Hosting where someone is actually looking.

Organisations of roughly twenty to three hundred people whose website is part of how they trade. It is on shared hosting bought years ago, on a reseller account at an agency that has since changed hands, or with a large provider where a problem means a ticket number. Somebody updates the plugins when they remember. Nobody is watching. If it went down on a Saturday, you would find out on Monday, from a customer.

This is one website on one server. If you run several, or something heavier than a WordPress site, ring us and we will price it properly rather than squeeze it onto a machine built for one.

• Your own optimised server in Sydney, on AWS. One vCPU, 1 GB of RAM, 40 GB of SSD storage and 1 TB of bandwidth a month. One website, and nobody else’s.
• Cloudflare in front, customised for your site, with SSL included at no charge.
• WordPress installed and kept current. Plugin updates handled.
• Security tuned to your customer base, not to the whole internet. If you only operate in Australia, administrator access is limited to Australia. A small change that removes most of the world from the problem.
• Real-time threat monitoring.
• Off-site backups on the 3-2-1 method. Three copies, in two locations, one of them off-site and encrypted. Restores are tested on a schedule, because a backup nobody has restored is a hope, not a backup.
• Ey3 Sitrep monitoring. We watch uptime and the signals that move first. Someone is actually looking, and when something needs your attention, you hear it from us.

$600 per year inc GST, or $60 per month inc GST. See the plan. If you want us looking after the site itself as well as the platform it sits on, monthly maintenance starts at $70 inc GST per month.

1. Ring or write with the site address. We look at the site and where it lives now, and tell you whether the move is straightforward.
2. We build your server, move the site onto it, and test it against the original before anything switches over. The switch happens at a time that suits you.
3. From then on it is updates, backups, monitoring, and a person at the end of the phone. You hear from us when something moves. Otherwise you hear from us at renewal.

The old arrangement was simple. Buy some space, install WordPress, leave it alone. It worked when finding a vulnerable site took effort. It does not work now, because scanning the entire internet for a known flaw is a background task. A site nobody is updating and nobody is watching is not unattended. It is available.

So we changed what we sell. Every site we manage is being moved onto this platform, including clients who have been with us for years, because leaving a site to run itself is not something we are prepared to put our name to any more. We have been building for the web since 1996, and this is what that experience says hosting has to look like now.

We do not quote an uptime percentage. A percentage describes an average year, not the afternoon that matters to you. We would rather tell you who is watching, how you will hear, and what a restore looks like, because those are the things you will care about on that afternoon.