If you’d rather your WordPress site were hosted by a team that takes it personally, we’re the agency for you. We can help you with hosting, site migration, DNS, SSL certificates, optimisation, email, and everything website-related.
Get hostingAfter spending time and money developing a new site and completing web optimisation, you shouldn’t stop there—your website hosting is just as important as your website.
If you’re wondering why your new site, with all its content and SEO, is failing to rank for even the simplest of keywords, your hosting arrangements could be to blame.
Get better hostingHosting can be complicated, so our managed service means one less thing to have to sort out.
We manage hosting for our clients. We’re not a hosting company, but as WordPress experts, we take care of all hosting-related services, such as websites, databases, DNS, and so on.
We work with SMES to take the hassle out of all website-related IT planning, setup, and management. If you’d rather work on your business than sort out SSL certificates, we can help.
We host every flavour of site, from small personal blogs to mission-critical corporate sites. We tailor the right host for your site, set everything up, migrate your site and optimise it. Job done.
Get help with hostingWe manage hosting for our clients across proven hosting companies, including Pressable (WordPress’ hosting). Anyone can set up a hosting account, but do you want the hassle of managing it?
If you want your hosting looked after by an expert team, book a call with Dave. He’s been managing website hosting since 1997.
There are a few basic questions to ask yourself when looking at hosting options:
In our experience, most businesses, no matter how small, consider their website to be extremely important to their business. Any downtime is seen as an issue, and the site must not be slow.
This suggests that all websites are important to their owners, and therefore, it is not logical to host such an important marketing tool on cheap hosting.
If you are paying less for your hosting than your mobile phone contract, you are doing something wrong.
The larger the website, the more space you will need to host it, which can affect its performance.
Hosting companies that offer unlimited storage should be avoided. They offer this to everyone, which slows down servers.
If you have a large site with many pages or you host many files on your site, you will need a hosting account designed for this.
Many of the ‘pile it high sell it cheap’ hosting providers host 100s of sites on the same server: if one of them hs a problem, then your site has a problem – you don’t want that.
Complex websites with additional functionality, such as the excellent WooCommerce plugin, can be processor-heavy and need hosting to accommodate this.
Like your laptop, if you try to get your server to do too much, it can slow down and eventually crash; hosting is no different. Complex websites need better processors, more RAM and an advanced setup.
Ideally, you want hosting that can scale with demand, and this is something we can help with.
If your customers are mainly UK-based, you want your website hosted in the UK or at least a UK-based cache. Ideally, your site should be hosted in the same country as your customers, whilst this is not quite as important as it used to be (data centres are global), it can make a difference.
The main reason for this is to reduce latency and make your site load faster, but there are other benefits that we’ll cover.
Get better hostingIf it does, you will need some technical knowledge to fix it, which is why over 150 businesses of all sizes choose to have us manage their hosting.
Some hosting companies have a favourite phrase:
If your website is down, you will need to contact your web developers.
This happens all too often on less reputable hosting—the hosting support team simply pushes you away to your website developers, who then push you back to the hosting company.
This inevitably puts you in the middle with no solution and seemingly no one to resolve the issue.
When we manage your hosting, we take it personally and get any issues fixed for you, fast.
Let us manage your hostingThis arrangement works well when the site is larger or more complex, and our client wants to have the hosting contract under their management.
We have full server access to manage the server and charge a small monthly or annual fee to manage the hosting environment on their behalf.
Get hybrid hosting managementWhen hosting works, it works. It can take a lot of time to get things working when there’s an issue.
Rather than waiting for a reply to a support request or battling with an AI automated assistant, you just call us instead on 01295 266644 and we get everything sorted for you.
Book a hosting consultationWill abandon your website if it takes more than 4 seconds to load.
Will not come back to your website if it does not perform well.
Who are dissatisfied with their visit will shop elsewhere next time.
Reduces customer satisfaction by 16%.
A 2-second delay in load time during a transaction resulted in abandonment rates of up to 87%
Site speed is a factor in search engine rankings. Slow-loading sites may be penalized in ranking algorithms.
We offer more than simple off-the-peg hosting packages. If you have a larger, mission-critical website, we can tailor a package just for you on your own dedicated server.
As we build bespoke WordPress sites, we offer bespoke hosting to match.
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It’s well known that website speed is a key factor in Google’s algorithm when deciding which websites to rank.
Using cheap website hosting can mean that your site is facing an uphill struggle as free or cheap hosting accounts will affect the following:
Moving your site to our managed hosting could not be easier it’s free.
We’ll get your existing site, move it to our servers, test it, push it live and take care of all the DNS and post-migration checks as part of the service.
When we host your website, your site will live on what we think is some of the best UK website hosting.
We use UK-based data centres (as well as global CDNs), and we are your first point of contact for anything hosting-related.
For non-WordPress sites, there are alternative types of web hosting available, so we can discuss the options – whatever your site is built with.
Get better hostingWe also have our own server support staff that are responsive and (as we are a big customer) we get preferential treatment.
We’ve found that simply by moving sites to our hosting we improve the Page Speed score of that website by up to twenty points – good hosting really does make a difference.
Get better hostingIf you’re a smaller business, you probably do not have a dedicated IT person, so is your time best spent dealing with hosting and ensuring everything is optimised and working perfectly? Probably not.
It’s just got to be fast—there’s no other option regarding hosting. Slow sites rank poorly and bounce visitors, so all that hard work you put into getting the site live in the first place can be wasted by using inferior hosting.
As we host many websites, we benefit from queue-jumping if we need to contact the server techs. We also speak their language, so we deal with them if required, rather than you.
100% uptime is achievable, but servers need maintenance too, so most hosting companies are more realistic with 99%. Our servers monitor your site, so we’ll fix it quickly if it goes down.
Ever wonder why the best hosting companies don’t advertise on TV? Hosting providers like Ionos and GoDaddy invest in their marketing rather than their infrastructure.
The best hosting companies are not household names; they are seriously geeky, tech-driven companies that know they will go out of business if they don’t provide the best.
Your hosting can make or break your site, so investing more in properly managing it can pay dividends.
Book a hosting consultationWith over 25 years of experience managing hosting, we’ve kissed many frogs, so we now only use the best for our managed hosting services.
The platforms we use to host sites all provide the following:
For larger sites, there are lots more optimisation options, redundancy and bespoke hosting platforms.
We host many sites, from a large Housing Association with tens of thousands of monthly visitors to small personal blogs.
Get better hostingHosting is hosting; site management and technical support and updates are different, so we provide a service called SiteCare to help our clients with their WordPress installation.
Charges start from £40 ex VAT per month.
More about website maintenanceSimply put, it’s where we look after everything for you. From migrating the site to keeping the hosting up-to-date. We do the lot, so it’s one less thing you need to be concerned with.
No, we only provide website hosting and recommend to our clients that their email is best managed via another service like Google Workspace or Office365.
Providing your site is WordPress, the migration to our servers is included in the cost of your hosting. There are no additional changes for migrating your site or updating your DNS.
No, an SSL certificate for your site is included in your hosting package – there are no additional charges for certificates.
Depending on your package, you can have a production, staging and development environment for your site. The site can be pushed/pulled to each one of these environments at the click of a button.
Yes. 30-day rolling site backups with one-click backup and restore options available.
Yes, we have options for all sites, from the smallest brochure site to the largest mission-critical sites. We will suggest the best options for you based on your requirements.
We use Google Datacentres and Global Caches in London. Everything is served in the UK to reduce latency and increase speed. If your market is outside the UK, we can choose a more appropriate server location.
Depending on your hosting package, yes. You can access hosting, backups and even our hosting support chat. We keep everything open and accessible.
It can be, but when you take in the time and experience needed to manage hosting correctly, it doesn’t work out cheaper, especially if something goes wrong.
Most hosting company support teams have one brief: push the issue back to the web developers. If your hosting company does this, you’ll also have to pay for your devs to fix hosting issues (that may not be their doing).
We indeed can – we call this hybrid managed hosting. We’d have access to your server and manage it for you. If anything goes wrong, we will also liaise with your hosting support on your behalf.