SSL certificates
Issued, installed and renewed automatically, so nobody discovers an expired certificate because a customer mentions it.
Cloud & Hosting
Website Hosting
Your website is the most public system you run and the easiest one to attack, and a hacked homepage costs you custom as surely as a broken checkout. We host it in the UK, patched, monitored and backed up.
What this protects
The first impression, and the first target
A site that is down, slow or defaced costs enquiries long before it costs you a repair bill.
Staying online
Downtime is lost enquiries. Availability is watched from outside our own network, so problems surface before customers mention them.
The attacks every site gets
Automated probes hit public websites every day. A patched platform and a firewall are what stop them landing.
Speed, which decides enquiries
Sensible sizing and caching keep the site quick, and a site that loads quickly keeps the visitor who would otherwise leave.
Hosting is not the bit you can forget about
A website is not a static thing that sits quietly once built. It runs software with known vulnerabilities, it collects data, and it is the most public system your business operates. Behind the scenes sit certificates that expire, plugins that need patching and backups nobody has ever tried to restore.
We host sites in UK facilities on managed platforms, with the boring maintenance handled and the security controls in place by default. Your web designer does not need to worry about the server, and neither do you.
What comes with the hosting
Web application firewall
A WAF in front of the site filtering the automated attacks that hit every public website, every day.
Patching
Content management systems, plugins and the underlying platform kept current on a managed schedule.
Backups and staging
Regular backups plus a staging copy where changes are tested before they reach the live site.
Uptime monitoring
Availability and response time watched continuously, with the site checked from outside our own network.
Performance
Caching and a sensibly sized hosting tier, so the site loads quickly rather than making visitors wait and leave.
What a decent host should offer
- Automated SSL with renewal handled for you, not a calendar reminder
- A web application firewall standing in front of the site
- Patched CMS and plugins, scheduled rather than noticed
- Backups held offsite with a restore path you have actually tested
- A staging environment where changes are checked before they go live
- Someone to call when the site goes down, rather than a status page
Questions we get asked about Website Hosting
Yes. We host the site and keep the platform secure and online. Your designer works on it as normal, and we can give them a staging environment to test in.
No. We host and protect them. If you need a site built or redesigned we can point you toward designers we have worked with, but our job is the platform underneath.
A combination of patching, a web application firewall and hardening the platform. Most small business site compromises exploit an outdated plugin, which is exactly the problem scheduled patching removes.
Usually. Budget shared hosting oversells its resources. Moving to a properly sized tier with caching in front normally shows up as a quicker site.
You take it with you. The code and the data are yours, and we will help you move without holding your own website hostage.
Not sure whether you need website hosting?
Book a free 60-minute health check. We will tell you what you actually need, including when the answer is nothing.