Managed Website Hosting
Hosting, domains, certificates and platform updates for the websites we build, all handled by us. For owners who would rather not think about any of it.
What we look after
The whole layer between your website and the internet sits with us.
Hosting and deployment
Your site runs on our own platform, served through a content delivery network. We push changes live and clear the cached pages that changed, so you never touch a control panel or an FTP client.
Domain registration and DNS
We register and renew domains in your name, hold the DNS records and make changes to them for you. Email, booking tools and the website all read from the same records, so we keep a note of what each one is doing.
Certificates and security updates
HTTPS certificates are issued and renewed automatically on the bare domain and the www version. Platform and security updates are applied by us across every site we host, so there is no plugin queue waiting on you.
Monitoring, backups and recovery
We watch whether the site is responding, back it up automatically and keep the backups away from the server. If a change breaks something, we roll back to the previous version rather than repair it live.
What managed hosting covers
Managed website hosting means the server, the domain, the certificates and the software updates are our job rather than yours. There is no control panel to log into and no renewal notices to act on. If something needs doing, we do it.
That is a different arrangement to buying hosting from a provider. With ordinary hosting you rent the space and everything above it stays yours: the updates, the backups, the security patches, the DNS records, the certificate renewals. Managed hosting moves that whole layer over to us.
The server is the easy part. It is the domain, the DNS, the certificates and the updates that need somebody's name against them.
Web hosting on our own platform
Every site we host runs on our own platform. That matters for hosting specifically, because we are not maintaining somebody else's stack of plugins. There is no plugin update queue, no combination of add-ons that stop working together after an automatic update, and no theme that has to be patched separately from the software underneath it.
Pages are cached and served from a content delivery network, so a visitor gets a copy from a nearby location instead of waiting for the page to be assembled from the database. Images are processed when they are uploaded, resized for the layouts they appear in and served in modern formats. When we publish a change, the cached copies are refreshed straight away, so it is live within seconds and there is no cache plugin to purge by hand.
How this is priced
Hosting is one half of the monthly fee for sites we build and host, alongside website maintenance. One plan, one bill, nothing separate. What the monthly fee covers.
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Domain registration and DNS
We register domains, renew them and hold the DNS. The domain is registered to you, and we will transfer it away whenever you ask.
DNS is the part that catches people out. Email, the website and any booking or payment tools all read from the same set of records, so a change made to fix one thing can quietly break another. We make those changes, keep a note of what each record is for, and set the certificates up so the site serves over HTTPS on both the bare domain and the www version, with one redirecting to the other.
Updates, versions and getting a site back
Platform updates are applied by us across every site we host, so a fix reaches all of them together rather than waiting for someone to notice a notification. Every published change is kept as a version, so any page can be put back to how it was before an edit. Every form submission is kept on our platform as well as emailed to you, so a filtered inbox cannot lose an enquiry.
If a site goes down, the work is the same each time. Confirm whether the problem is the site, the DNS, the domain or the network. Fix the layer that is broken rather than the one that is easiest to reach. If a change caused it, roll back to the previous version instead of trying to repair it live. Then tell you what happened in plain terms, rather than pointing you at a status page.
Sites we host and look after
Every one of these runs on our platform, with the server, domain, certificates and updates handled by us.
R.K Plumbing & Heating
Plumbing, heating and bathroom installation in Brighton. Live at rkplumbingandheatingservices.com.
21 Russell
Training salon in Crawley, West Sussex. Live at twentyonerussell.com.
Elements Hair Salon
Hair salon in Oxted, Surrey. Live at elementslifestyle.co.uk.
Park Row Hair and Beauty
Hair and beauty salon in Brighouse, West Yorkshire. Live at parkrowhairandbeauty.com.
HLS Accounts
Chartered accountants in Cardiff. Live at hlsaccounting.co.uk.
McCrory Hair
Curly and textured hair specialists in Manchester. Live at mccroryhair.co.uk.
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