Web Hosting
Web hosting where the updates are somebody else's job
Business websites and WordPress, hosted in the UK and actively looked after — patched, backed up, monitored and defended, rather than simply switched on and forgotten.
The honest version
Most “web hosting” is just disk space
The cheap plans are cheap because nobody is doing anything. You get storage, a control panel and a support form. When the plugin update breaks checkout, or the site starts serving pharmaceutical spam to Google, that is your afternoon gone.
We price on the assumption that somebody has to do the work, and then we do it. Updates, backups with tested restores, certificate renewals, malware scanning and uptime monitoring are part of the service rather than an upsell.
The measure of good hosting is how rarely you have to think about it.
Included on every site
- Managed core, plugin and theme updates
- Daily off-site backups with restores we actually test
- TLS certificates issued and renewed automatically
- Web application firewall and malware scanning
- Uptime, certificate and performance monitoring
- Staging environment for testing changes
- SFTP, SSH and Git deployment for your developer
- Free migration from your current host
Good fit
Who this is for
We are a decent fit for organisations where the website matters commercially but nobody in the building wants to be the person who administers it.
Businesses with a brochure site that earns its keep
It generates enquiries, it represents you, and it needs to be up and fast — but it does not need a dedicated team.
Agencies who would rather not be a hosting company
We host your clients’ sites under your relationship. You keep the client; we take the 6pm phone calls.
WordPress estates that have grown organically
Half a dozen sites, several developers over the years, nobody entirely sure what is where. We audit, consolidate and take it on.
Under the bonnet
What the platform actually runs
Nothing exotic. Well-understood components, kept current, configured by people who have had to fix them at 2am.
- Web server
- NGINX with HTTP/2 and Brotli compression, tuned per site rather than left at defaults.
- PHP
- Current supported PHP releases, with OPcache and per-site pools so one busy site cannot starve another.
- Database
- MySQL or MariaDB with slow-query logging, so performance problems get found rather than guessed at.
- Caching
- Server-side page and object caching, plus a CDN in front where it earns its place.
- Backups
- Daily off-site snapshots with defined retention, and restores tested on a schedule.
- Security
- WAF, malware scanning, brute-force protection and locked-down file permissions as standard.
- Monitoring
- Uptime, TLS expiry, disk, and response-time checks around the clock, alerting a human rota.
- We keep hosting and email separate on purpose — your Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace stays where it is.
FAQs
Web hosting questions
Send us the site, we'll tell you what we'd change
Give us a URL and we will come back with an honest assessment — what is slow, what is exposed, and whether moving is actually worth your while.
Or email hello@coffeecupsolutions.com