Services Discipline 03

Managed hosting & care

On AWS. Watched around the clock.

A website is not a purchase, it is a running service. Someone has to keep it fast, secure and online, and renew the hundred small things that quietly expire. That someone is us, on infrastructure we manage, so you never log into anything you do not want to.

Why it matters

Cheap shared hosting puts your site on a server with hundreds of others and nobody watching. When it slows down, you lose visitors; when it goes down at 2 a.m., you find out from a customer. When a certificate or domain lapses, the site simply stops.

We host on AWS, configured for the site we built, monitored every minute, backed up automatically, and patched when patches come out. If anything so much as slows down, we are alerted before you would notice. The domain, certificate and email are set up in your name and renewed on time.

Care also covers the ordinary life of a site: updated opening hours, a new team member, a seasonal banner, a page for a new service. Month to month, no lock-in, and you can walk away any time with everything intact.

What's included
  1. 01

    AWS hosting, set up and managed

    Configured for your site, with the caching and security headers that keep it fast and safe.

  2. 02

    Domain, DNS, SSL and email

    Registered in your name, renewed on time, business email on your own domain.

  3. 03

    Monitoring and alerts

    Uptime and speed checked every minute; we are paged, not you.

  4. 04

    Daily backups

    Automatic, tested, and restorable in minutes if anything ever goes wrong.

  5. 05

    Updates and security

    Dependencies, certificates and patches handled quietly as part of keeping the lights on.

  6. 06

    Small changes, included

    Hours, prices, people, photos, a new page now and then. Send an email; it is done the same day.

Questions people ask
01

What if I want to leave?

You get the code, the content and the domain in working order, with no export fee. We will even help the next developer get set up.

02

Who owns the domain?

You do. It is registered in your name from day one, whether you brought it or we found it for you.

03

Is support month to month?

Yes. No annual contract. Most clients keep it because an email that gets a same-day fix is cheaper than their coffee budget.

Next step

One call. We take it from there.