Managed Hosting
& Care Plans

What "managed" actually means

Cheap hosting sells you disk space. Managed hosting means the boring, essential, easy-to-forget work is somebody's job: certificates renewed before they expire, backups taken and restored to check they work, dependencies patched when a vulnerability lands, and a human who answers when something breaks at four o'clock on a Friday.

Most small-business site failures aren't dramatic. A certificate lapses and browsers start showing a security warning. A plugin update breaks the contact form and nobody notices for five weeks. The disk fills up. None of that requires bad luck — only the absence of anyone whose job it was to look.

The plans

All three are month to month. No setup fees, no annual lock-in, and if you leave you take a working site with you.

Why not the $4-a-month plan

Budget shared hosting works by putting a great many sites on one oversold server. It's genuinely fine for a hobby project. For a business it costs you in three places:

• Time to first byte. On a crowded server your pages wait in a queue. Server response time feeds directly into Core Web Vitals, which feeds into where Google ranks you.
• Untested backups. Most budget hosts take backups. Far fewer verify that a restore works. A backup you have never restored is a hope, not a plan.
• Support that reads from a script. When something breaks you want somebody who knows your specific site, not a queue position and a link to a knowledge-base article.

The honest version: if your website doesn't generate revenue, cheap hosting is a sensible economy. If it does, an outage costs more than the difference in plans.

Moving an existing site over

Migration is included free with any plan, whoever built the site and wherever it currently lives. The process is unglamorous on purpose: a full copy is staged and tested on the new server first, you check it, and only then does DNS get pointed across — so there's no window where your site is down or half-moved. Existing domain and email stay exactly where they are unless you ask otherwise.

On uptime claims

You'll see plenty of hosts advertising "99.9% uptime" as though it were a guarantee. Read what actually happens when they miss it — typically a service credit covering the hours you were offline, which is worth considerably less than the business you lost during them.

So rather than publish a number designed to look impressive, here is the concrete commitment: monitoring every minute, alerts that go to me rather than to you, and a straight answer about what happened and what changed as a result. If your business genuinely needs a contractual SLA with defined penalties, say so during scoping and we'll write one that means something.