Web Hosting
Hosting shouldn't be your job
Nobody started a business because they wanted to renew an SSL certificate.
Yet here you are some evening, logged into a control panel you last saw eleven months ago, trying to remember which of five near-identical products you’re paying for, while a bar at the top warns that something expires in four days.
It’s a second job you never applied for.
What "managed hosting" is supposed to mean
The phrase gets used loosely. Before you pay anyone, get a straight answer on all seven:
- Someone watches the site’s uptime, and it isn’t you at 11pm.
- The SSL certificate is installed and renewed automatically.
- Backups are taken regularly, stored off-site and tested.
- The platform and its components get patched as fixes ship.
- Someone monitors security and notices if something changes.
- Domain and DNS renewals are handled, so a lapsed domain never takes you offline.
- A human answers, and they’ve seen your site before.
If any of those are “available as an add-on,” the word managed is doing a lot of unearned work.
The failure nobody plans for
It’s usually undramatic: an expired card on file, a renewal notice sent to an inbox nobody reads any more, or a plugin that updated itself into a white screen on a Saturday.
These things happen because nobody was clearly given the job, and hosting is something everyone assumes someone else is watching.
The question worth asking
Whoever hosts your site, ask them one thing: “If the site went down at 9am on a Monday, who would notice first, you or me?”
If the honest answer is you, your site is being stored and nobody is managing it.
One team, one bill
We build sites and host what we build. Uptime, SSL, backups, updates and monitoring all come in one annual bill with no tiers to decode, so you can go back to running your business.
Want a straight answer about your website? We’ll tell you what’s working, what isn’t, and the top three things to fix. Free, no pitch.
If you already have a host and just want to know whether you're covered, ask us. We'll give you a straight answer, even if it's that you're fine where you are.