Drupal Website Care

A senior Drupal engineer on retainer — without the agency price tag.

Updates, monitoring, backups, and fixes — handled by a 5× Acquia-certified specialist for a flat monthly fee, starting at $350. About half what agencies charge for the same coverage, with no ticket queue in between.

  • Free 30-minute audit — you keep the findings either way
  • Month-to-month, cancel anytime
  • You work with me directly, start to finish

laleyetolu@gmail.com  ·  +1 (647) 451-0286  ·  Toronto, ON

11+years building on Drupal
Acquia certified, incl. Triple Certified Expert
83%performance gain delivered on one platform audit
9engineers led as a manager at OpenText

The problem

What happens to a Drupal site nobody maintains

Security exposure

Security updates only protect your site once they’re applied. On a care plan, they go in on schedule — you never have to think about them.

Performance drag

Outdated core, stale caches, and aging modules quietly slow the site — costing visitors, leads, and search ranking.

Unpredictable costs

Without a maintainer, small issues pile into an expensive backlog — and every fix becomes an emergency invoice.

The fix: a care retainer works like insurance for your website — one predictable monthly cost, and a direct line to an engineer who already knows your site.

Drupal maintenance plans

Three retainer tiers, sized to your site

Every plan includes me as your direct point of contact — no ticket queue, no account hand-offs. Not sure which fits? The free audit tells you.

Essential Care

Brochure & informational sites

$350 CAD / mo

  • 2 support hours / month
  • Monthly core & security updates
  • Business-hours uptime monitoring
  • Weekly off-site backups
  • Email support · quarterly report
Start with an audit

Enterprise Care

Complex, multi-integration platforms

$2,250 CAD / mo

  • 10+ hours / month, rolls over 2 months
  • Weekly updates · 24h critical patches
  • 24/7 monitoring + real-time alerts
  • Daily backups + disaster-recovery plan
  • Slack + phone · quarterly roadmap
Start with an audit

Starting prices — final quote confirmed after a complimentary site audit. Priced below comparable US agency retainers for the same senior-level coverage. Unused hours roll over up to 2 months; month-to-month, cancel with 30 days’ notice.

Drupal support SLA

When something breaks, here’s the clock

Severity is assessed jointly when the request comes in. Response is when you hear from me; the target is when it’s fixed or mitigated.

Critical · Sev 1

Site down, breach, or data-loss risk — response in 1 hr (Enterprise) · 4 business hrs (Growth) · next business day (Essential). Same-day mitigation, updates every 2 hours until resolved.

High · Sev 2

Core feature broken or major performance loss — response in 4 hrs–2 days by tier; target fix in 1–2 business days.

Medium · Sev 3

Minor bug or non-blocking issue — response in 1–2 business days; fixed within 5 business days or the next update cycle.

Low · Sev 4

Cosmetic issue or enhancement request — logged within 2 business days and scheduled into a future update cycle.

Support hours: Mon–Fri, 9am–5pm ET · Enterprise Care includes 24/7 coverage for Sev-1 issues.

Beyond the retainer

Drupal 7 → 10/11 migrations Security & performance audits Custom modules Integrations UI/UX refresh Docs & training

Who you’re working with

A decade deep in Drupal

I’m Tolu Laleye, a Toronto-based Drupal specialist — formerly Software Engineering Manager at OpenText, where I led a nine-person team shipping enterprise cybersecurity commerce software.

Before that: development manager, consultant, and senior engineer on Drupal platforms across healthcare, travel commerce, and e-learning — including a performance audit that made one platform’s application and search 83% faster.

When you’re on a care plan, I’m the one applying your updates, watching your monitoring, and answering your Slack messages. No hand-offs.

  • Drupal.org contributor (user tolu_) — patches, issue-queue fixes, and documentation for 11+ years
  • 5× Acquia certified — Developer, Front End & Back End Specialist, and Triple Certified Drupal Expert
  • DrupalCamp Montreal speaker — API-first Drupal for enterprise applications
  • Mentor with Kids & Code, HackWorks, and The HTML500

FAQ

Questions clients ask

Do I really need monthly maintenance?

Core, modules, browsers, and attack methods never stop changing. Unpatched sites are the ones that get hacked, slow down, and slide in search rankings. Steady care keeps you secure, fast, and current.

Can’t we handle it in-house?

One skipped security update — or one wrong click — can take a site down. Unless you have a Drupal specialist with spare time on staff, it’s safest with someone who lives in Drupal every day.

Do you support sites you didn’t build?

Yes — most care clients arrive with an existing site. Onboarding starts with a full audit, so nothing surprises us later.

What happens to unused hours?

On Growth and Enterprise plans they roll over for up to two months. Anything beyond your allotment bills at the standard hourly rate, and you can upgrade tiers any time.

We’re still on Drupal 7. Is that a problem?

Drupal 7 is past end-of-life, so it needs extra care — and a migration plan. Both are covered: care now, and an upgrade path to Drupal 10/11 when you’re ready.

How fast can we start?

Discovery call this week, free audit right after, onboarding in about a week. Most sites are under care within two weeks.

Start with a free 30-minute site audit

I’ll review your site’s security, performance, and pending updates on the call — and you keep the findings whether or not we work together. I maintain every client site personally, so I only take on a few new care clients at a time.

Claim your audit slot →

laleyetolu@gmail.com  ·  +1 (647) 451-0286  ·  Toronto, ON