Hosting run by people who can actually fix it
Commodity hosts sell you a server and a support queue. We host the sites and applications we look after ourselves — which means when something misbehaves at the platform level, the person investigating also understands your code. One team, one phone call, no vendor ping-pong.
What managed means here
Sized & tuned per site
Server configuration matched to what you run — PHP versions, caching layers, database tuning — not a one-size shared box straining under WordPress and hope.
Monitored around the clock
Uptime, errors, disk, certificates — watched with alerting to us, not to an inbox nobody reads. Most issues are fixed before you'd have noticed them.
Backed up off-site, tested
Daily backups kept off the server, with restores actually rehearsed — because a backup you've never restored is a rumour, not a safety net.
Patched & hardened
OS and platform security updates applied on schedule, firewalls and hardening as standard, TLS certificates renewed without drama.
UK/EU infrastructure
Hosted on reputable UK/EU cloud infrastructure for data-protection sanity — and documented so your compliance questionnaires have real answers.
Staging included
A staging environment alongside production, because "test it live" is not a process. Updates and features rehearse before they ship.
Simple numbers, no lock-in
Within our care plans: WordPress hosting from £25/month, Drupal from £45/month. Standalone applications are quoted on their infrastructure needs — typically £75–£300/month for business applications including management, monitoring and backups. Prefer your own AWS account or existing host? Fine — we'll manage there instead, or hand over cleanly whenever you choose. Your domains and data are always yours.
Managed hosting vs. the £5 shared plan — honestly
Cheap shared hosting is genuinely fine for some sites, and pretending otherwise would be salesmanship. If your site is a brochure that changes twice a year and an outage costs you embarrassment rather than money, a reputable £5–£10 shared plan plus our care plan's off-site backups is a defensible setup — we have clients running exactly that, on our advice.
The calculation changes when the site earns. Shared hosting means shared fate: a neighbouring site's traffic spike is your slowdown, their compromise is your blacklisting risk, and support means a ticket queue answered by someone reading the same knowledge base you can. The practical differences with managed hosting are specific: server configuration tuned to your platform rather than the lowest common denominator (proper opcode caching and object caching alone typically halve response times versus default shared configs); a staging environment, which shared plans almost never include and which is the difference between testing updates and gambling them; backups that live off the server and get restore-tested, versus "backups" that die with the disk they're on; and when something breaks at 8am on invoice day, the person investigating already knows your site's name, stack and history.
The honest arithmetic: the gap between a £7 shared plan and our £25 WordPress hosting is £216 a year — roughly what one hour of emergency debugging costs when a cheap host's PHP upgrade breaks your checkout on a Friday. Whether that insurance is worth it depends entirely on what an hour of downtime costs you; we'll tell you plainly which side of the line your site sits on, including when the answer is "stay where you are."
Common questions
Can you migrate us from our current host?
Yes — migration to our hosting is included when you join a care plan: DNS, email records, certificates and a rehearsed cutover with rollback, usually with zero visible downtime.
Do we have to use your hosting to be on a care plan?
No — plenty of care plan clients stay on their existing host, and we work there. Our hosting simply removes the "is it the host or the site?" finger-pointing when something's wrong.
What about traffic spikes?
Caching absorbs most spikes on a well-tuned site; for launches and campaigns we scale resources ahead of time. If your traffic profile needs proper autoscaling, that's a cloud infrastructure conversation we're glad to have.
Where are the servers physically located?
UK and EU data centres on reputable cloud infrastructure, chosen per client for data-residency needs. If a compliance questionnaire needs specifics — provider, region, certifications — we provide them in writing; that documentation is part of what "managed" means.
What happens if we want to leave?
You take everything: the site, the database, DNS control, backup archives, and documentation of how it was all configured. No exit fees, no held-hostage domains — the ugly stories you've heard about hosting lock-in are precisely what we wrote our no-lock-in policy against. Migrations out get the same care as migrations in.
Tell us what you're running — and where
We'll review your current setup and quote honestly, including "your current host is fine" when it is.
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