Hosting, Security & Backups
Hosting That Keeps Your Site Fast, Safe, And Online
We run the servers, patch the software, watch for trouble, and back everything up every day. You own the site and every account, and you stop thinking about whether it's up.
Hosting Built For The Sites We Manage
Our setup holds its own against WP Engine, Flywheel, and the rest of the managed WordPress crowd. The difference is who shows up when something breaks: the same team that designed, built, and ranks your site.
Cloud Servers We Run Ourselves
Your site lives on GridPane managed cloud servers we operate, alongside hundreds of client sites we tend every day. Not a reseller account with our logo on it.
Cloudflare In Front Of Everything
We route sites through Cloudflare, which caches your content on its network for crazy speed increases and adds a serious layer of security in front of your server.
We Warranty Sites On Our Server
From fixing a hacked site to debugging a slow one to configuring backups and redundancies, we have the technical skills to actually fix things. Most hosting support falls to pieces at the first sight of a complex problem.
Automatic Updates, Checked By Hand
WordPress core, plugins, themes, and server patches all get applied for you. Then we check that nothing broke once they're in.
Daily Backups, Stored Off The Server
Your whole site gets backed up every day. A bad update, a hack, or an honest mistake is a quick restore, not a disaster.
The Problems With Shared Hosting
The standard package you buy from GoDaddy or HostGator is shared hosting. It has come a long way, but it still has limits any serious business should know about. If you are spending real money on SEO, web design, and ads, this one change in how you host can make a dramatic difference in what your website earns you.
Slow At The Worst Times
During the busy hours of the day your server can run short on resources. You may never realize that from noon to 3pm your site runs slow as a snail.
Ancient Server Software
Shared hosts rarely update a server once customers are on it, because updates break sites and support costs them money. The result is servers running six year old software full of security holes.
The Slow Fade
They start you on a light server and let the load tick up over time. Fast the first month, slower every month after, and you never find out why.
Backups You Never Set Up
Shared hosting does not back up your files by default. You have to configure that yourself, and most owners learn this the day they need a backup that does not exist.
A Shared IP With Strangers
You can wind up on the same server and IP address as spam or adult domains, and their reputation problems become your email deliverability problems.
Firewalls That Block Google
Shared firewalls occasionally block or throttle Google and other good bots by accident. You pay for SEO while your host quietly works against it.
Where Shared Hosting Wins
To be fair: 24 hour support and low prices are real advantages. But quality is all over the map, consistent one month and not the next.
Astro Hosting Is Free. Here Is What You Pay Us For.
The Astro sites we build are static, and static hosting on Cloudflare costs nothing. We tell you that up front because the value is not the server bill. It is everything around it.
Free Hosting On Cloudflare
Your Astro site serves from Cloudflare's global edge, the same network we put in front of our WordPress fleet. The hosting bill itself is zero, and we are not marking one up.
Your Code Backed Up On GitHub
Every site lives in its own GitHub repository with every change recorded. That is an added layer of security on top of the hosting: if anything ever went sideways, the whole site rebuilds from the repo.
We Keep The Build Current
Astro and its tooling move fast. We update the build, test it, and redeploy, so your site stays on supported, secure versions and your forms keep working cleanly.
Forms That Actually Deliver
A static site still needs paid services behind its forms. We run yours through Mailgun with a dedicated IP we pay for, so a lead email lands in your inbox instead of a spam folder.
A Team You Can Reach
The monthly covers the care. We make sure your site is working and safe, you are supported technically, and you can come to us any time for changes or help with changes.
How We Work With You
No contracts, no runaround, no mystery invoices. You own what you paid for and you work with the people doing the work.
You Own Everything
The site, the domain, the hosting login, the content. All yours, all in your name. You're never the one locked in.
Month To Month
You pay month to month, no long contract. Stay because the work's good, not because leaving is a hassle.
Real People, Not A Ticket Queue
Something's wrong, you reach a person who knows your site. Not a ticket queue three time zones away reading from a script.
We Handle The Boring Parts
Updates, renewals, certificates, backups, monitoring. All of it runs in the background so you can get on with running your business.
Clear Reporting
Curious what's going on back there? Ask anytime and we'll show you uptime, updates applied, and backups taken, in plain language.
Common Questions
Good To Know
Do I Own My Website And Hosting Account?
Yes. The site, the domain, and the hosting account are all in your name, and you keep the logins. We manage everything for you, but nothing is held hostage, and you can take it elsewhere whenever you want.
What Happens If My Site Goes Down?
Our uptime monitoring watches your site around the clock and alerts us the moment it stops responding. In most cases we're already working on it before you'd even notice, and you can call us directly if you ever spot a problem first.
How Often Are Backups Taken, And Can You Restore One?
We back up your entire site every day and keep copies off-site. If a bad update, a hack, or an honest mistake breaks something, we restore a clean version quickly instead of rebuilding from nothing.
Can You Host A Site You Didn't Build?
Usually, yes. We can move most existing WordPress, WooCommerce, or other sites onto our managed hosting, harden the security, and take over updates and backups. Send us your current setup and we'll tell you straight whether it's a good fit.
If Astro Hosting Is Free, What Am I Paying For?
The care around it. Cloudflare serves the site for free, and we keep the build updated, back your code up to GitHub, run your forms through paid services like Mailgun with a dedicated IP for email deliverability, and stay reachable for changes or help with changes. The server bill is zero. The site still needs someone who tends it.
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Tell us what you're after and we'll give it to you straight: what it takes, what it costs, no hard sell. Everything is month to month, so you're never locked in.