Your hosting is the foundation everything else sits on. Get it right and your site is quick, secure and reliable. Get it wrong and nothing else you do will quite make up for it.
Impartial hosting advice
I’m not tied to any hosting company, so I’ll recommend what genuinely suits your site, your traffic and your budget. That might be simple shared hosting for a small brochure site, a managed WordPress host, a static site on Netlify, or a properly configured cloud server for a busy shop.
What I can help with
- Choosing a host that fits your site today and has room to grow.
- Server set-up on AWS (EC2 and Lightsail), Netlify, cPanel, Plesk and traditional Linux servers.
- Web server configuration with Apache and Nginx, including virtual hosts, reverse proxies, HTTPS and caching.
- Moving hosts with careful planning, testing and DNS switch-overs, so there’s little or no downtime.
- Automated deployments from Git and GitHub, so updates go live safely and repeatably.
- CDNs such as Cloudflare to speed things up and add a layer of protection.
Experience you can lean on
Over twenty years I’ve set up, tuned and moved hosting for everything from small WordPress sites to busy Magento stores and bespoke PHP applications. I’ve written step-by-step guides on running WordPress on AWS Lightsail and moving WordPress to a new server, and I follow a careful, well-rehearsed deployment process so launches go smoothly.
