Hosting
Hosting that will not
drop you at the first complaint.
The reason most companions end up rebuilding is not design. It is waking up to a suspension email from a host that never wanted this kind of site in the first place.
- Managed
- TLS included
- Daily backups
- Real support
Why this is its own problem
Mainstream hosts write acceptable-use policies that are vague enough to act on whenever they want to. Most of the time nothing happens. Then a competitor files a complaint, or a payment processor leans on them, and the account is gone — often with the files and the email still inside it.
I host client sites on infrastructure where this is understood up front, so the question of whether your site is allowed to exist was settled before it launched rather than during an incident.
What managed actually means here
Hosting is not a disk you rent. The parts that go wrong are the parts nobody looks at: an expired certificate, a PHP version that stopped getting security patches, a backup job that silently stopped running eight months ago. Those are mine to watch, not yours.
Included
What hosting covers.
- TLS certificates
- Issued, installed and renewed automatically. An expired certificate shows every visitor a full-page security warning, so this one is not left to chance.
- Daily backups, held off the server
- A backup on the same machine as the site is not a backup. Restores are tested, not assumed.
- Platform updates
- PHP, the web server and anything your site depends on stay on supported, patched versions. You will not find out your site runs an end-of-life PHP release by being compromised.
- Email that arrives
- SPF, DKIM and DMARC configured properly, so your contact form does not land in spam and nobody can send mail pretending to be you.
- Performance
- Compression, caching, modern image formats and HTTP/2. Most client sites are a single fast request on a phone connection.
- Monitoring
- If the site stops responding, I find out from an alert rather than from you. Where practical, it is fixed before you notice.
- Your domain stays yours
- Registered in your name with privacy protection. You can move it, and me, elsewhere whenever you like.
- A person to contact
- The same person who built the site. No ticket queue, no tier-one script, no "have you tried clearing your cache".
If you are moving an existing site
Migrations are routine and are usually done with no visible downtime. The order matters: the new copy is built and tested first, DNS changes last, and the old host is not cancelled until the new one has been serving your traffic for a while.
If you have lost access to your current site — the previous developer has gone quiet, the login no longer works, nobody knows who owns the domain — that is a common situation and it is often recoverable. Ask before you write it off and start again.
Honest limits
Hosting here is built for websites: brochure sites, galleries, booking forms, custom tools. It is not the right home for video streaming at scale, a large user-generated content platform, or anything requiring formal compliance certification.
If what you need is outside that, I will say so and point you somewhere better rather than take the work.
Specifics still to be confirmed
Concrete figures — storage, bandwidth, PHP versions offered, backup retention, support response times — are deliberately not printed here yet, because they must match what the business will actually stand behind.
Needs owner input Hosting specifications and any support commitments See archive/research/FINDINGS.md §5
Start your website
Hosting you do not have to think about.
Tell me where your site lives now and what has gone wrong with it. I will tell you whether moving is worth the trouble.
You will be talking to the developer.
Not an account manager, not a reseller, not a chatbot. The person who replies to your message is the person who builds and maintains the site — and who has been doing it for this industry since 2001.