Hosting
The same infrastructure we run our own commercial platforms on. SSL, backups, monitoring, patching and deployment pipelines — handled, so that hosting stops being something you have to think about.
Plans
The band you land in depends on resources and complexity, not on how many pages you have. All prices exclude VAT.
For brochure sites, content sites and small shops.
£15 – £35/month
For live business systems, ecommerce and web applications.
£45 – £150/month
For multi-tenant SaaS and anything with real load.
Quoted
Every project we build includes the first three months of managed hosting at no extra cost, so nothing goes live and then immediately starts costing you money.
What managed means
You can host a site for two pounds a month. Here is what you are not getting for it.
Every site we host is checked around the clock. If it goes down, we are alerted before your customers are — and on managed plans we are usually fixing it before anyone has emailed you.
Daily off-site backups of files and database, with a restore we have tested. A backup nobody has ever restored is not a backup, it is a hope.
Changes get proved on a copy of your live environment first. Nothing goes to your customers because it looked fine on a developer’s laptop.
Frameworks, libraries and operating system packages get updated as part of the plan. Most hacked sites are not clever attacks — they are known holes nobody closed.
CDN, image optimisation, caching and compression are configured properly. Page speed is a ranking factor and a conversion factor, so we treat it as hosting, not a luxury.
You own the code and the data. If you ever want to move, we export everything and help you hand it over. We would rather you stayed because it works.
Moving in
A move usually takes an afternoon and, done properly, nobody notices.
Stack, versions, database size, cron jobs, email records and anything unusual. You get an honest yes or no on whether we can support it.
Files and database are restored onto our infrastructure and tested on a temporary URL. Nothing touches your live site.
A day before the switch, so propagation happens in minutes rather than hours.
DNS points at the new environment at a quiet time, SSL is issued, and we monitor closely for 48 hours before decommissioning anything.
Questions
Including the ones about getting your data back out.
No. You own the code and you can host it anywhere — your own servers, your existing provider, or a cloud account in your name. Most clients stay with us because it means one number to call when something is wrong, but it is never a condition.
Usually. We will take a look at what it is built on first — modern PHP, Node, Python and static sites are all straightforward. If it is on something we cannot support properly we will say so rather than take the money and hope.
Migration is free on annual plans and charged at a half day on monthly ones. We copy files and databases, set up SSL, test everything on a temporary URL, then switch DNS at a quiet time. Downtime is usually zero and never more than a few minutes.
UK and EU data centres by default, which keeps latency low for British visitors and keeps data residency simple. If you need a specific region for compliance reasons, tell us and we will provision there.
We target 99.9% and publish incidents honestly. The infrastructure underneath is the same we use for our own commercial platforms — if it goes down, our products go down too, which is a decent incentive.
We configure DNS for whichever email provider you use — Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace are the usual two — and we will set up SPF, DKIM and DMARC so your mail actually reaches inboxes. We do not run mail servers ourselves; specialists do it better.
Application and platform plans scale automatically within an agreed ceiling, so a mention in the press or a busy weekend does not take you offline. We review capacity with you rather than quietly billing for an overage.
Monthly plans are rolling with 30 days’ notice. Annual plans are paid up front at a discount. No minimum term of two years, no exit fee, no holding your DNS hostage.
Send us the domain and we will tell you what you are currently on, what it would cost to move, and whether moving is even worth it.
