Standard hosting packages that come with very low cost subscriptions from hosting service providers such as GoDaddy, HostGator, blueHost and many others are completely different to the services we provide.
Standard Managed Hosting – Cost
Our hosting charges for most WordPress sites is just $27 a month. If you pay annually up front, we give you a one-month discount, so you only pay for 11 months.
This rate applies to most straight forward websites that have a limited number of static pages. Usually this means less than 50 pages. If you have a larger website and or one with an ecommerce store rates may vary based on the scale and complexity of the site.
See below a list of what is included with hosting.
If you have other sites that use a different back-end (CMS) to WordPress, we can still probably do it but we would need to look at the site first so we know what we are dealing with before we could commit.
Migration and Initial Security Set-up
You will also have an initial (one off) cost of $500 for the initial security set-up, plug-in review, setting up the off-site back-up system and hosting migration. If you have more than one website discounts may apply.
Our Standard Managed Hosting Charges Include the Following
Maintaining the site
- Keeping the site consistent with changes in the way sites need to present, such as mobile optimization
- WordPress updates
- Plugin updates
- Advanced security
- Spam protection
- Offsite backups (and restore if needed)…
- This means that if your website was to get hacked or encounter some other major problem, we can restore it quickly without incurring any additional charges
- Offsite back-ups
- When we run back-ups, we save the back-up to a separate location away from the server where the site is hosted. This is because it is not uncommon that when a site is hacked the back-up on the same server can also be infected.
- Sometimes the entire server including the back-up of your site can go down. By saving copies of your site to a completely different location we increase the likelihood that we can get the site back-up quickly and reliably regardless of the reason for the outage.
Minor edit requests are included i.e.
- Address or phone number changes, text corrections, that kind of thing
- If a you wanted a simple navigational change, or have the form go to a different email address, we would also take care of that at no extra charge
- This applies providing you know exactly what you want and can communicate it clearly to the developer
- If you need help to figure out what you want or the best way to do something, extra charges may apply
Advanced Managed Hosting
Clients on marketing plans with us receive more advanced hosting services as part of their hosting plan. This include many proprietary technical enhancements that help to cause the site to be more competitive and help it to out rank their competition.
DIY Enthusiasts and Self Hosting
Standard hosting packages that come with very low cost subscriptions from hosting service providers such as GoDaddy, HostGator, blueHost and many others are completely different to the services we provide as described above.
When we provide ‘managed hosting’ you get an assigned web developer who will take responsibility for the site. This means that if there is a problem, they will fix it for you. There will be no extra charges for this process. We will keep the site up to date with the latest technology, security tools and security methodologies. We will back-up the site regularly and restore the site if needed, without you incurring any additional charges.
When you ‘self-host’ using a personal plan with providers like the ones mentioned above this means you are taking responsibility for your own website. Should a problem occur you will need to work with the support department at the hosting provider.
What About SSL?
We can also implement SSL for you. The cost of that service is $185 annually.
Nowadays SSL is a necessity for all professional business websites. Google will also treat non-SSL sites quite differently.
What we do
We get and install the SSL, use one that we are familiar with and get good support for (Comodo) test and fix the site as needed. Add the appropriate trust badge (and enhance it) to the homepage (this helps with conversions). We also make sure the canonical tagging (HTTP v HTTPS urls) is set up right for SEO.
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What a lot of people do not realize is that when you install an SSL certificate it can often break pages and functions on a website. Forms suddenly stop working, images don’t load, PHP functions become erratic.