Real people in Midlothian, Virginia, near Richmond, keep your site fast, secure and up to date. One monthly price, and no teaser rates.
Plans from $30/mo billed yearly, or $40 month to month.
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Websites built
1,000s
Leads delivered
5.0 out of 5 stars
Google rating
2007
In business since
Trusted by businesses across Virginia and beyond
Hosting plans
Talking Monkey hosts and manages WordPress sites for small businesses and nonprofits across Virginia. Every plan gets the floor below. Moving up means we take on more of the site work: first content swaps, then new pages from your templates, then new templates and custom work.
The floor. No plan goes without it.
99.9%
Uptime target
Measured every month.
On our server and network, every calendar month. Scheduled maintenance isn't counted, and neither are problems caused by a change to one site, like a plugin update. We still get the alert within a minute and work on it like an outage.
Who makes changes
You do, or we bill per request
We keep the lights on. You run the show. Edits you hand to us are billed per request.
$30 /mo
$360 billed yearly
$30/mo billed yearly ($360), or $40 month to month.
Most popular
Who makes changes
We swap your content
Hands off. Send us text, photos, hours or prices and we swap them in.
$63 /mo
$756 billed yearly
$63/mo billed yearly ($756), or $84 month to month.
Who makes changes
We build from your templates
New sections and pages, built from the templates your site already has.
$120 /mo
$1,440 billed yearly
$120/mo billed yearly ($1,440), or $160 month to month.
Who makes changes
We build new, custom work
New templates, new layouts and custom development, with all the Lead Monkey tools.
$420 /mo
$5,040 billed yearly
$420/mo billed yearly ($5,040), or $560 month to month.
Full service
Everything in Growth+, plus Review Monkey, a custom WordPress backend, sub-domains and third-party troubleshooting.
$651 /mo
$7,812 billed yearly
$651/mo billed yearly ($7,812), or $868 month to month.
Custom-scoped
Dedicated server resources, custom integrations, full automation and a custom SLA.
$1,000+ /mo
Quoted per project
From $1,000/mo, quoted per project.
Your pick
Essentials: $63/mo, billed yearly at $756
501(c)(3)? Basic is free, and every other plan has nonprofit pricing.
Nothing hidden, nothing to wade through. Pick a category, then tap any row for the detail and what other hosts charge for it.
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| Infrastructure | Basic | Essentials | Premium | Growth+ | Authority | Enterprise |
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Our server and network, measured every calendar month. Scheduled or known maintenance isn't counted, and neither are problems caused by a change to one site. We still get the alert within a minute. |
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Around the clock. If your site goes offline at 2am, we know by 2:01am. |
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Included, with no renewal fees.Elsewhere: Free year one only at some hosts, then billed |
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Files, databases and DNS, tested before we switch.Elsewhere: About $150 per site at some hosts |
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We manage your DNS records. Changes handled on request. |
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| 10 GB | 20 GB | 30 GB | 40 GB | 50 GB | Custom | |
Allocated per account. More storage on Enterprise. |
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| Monthly | Weekly | Daily | Daily | Daily | Daily | |
Automatic backups on a schedule matched to your plan. |
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| Included | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included | |
Backups are kept in two places: with our hosting provider and with a separate cloud provider. If one is ever lost, the other is there. |
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| Security | Basic | Essentials | Premium | Growth+ | Authority | Enterprise |
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| Included | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included | |
Now on every plan. We handle every update.Elsewhere: About $10/mo per site as an add-on |
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Locks out repeated failed login attempts. |
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Regular scans with our security suite.Elsewhere: $149-549/yr per site for security services |
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Blocks traffic from high-risk regions and keeps comment spam off your site. |
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| Not included | Homepage | Homepage | Five pages | Five pages | Five pages | |
We take visual snapshots of your pages before and after each update. |
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Server-level rules, access controls and threat detection. |
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Our complete plugin stack, configured for your site and maintained. |
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| Site work | Basic | Essentials | Premium | Growth+ | Authority | Enterprise |
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| Billed | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included | |
Text, photos, hours, prices and small layout changes.Elsewhere: Agencies: $100-149/hr |
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New sections and pages, built from the templates your site already has. |
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New page templates and layouts, designed and built to your specs. |
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Custom functionality, scoped and reviewed by our team. |
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Your admin simplified and built around how you work. |
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Sub-domain setup, plus troubleshooting for the plugins and tools connected to your site. |
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Connections to outside platforms, scoped and quoted per project. |
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| SEO and speed | Basic | Essentials | Premium | Growth+ | Authority | Enterprise |
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The technical baseline, set up and kept current. |
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Caching and tuning on Premium and up. Cached pages on our server answer in about 0.15 seconds. Google suggests 0.8 or less.Elsewhere: About $20/mo per site as an add-on |
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Serves your files from locations closer to your visitors. |
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Your WordPress login styled to match your brand. |
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| Support | Basic | Essentials | Premium | Growth+ | Authority | Enterprise |
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| Email + Portal | Priority | Priority | Priority | Priority | ||
Email on every plan, plus the Horizons Portal from Essentials up. Premium and up get priority routing. |
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| 72 hrs | 48 hrs | 48 hrs | 24 hrs | 24 hrs | 24 hrs | |
Target for our first reply during business hours (Mon to Fri, 9 to 5 Eastern). Not a fix time. Guaranteed only in a signed service agreement or SLA. |
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| Not included | Included | Full | Full | Full | Full | |
Send us work, track progress, find shared files and see reporting. |
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Scope and deliverables, in writing. |
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| Not included | Not included | Not included | Available | Available | Included | |
Contract terms written to your requirements. Available on Growth+ and Authority, included with Enterprise. |
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| Add-ons | Basic | Essentials | Premium | Growth+ | Authority | Enterprise |
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| $99/mo | $99/mo | $99/mo | Included | Included | Included | |
CRM, booking, email, social, reporting, forms and chat at $99/mo per tool, plus the mobile app. Details at leadmonkey.app. |
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| $264/mo | $264/mo | $264/mo | Included | Included | Included | |
$198/mo when billed annually. |
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| $99/mo | $99/mo | $99/mo | $99/mo | Included | Included | |
Review campaigns, monitoring, responses and NFC tap cards.Elsewhere: $95-399/mo at review platforms |
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| Add-on | Add-on | Add-on | Add-on | Add-on | Add-on | |
We create, schedule and publish for you. Quoted per client. |
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Total cost
Hosting looks cheap until the add-ons, fees and renewal jumps show up. Here is what's already in your price with us.
Prices from each company's own pricing page, checked November 2026. No teaser rates, multi-year lock-ins or per-seat pricing. If our prices ever change, we tell you before your renewal.
Typical add-on pricing vs. Talking Monkey
| Item | Elsewhere | With us |
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| SSL certificate | Free year one, then billed | Included |
| Site migration | About $150 per site | Included |
| Intro pricing | $2-6/mo, then $10-12/mo | No teaser rates |
| Plugin updates | About $10/mo per site | Every plan |
| Security and firewall | $149-549/yr per site | Every plan |
| Content updates | $100-149/hr | Essentials+ |
| Support that knows you | Chat only on some entry plans | Every plan |
| Hidden extras, first year | About $500 to $1,100 | $0 on Essentials+ |
Someone who knows your site picks up. Not a bot, not a rotating agent. A person who remembers your last conversation.
SSL, migration, backups and DNS come with every plan. No teaser rates, and we tell you before any price change.
When we're in your site, we own the outcome. If something breaks, we fix it. No finger-pointing, no bill.
The Horizons Portal shows major work, progress and shared files. No chasing us for updates.
5 out of 5 stars
"After the launch of our new website, Micah and Kevin are there to answer any questions I have any time and day with their prompt responses. I feel the support from this team 100%."
"Their team is knowledgeable, responsive, and clearly understands how to generate results. We've seen a noticeable improvement in our online presence and lead flow since working with them."
"They are responsive and available. They are not just someone we hire, they are trusted partners in our mission."
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A real conversation with our team in Midlothian, Virginia. If a different plan fits better, we'll say so.
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Files, databases and DNS. We test everything before we flip the switch.
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SSL, security, backups and monitoring, set up and live on every plan.
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Speed, security scans and backup checks, then a summary of what we did and how to reach us.
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Monitoring, maintenance and a team that never makes you explain your setup from scratch.
Leads don't book themselves. CRM, booking, email, chat and more, included on Growth+ and up or $99/mo per tool on any plan.
Visit Lead MonkeyReview campaigns, monitoring, responses and NFC tap cards. Included on Authority, or $99/mo on any plan.
Visit Review MonkeyNever. We handle files, databases, DNS and testing, and confirm your site runs before we switch. Migration is included with every plan.
We check every site every 60 seconds. If yours goes offline at 2am, we know by 2:01am. We don't have an overnight team, and we're honest about that. During business hours the alert goes straight to the team. After hours, it's at the top of the list when the next business day starts. If the worst ever happens, your site is backed up in two separate places.
It's the bar we hold our server and network to every month. Your site's monitoring report may show short blips during scheduled or known maintenance; those don't count toward the number, and neither do problems caused by a change to one site, like a plugin update. We still get the alert within a minute and work on it like an outage. If your organization needs uptime written into a contract, a custom SLA is available on Growth+ and up.
It comes down to who makes changes. On Essentials, you send us content and we swap it: text, photos, hours, prices. On Premium, we also build new sections and pages from the templates your site already has, and we work on speed, the CDN and technical SEO. Essentials keeps your site healthy. Premium makes it better.
Not on Basic, Essentials or Premium. Pay monthly, or pay for the year and save 25%. Growth+, Authority and Enterprise include a service agreement that spells out scope and deliverables.
Talk to us. A one-time request outside your plan? We'll quote it honestly. Becoming a pattern? We'll recommend the right plan. We'd rather have a conversation than surprise you with a bill.
Yes. Basic is free for qualifying 501(c)(3) organizations, and every other plan has nonprofit pricing, monthly or annual. We've supported the Richmond nonprofit community since before we charged for hosting.
Yes. Every plan, no renewal fees. We think charging for SSL today is absurd.
Premium builds from the templates your site already has. Growth+ is for new, custom work: new templates, new layouts and custom development, with all eight Lead Monkey tools included. If you already pay for Lead Monkey tools on Premium, the math usually points to Growth+.
Yes. $99/mo per tool, or all eight for $264/mo. Growth+ and up include them.
You talk to people who know your site. Not rotating agents, not a chatbot, not a queue that starts from zero every time. If you need help, it's an ask, not a bill.
Many hosts advertise a low first-term price that jumps at renewal, then charge extra for migration, security and speed. We don't use teaser rates or long lock-ins, and SSL, migration, backups and DNS come with every plan. If our prices ever change, we tell you before your renewal. Compare the total cost, not the promotional homepage.
When we update a plugin or theme, we take visual snapshots of your pages before and after. Essentials and Premium watch your homepage. Growth+ and up watch up to five pages.
Time to first byte (TTFB) is how long a server takes to start answering. Google suggests 800ms or less. Cached pages on our server answer in about 150ms. Most of a site's speed comes from how it's built: theme, plugins, images and caching. Premium's speed work tunes those.
Your client portal. Send us work, track progress, find shared files and see reporting. On Essentials and up. No black box.
Yes. We host multiple sites for plenty of our clients. If you're bringing more than one, reach out. We offer multi-site discounts and can scope a plan for all of them.
Tell us about your site and where it's hosted now. If a different plan fits better than the one you picked, we'll say so.
Rather talk? Call (804) 464-8896
Uptime target: 99.9% per calendar month for our hosting server and its network connection, as measured by our monitoring. Your site's monitoring report may show downtime that does not count against this target: scheduled or known maintenance, urgent security or stability work, and outages caused by changes to an individual site (such as a plugin, theme or code update), client-initiated changes, third-party services, attacks, or events outside our control. Service credits or refunds for downtime apply only when written into a signed service level agreement (SLA).
Response times are targets for our first reply, not for a fix. Business hours are Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern; a request sent outside those hours starts the clock at the next business hour. A first reply means a person has reviewed your request and told you the next step. Response times are guaranteed only when written into a signed service agreement or SLA.
Annual plans are billed at the stated rate for the full prepaid term. Prices may change at renewal; we tell you before your renewal date.
Talking Monkey | Central Virginia | (804) 464-8896 | hello@talkingmonkeymedia.com