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Managed hosting from the person who built your site

Uptime monitoring, nightly backups, security patches, DNS management, and same-person support. Month-to-month — no annual contract, no migration fee if you ever want to leave. $30–$75/month depending on how much hand-holding you want.

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Three plans, picked for how hands-off you want to be

Core

$30/mo

  • Uptime monitoring & alerts
  • Nightly offsite backups
  • SSL certificate + renewal
  • DNS management
  • Email support (24–48h)

Care

$50/mo

  • Everything in Core
  • 1 hour/mo of content edits
  • Security patches applied for you
  • Priority response queue
  • Quarterly performance review

Priority

$75/mo

  • Everything in Care
  • 3 hours/mo of content edits
  • Same-day response for critical issues
  • Monthly analytics report
  • Staging environment access

What you don't get that you'd get from GoDaddy

No upsell popups in your dashboard. No "SiteLock Premium" cross-sell. No auto-renewed domains at 3× market rate. No layered support queue where tier-one keeps asking you to clear your cache before escalating to anyone who can actually read PHP logs.

What you get instead: the person who wrote your site's code is the same person who monitors the server, pulls the backups, and answers the 2am email when something goes sideways. Month-to-month billing, no cancellation fee, and a full site export on request if you ever decide to move.

What managed hosting actually prevents

Most site outages and security incidents don't come out of nowhere — they're the result of something that was overdue: a plugin update that was skipped for three months, an SSL certificate that renewed but misconfigured, a PHP version upgrade that broke a forgotten function. Active monitoring and regular maintenance catches these before they cascade.

The most common issues on unmanaged sites: an expired SSL certificate showing the "Not Secure" warning to every visitor, a plugin conflict after an auto-update breaking the contact form, and WordPress core updates that get skipped until a security patch becomes urgent. On a managed plan, none of those require your attention.

Common questions

Regular hosting gives you a server and leaves the rest to you — updates, backups, security patches, SSL, and any troubleshooting are your responsibility. Managed hosting means someone actively monitors and maintains the site: applying updates before they break things, running backups nightly, renewing SSL automatically, and responding when something goes wrong. The difference shows up most clearly at 2am when something breaks.
Yes — hosting is month-to-month with no annual contract and no cancellation fee. When you cancel, the site stays live for 30 days so you have time to migrate. You'll receive a full export of your site files and database before hosting ends.
Core ($30/mo) is right for static sites that rarely change — basic monitoring, backups, SSL, and email support. Care ($50/mo) adds one hour of content edits per month and priority response, which suits most active small-business sites. Priority ($75/mo) adds three hours of edits, same-day response for critical issues, monthly analytics, and staging access — right for businesses where the website is a primary sales or operations tool. See pricing for the full feature breakdown.
In most cases, yes — as long as the site is clean hand-coded PHP or a well-maintained WordPress build without too much legacy plugin debt. A brief code review is required before taking on external sites. Get in touch to discuss the specifics.

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