Hosting for Small Business
What a small business website genuinely needs, what it does not, how much to budget, and the five specification lines that decide whether your site feels fast or slow.
Four guides that cover most of what people ask us. No jargon for its own sake, and no recommendation we would not follow ourselves.
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What a small business website genuinely needs, what it does not, how much to budget, and the five specification lines that decide whether your site feels fast or slow.
Managed versus generic hosting, the server settings WordPress actually cares about, how to size a plan by traffic, and the maintenance a good host takes off your desk.
Three architectures compared on isolation, scaling, failure behaviour, cost and the skills each one quietly assumes you have. Includes a decision table.
A due-diligence checklist for regulated data: encryption, key custody, retention and legal hold, residency, audit logging, contracts and — the one everyone forgets — exit.
We will point you at the plan that fits — and say so if you do not need to spend as much as you thought.