Hosting that stays fast and boring

What's included

Website and application hosting

Static sites, content-managed sites and custom applications, hosted on infrastructure sized to what they actually do. Most small business websites do not need a server sitting idle around the clock, and paying for one is a habit rather than a requirement.

Domains, DNS and SSL

Domain registration and renewals, DNS managed properly, and HTTPS certificates that renew themselves. DNS is where most website outages actually originate — a record edited without understanding what depended on it — so it gets treated as infrastructure rather than an afterthought.

Migrations from existing hosts

Moving away from a host that has become slow, expensive or unresponsive. The site is stood up and tested on the new platform before anything is pointed at it, so the switch is a DNS change rather than a rebuild, with the old host left running as a fallback.

Ongoing care

Updates, backups, certificate renewals and uptime monitoring. Hosting should be uneventful. When it isn't, the value is in reaching someone who already knows how the site is configured.

A note on cost

A lot of small businesses pay monthly for hosting far larger than their site requires, usually because it was set up years ago and nobody revisited it.

A straightforward business website will often run on a free or near-free tier with automatic HTTPS and global delivery, leaving the domain as the only recurring cost. Sites needing a database, a CMS or server-side processing genuinely cost more to run — but the figure should be explainable, and you should hear it before committing rather than discovering it on an invoice.

Where an existing arrangement is already fine, that's what we'll tell you.

Common questions

Will moving hosts take my site offline?

It shouldn't. The site is stood up and tested on the new host before anything is pointed at it, so the switch is a DNS change rather than a rebuild. The old host stays active until the new one is confirmed working, so there's always somewhere to fall back to.

Do I need to move my domain as well?

No. Domain registration and hosting are separate things and can stay with different providers. Often the simplest arrangement is leaving the domain registered where it is and pointing its DNS at the new host.

How much does hosting cost?

It depends entirely on what the site does. A static business site can often run on a free tier with automatic HTTPS, where the only recurring cost is the domain. Anything needing a database, a content management system or server-side processing costs more to run — and we'll tell you the monthly figure before you commit.

Is my email affected if I change web hosting?

Only if it's handled carelessly. Email and website use different DNS records, so a well-planned move leaves mail untouched. Problems occur when someone replaces a whole DNS zone without carrying the mail records across — exactly the kind of thing that gets checked before anything changes.

Do you provide SSL certificates?

Yes, and on most modern platforms they're free and renew automatically. Paying for a basic certificate is rarely necessary these days. Extended validation certificates still have a place in specific circumstances, but very few small business sites need one.