffiebranderij VennegemExampleSimplified
Maintenance · koffievennegem.beSped up
Security update@voorbeeld/img-resize 3.4.1 → 3.4.2Running

Advisory

Mon, Oct 5, 04:20 PM
Security advisorySeverity: highVOORBEELD-2026-0142

A crafted image file can make the server hang

npm · @voorbeeld/img-resize

Affected
< 3.4.2
Fixed in
3.4.2
Used for
resizing product photos
Received
Mon, Oct 5, 04:20 PM
$ npm audit

What does this mean? Someone could use a specially crafted photo to make your webshop hang. The makers of the package released a version that closes the hole.

Click a step to see what happens.

Tested, approved, live at a quiet hour.

The update takes the same route as every change: automated tests, a test environment where we check it ourselves, and then live at the quietest hour. If something goes wrong anyway, the previous version is ready and we roll it back in one click.

For your IT team

  • One pull request per update, never straight to main
  • Build, tests, visual comparison, Lighthouse
  • Deploy to test, then to production
  • Previous build stays ready for a rollback

What else maintenance covers

Packages up to date
We prepare security updates right away. Regular updates wait a few days first, so a hijacked new release doesn’t make it onto your site.
Dependabot or Renovate · cooldown · lockfile
Versions that are still supported
Software only gets security updates for so long. We keep your site on versions of Node.js and Next.js that are still supported, and plan the switch in time.
Node.js LTS · Next.js Active or Maintenance LTS
Security headers
Short instructions your site gives every browser: only over https, no embedding on other sites, no scripts from unknown sources.
Strict-Transport-Security · Content-Security-Policy · nosniff
An SSL certificate that renews itself
The padlock in the address bar doesn’t expire unnoticed. The certificate renews automatically, well before it runs out, and we check that it worked.
ACME · for example Let’s Encrypt · TLS 1.2 and 1.3
Clearing out what’s no longer needed
Every package your site no longer uses is one less possible hole, and it makes your site lighter. We remove it.
Unused dependencies removed · smaller bundle
After every update, the monitor keeps watch
In Growth and Partner, uptime monitoring checks your live site, including right after an update. If something goes down, we get an alert.
HTTP checks on status code and content

Updates are in every plan from Basic, uptime monitoring in Growth and Partner. The package @voorbeeld/img-resize, the advisory VOORBEELD-2026-0142 and all figures in the pipeline are made up for this example. Brand names belong to their owners.

Plans and pricing

Choose your plan. Or just buy hours when you need them.

Four plans, per month and excl. VAT. More work than your plan covers? Every extra hour costs €75, no matter how many you buy.

Self-managed

You handle hosting and maintenance yourself.

Free

per month · excl. VAT

No hosting or maintenance

Start with Self-managed in the configurator for a new project
  • Your code and dataYou get everything you need to host your site yourself.
  • You handle hosting and updatesHandy if you have your own developers or an IT partner.
  • Want a plan later?You can always switch to Basic, Growth or Partner.

Basic

Hosting on European servers, SSL, daily backups and updates.

€25

per month · excl. VAT

No hours included

Start with Basic in the configurator for a new project
  • Hosting on European serversFast for your visitors, and your data stays in the EU.
  • SSL certificateThe padlock in the browser, always renewed on time.
  • Daily backupsA mistake is never final: we restore it.
  • Updates, tested firstFirst in a test environment, only then live.
  • Changes at €75 per hourYou only pay for the hours you need.

GrowthRecommended

Basic + uptime monitoring, 2 hours of changes per month and a monthly report.

€69

per month · excl. VAT

2 hours of work per month included

Start with Growth in the configurator for a new project
  • Everything in BasicHosting, SSL, daily backups and updates.
  • Uptime monitoringIf your site goes down, we see it too.
  • 2 hours of changes per monthA new banner, an extra page, different photos.
  • A monthly reportIn black and white: what we did and how long it took.
  • Extra hours at €75For the busy months.

Partner

Growth + 6 hours of development per month and priority support.

€179

per month · excl. VAT

6 hours of work per month included

Start with Partner in the configurator for a new project
  • Everything in GrowthMonitoring, monthly report and everything in Basic.
  • 6 hours of development per monthEnough to really keep building your site, webshop or app.
  • Priority supportYour question moves to the front of the line.
  • Extra hours at €75For a bigger project in between.

Already a customer? Choose or change your plan in MyBrisk or through your dedicated contact person.

A bigger project? We do that at €75 per hour or for a fixed price you know up front.

Which plan fits you?

Slide to the number of hours of changes you expect per month. We calculate every plan for you: the plan price, plus any hours beyond it at €75 per hour.

Or pick a kind of month
At 3 hours per month, Growth is the cheapest: €144 per month, excl. VAT.

What fits in 3 hours?

Example
  • An extra page≈ 2 h
  • Update text or prices≈ 0.25 h
  • New photos on a page≈ 0.75 h

Total≈ 3 h

An indication. You get an estimate before every request.

  • Basic

    €25 + 3 h × €75

    €250per month

    no hours included3 h extra

  • GrowthCheapest

    €69 + 1 h × €75

    €144per month

    2 of 2 h included1 h extra

  • Partner

    €179 + 0 h × €75

    €179per month

    3 of 6 h includedno extra hours

Self-managed isn’t listed here: you handle hosting, backups and updates yourself, so it doesn’t compare to a plan.

Hardly ever need anything?

Then Basic with the occasional extra hours is often the cheapest option. Say you have eleven quiet months and one month with 4 hours of work. With Basic, you pay €600 that year; with Growth, €978. That way you choose what suits you, not what earns us the most.

Buy hours or change your plan in MyBriskNew project? Choose your plan in the configurator

MyBrisk: buy hours or a monthly plan. In a few clicks.

In MyBrisk, your customer portal, you buy extra hours when you need them or choose a monthly plan for ongoing support. You also request changes there and follow them until they’re live. Rather not click through it yourself? Your dedicated contact person can take care of it just as well.

Demo · Koffiebranderij VennegemExample

Example of the MyBrisk portal of Koffiebranderij Vennegem, with buying hours, the monthly plan, a request and the invoices.

3.75 havailable

Hours

Your balance for October 2026

Growth hours this month

1.25 h of 2 h used0.75 h left

Extra hours

3 h

Hours you bought separately

Total available

3.75 h

Your plan hours go first, then your extra hours.

Buy hours

Pick a number or set your own.

Quick pick

2 h
2 h × €75.00
€150.00
VAT 21%
€31.50
Total
€181.50

You pay by invoice. No card needed.

Used this month

  • Oct 1Holiday opening hours0.25 h
  • Oct 2New photos Ethiopia Guji0.75 h
  • Oct 5Newsletter discount code0.25 h

Choose how many hours you want and see the cost right away: €75 per hour, excl. VAT. You get an invoice; the hours are added to your balance right away.

Do the math

  • 2 h × €75 = €150.00
  • + VAT 21% = €31.50
  • Total = €181.50

Click through the portal yourself: choose hours, switch plans, approve a request.

Online login to MyBrisk will be activated soon. No access yet? Your dedicated contact person can arrange hours, plans and requests just as well.

Two ways to pay for support

A monthly plan: predictable

You pay the same every month. Hosting, backups and updates are included, and with Growth and Partner also a fixed number of hours for changes.

  • Basicno hours included€25/month
  • Growth2 h included€69/month
  • Partner6 h included€179/month

per month, excl. VAT

Extra hours: flexible

A busy month or an extra project? Buy hours when you need them, as many as you want. Every hour costs the same, even if you buy more.

  • 2 h2 × €75 = €150
  • 5 h5 × €75 = €375
  • 10 h10 × €75 = €750

€75 per hour, excl. VAT

You can also combine them: a plan for the basics, extra hours for the busy months. Which plan fits you?

  • Plan hours first

    A request comes off the hours in your plan first, then off your extra hours. You always see what’s left.

  • Estimate up front

    You know what a change costs before we start. Bigger work? Then you get a fixed price you know up front.

  • By invoice, no card

    Buying hours ends with an invoice by email, not a payment screen. Your monthly plan gets its own invoice.

  • Prefer your contact person?

    Just say so: by email at info@brisk.be or on WhatsApp (opens in a new tab). Your dedicated contact person arranges hours and plans for you.

Monthly report

Every month in black and white what we did, and where every minute went.

Your Growth and Partner plans include a monthly report. One overview in plain language: how your site performed, what we updated and which changes we made, down to the minute. With the technical details for your IT team included.

How your site performed
How often it was up, how fast it responded and how it scores on mobile and desktop.
What we maintained
Every update, tested first and then put live. Every nightly backup. How long your SSL certificate is still valid.
Where your hours went
Every change with the date, who requested it and how many minutes it took. First from your plan hours, then from your extra hours.
What we recommend
What could be better next month, with an estimate in hours. You decide whether we do it.
Demo · Koffiebranderij VennegemExample

monthly-report-2026-09.pdf

Monthly report

September 2026

Koffiebranderij Vennegem

koffievennegem.be · Growth plan · Issued on October 1, 2026

A quiet, good month. Your webshop was up almost all the time, stayed fast on mobile and desktop, and everything is up to date. On September 22, your newsletter brought the busiest day of the month. One page briefly slowed down; we fixed it within half an hour.

Uptime
99.98%
9 minutes down, at night and planned
Server response time
216 ms
on average, fast enough that nobody notices
PageSpeed
94mobile99desktop
out of 100; 90 or above is good
Changes
2.5 h
2 h from your plan + 0.5 h extra

Response time per day

0–400 ms

How fast the server responded, on average per day. Lower is better.

Chart with one bar per day. Use the arrow keys to choose a day.

Up all dayBrief interruption

Tue, September 22

Response time
318 ms
Visitors
2,412
Uptime
all day

Your newsletter brought lots of visitors. At 14:20, the monitor spotted a slow product page; by 14:48, it was fast again.

Also in this report

Prepared by the Brisk teamPage 1 of 3

Flip through the pages, point to a day in the chart and open a task to see exactly what we did.

  • 2 h

    of changes per month in the Growth plan.

  • 6 h

    of development per month in the Partner plan, with priority support.

  • €75

    per extra hour, excl. VAT. You buy them in MyBrisk or through your dedicated contact person.

The report is included in Growth and Partner. With Basic, you get hosting, backups and updates, without a monthly report and without included hours.

Compare the plansHow to buy hours in MyBrisk

An honest comparison

Do it yourself, cheap hosting or Brisk? Sometimes you don’t need us.

Hosting can cost just a few euros a month, and with your own developers you can handle a lot yourself. Here you see what you get with each option, what you have to do yourself and when each option is the smartest. Even when that isn’t us.

What fits you?

Choose your situation. We highlight the option that fits best, even when that isn’t us.

Self-managed

You host and maintain the site yourself, or with your own team.

Cheap standard hosting

A shared hosting package: space on a server, the rest is up to you.

Maintenance by Brisk

We host and maintain your site. You choose the plan.

Plan

Price per month

What you pay every month, not counting your own time.

For your IT team: Plus the hours you or your team put in.

Self-managed

Strong: Nothing to us. You pay for your own hosting and the time of whoever does the maintenance.

Cheap standard hosting

Strong: From free to a few euros a month. Work on your site isn’t included.

Maintenance by Brisk

Possible, with limits: €69 per month, excl. VAT. A fixed amount, with no surprises.

Updates

New versions of everything your site runs on.

For your IT team: Operating system, Node.js, framework and npm packages.

Self-managed

Weak spot: You do them yourself, if you remember. Put them off, and you fall behind on security fixes.

Cheap standard hosting

Possible, with limits: The host keeps its server up to date. Not the code and packages of your own site.

Maintenance by Brisk

Strong: We do them, first in a test environment and only then live.

Restoring backups

Something deleted or broken? How do you get it back?

For your IT team: Files and database, from a point in time other than now.

Self-managed

Weak spot: Only if you set up backups yourself and know how to restore them.

Cheap standard hosting

Possible, with limits: There are often backups. You usually restore them yourself, and often the whole site at once.

Maintenance by Brisk

Strong: Daily backups. We restore what’s needed, first in the test environment.

Security

SSL, access and the weak spots in your site.

For your IT team: TLS, security headers, 2FA and dependencies without known vulnerabilities.

Self-managed

Possible, with limits: Entirely your responsibility. Fine if your team knows how.

Cheap standard hosting

Possible, with limits: An SSL certificate is usually included. The security of your own site is up to you.

Maintenance by Brisk

Strong: SSL, secure settings and two-factor authentication. We keep your site’s packages up to date.

Monitoring

Does anyone notice when your site is down?

For your IT team: An external check that requests your site from outside.

Self-managed

Weak spot: You set it up yourself, and someone also has to read the alerts.

Cheap standard hosting

Weak spot: The host monitors its servers, not whether your order button works.

Maintenance by Brisk

Strong: Uptime monitoring: we see it when your site doesn’t respond, and step in.

Changes

A new banner, an extra page, a form.

For your IT team: Changes via Git, tested on staging, then live.

Self-managed

Possible, with limits: Your own developer, or you buy hours from us at €75 per hour.

Cheap standard hosting

Weak spot: Not included. You find someone who knows your site yourself.

Maintenance by Brisk

Strong: 2 hours per month included. Need more? Extra hours at €75 per hour.

Who do you call when something goes wrong?

And does that person know your site?

For your IT team: Who has access, logs and the code?

Self-managed

Possible, with limits: Yourself, or your own team.

Cheap standard hosting

Weak spot: The host’s helpdesk. They help with the server, not with your site.

Maintenance by Brisk

Strong: Your dedicated contact person, who knows your site. A reply within 24 hours on business days.

The best choice if…

Honestly: when does which option win?

For your IT team: Also depends on how your site is built.

Self-managed

you have your own developers who know the site and have time for it.

Cheap standard hosting

you have a small, simple site that you rarely change and not much depends on.

Maintenance by Brisk

your site brings in customers or revenue and you don’t want to look after it yourself.

Good to know: classic shared hosting is made for simple PHP sites. A custom site or webshop with Node.js and a database doesn’t always fit on it. We’re happy to look at it together.

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How it works

From launch to years later. You always know what’s happening.

Maintenance isn’t a subscription you forget about. Here’s what it looks like, from the day your site goes live to the day you might want to continue without us.

Demo · Koffiebranderij VennegemExample

The examples follow koffievennegem.be, the webshop of a fictional coffee roaster.

  1. Launch

    We put your site live and take care of everything around it: hosting on European servers, an SSL certificate, daily backups and, with Growth and Partner, uptime monitoring. You get your login and know who your contact person is.

    For your IT team · DNS to the new environment, TLS with automatic renewal, scheduled backups of files and database, an external uptime check and 2FA on the admin accounts.

  2. The first weeks

    A new site only really comes to life when the first customers arrive. During those weeks, we keep a closer eye on things and pick up small requests, like a text that could be better or a photo that needs to be sharper.

    For your IT team · We track errors, slow pages and failed forms or payments in the logs, and fix them before they pile up.

  3. Every month

    Updates, backups and checking that everything works, without you having to ask. With Growth and Partner, you get a monthly report with what we did and how many of your hours you used.

    For your IT team · Updating dependencies (for example with Dependabot or Renovate), testing on staging, only then live. Every change is in Git, so rolling back is always possible.

  4. Need a change?

    Request it in MyBrisk or from your contact person. You get an estimate first. If it fits within your plan hours, it comes off those; otherwise you use extra hours at €75 per hour, or we agree on a fixed price for bigger work.

    For your IT team · Changes go through Git and to staging first, with a test link for you. After your approval, they go live; the time spent shows up in your overview.

    Do I have extra hours?
    From your Growth hours
    0.75 u
    From your extra hours
    1.25 u

  5. Every year

    Once a year, we take a broader look: how fast is your site, is everything still secure and what could be better? Together, we look at what’s worth doing and what can wait.

    For your IT team · PageSpeed and Core Web Vitals, supported versions of Node.js and the framework, unused packages and accounts, and a test in which we actually restore a backup.

  6. Want to leave?

    That’s fine. Code, design and data are yours. We hand everything over, so another provider or your own team can take it from there. No lock-in, no discussion.

    For your IT team · The Git repository with the full history, a database export, the uploaded files and the documentation to install the site yourself.

Is your site hosted elsewhere now?

You can switch, even with a site we didn’t build ourselves. We first look at how it’s built and what it needs. Then you get a quote, so you know the cost up front.

Book a free call

Questions about maintenance and hosting

What it costs, what’s included, how you buy hours and what happens if your site goes down. Answered honestly, in plain words. With a line for your IT team underneath.

At a glance

Basic plan
€25/month
Extra hour
€75
Backups
Every day
Servers
In Europe

Prices excl. VAT

What it costs

From €25 per month for Basic. Growth costs €69 and Partner €179 per month; those also include hours for changes. Self-managed is free: you host and maintain your site yourself. Need more work done? Then you buy extra hours at €75 per hour. All prices are excl. VAT. Compare the plans

// For your IT teamPrices per month excl. VATextra hours at €75/hourno volume discount

Hours and your plan

Hosting and security

Switching or doing it yourself

Don’t see your question?

Just ask. We reply within 24 hours on business days.

Click to have the lamp check again.

Launch is just the beginning. We stay with you.

Hosting, backups, updates and one point of contact, from €25 per month. Need a change? It’s covered by your plan hours, or costs €75 per hour.

Book a free callSend a WhatsApp (opens in a new tab)

Free 30-minute call. No obligation. You don’t pay anything yet.

Where are you now?

  • From €25 per month, excl. VAT.
  • €75 per extra hour, every hour the same price.
  • European servers, with SSL.
  • Daily backups.
  • Your code and data. No lock-in.
  • One dedicated contact person.
  • A reply within 24 hours on business days.
  • 5.0 on Google, from 49 reviews