Is there a long contract?
The relationship is ongoing because hosting and management are ongoing, but you're never trapped. Your domain and content are yours.
Small Business Websites
You didn't start a business to learn a website builder at 10pm.

Small businesses rarely have a marketing department. What they have is an owner who already works too many hours and a website that's been on the list for two years.
Our model is built for that reality: we design it, write it, build it, host it and keep it current. You send us the update; it gets done.
A small business site should start focused and expand deliberately. Launch with the pages that matter, then add service pages, city pages and content as the business proves what's worth pursuing.
That's cheaper than building everything at once, and it produces better pages because they're informed by real demand.
Questions
The relationship is ongoing because hosting and management are ongoing, but you're never trapped. Your domain and content are yours.
Then build a few pages. A focused five-page site that converts beats a twenty-page site nobody finished writing.
Tell us what the business needs and we'll tell you what it actually takes.