Managed hosting

Hosting run by the people who built the site.

When the site and the server are managed by the same shop, there is nobody to blame and nothing to escalate. That is most of the value.

What you are actually buying

Hosting is sold on disk space and bandwidth because those are easy to put on a comparison table. Neither is why sites go down. Sites go down because nothing was monitored, nothing was patched, and the backup was never tested.

What we sell is someone paying attention. The server is configured, watched, patched, and backed up by the same people who wrote the code running on it.

Be suspicious of very cheap hosting

If a host can afford to give you unlimited everything for a few dollars a month, the economics only work by packing enormous numbers of sites onto shared hardware and employing nobody to watch it. You find out where the corners were cut at the least convenient possible moment.

Email too, if you want it

We also run private email hosting, which matters for anyone uncomfortable with their business correspondence sitting in a system that mines it. Same principle: a service we operate, not one we resell and hope for.

Included

Every plan, not an upsell.

Cloudflare in front

Global CDN, TLS, and DDoS filtering, so a visitor in Knoxville and a visitor in Seattle get comparable load times.

Automated off-site backups

Taken on a schedule and stored away from the server itself, because a backup on the same machine is not a backup.

Monitoring

We find out the site is down before you do, which is the entire point of paying someone to host it.

Patching and updates

Operating system, web server, and application-level updates applied rather than deferred until something is exploited.

Caching that fits the app

Redis, Valkey, or Memcached for sessions, object caching, and queues — configured for your application rather than switched on by default.

Database tuning

When the database is the bottleneck, caching only hides it. We profile the slow queries and fix the indexes.

Straight answers

Questions worth asking any host.

Why is budget hosting cheaper?

Because you are sharing a server with hundreds of other sites and nobody is watching it. That is a defensible trade for a hobby site. It is not one for a business whose phone rings because the site is up.

Do I have to host with you to work with you?

No. We will build the site and hand it over. Hosting is how we can promise it stays fast and patched, so most clients take it, but the site is yours either way.

Can you move my existing site?

Yes, and migrations are routine. We copy everything, test it on the new server before switching DNS, and keep the old host running until the new one is confirmed working.

What happens when something breaks at 9pm?

You call and reach the person who administers the server. There is no ticket queue and no first-line script.

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Want us to look at your current hosting?

Tell us who you are with and what has gone wrong. If your setup is fine, we will say so.