WordPress Hosting

• All of our hosting plans include an SSL Certificate, SSL Certificate installation, and SSL Certificate management/support.  This means "insecure content" issues are our problem to resolve, not yours.  By comparison, at many of the popular providers, you'll pay $150 or more per year for this service - all included with The Mighty Mo!.
• We utilize only supported & secure versions of PHP and MySQL.  Many of the big one-size-fits-all hosts are comfortable letting you use an old, insecure software on the server that's just waiting to get hacked. Not us!
• You'll get priority phone and email support for hosting-related security questions and issues.  For full transparency, it gets a little tricky to explain at this point, because WordPress security is a different beast from hosting security (but we've got you covered on the WP end as well with optional add-ons for WordPress and SEO security - just let us know if you have questions).
• We make nightly, restorable backups of your website to the cloud, which means that if you accidentally break something on your website (happens to the best of us - no judgement!), we can easily restore your website to how it looked yesterday or 3 weeks ago.
• We can optionally manage your DNS for no extra charge.  By fully-managing your DNS, we are able to make your site much more secure by blocking traffic from malware-pushing governments (Iran, Russia, etc) and creating rulesets to challenge suspicious website behavior.  By comparison, none of the big hosting providers offer this service.

• When hosting goes wrong, it goes WAY wrong - just ask the thousands of people whose websites disappear every year for a variety of reasons.  That'll never happen with us.  See our security practices above, for example.
• When you host with most of the 1-size-fits-all hosting companies, your website will be slow.  For example, your "Time To First Byte" (TTFB) speeds will be in the 5-15 second range (by comparison, we aim for TTFB speeds of a fraction of a second on our hosting stack).  We are obsessed with fast websites, and all the tech in our stack as well as our pricing is built to give your website a speed boost.
• Most hosting companies aren't very helpful when it comes to troubleshooting website issues.  With other companies, you'll usually be stuck either in a chat window or on the phone with a junior level staffer who isn't actually very good at supporting WordPress or websites, in general.  Many times, they'll upsell you useless products as part of their troubleshooting. With us, you'll always speak with a WordPress expert who has your best interests in mind, so you'll get quick support from someone who is empowered to fix your website. NOTE: If the support needed falls outside of our hosting-level support agreement, we'll have a conversation about costs before starting work.
• Our hosting service is built to reduce your headaches (most other hosting services seem to be built to reduce their headaches), and we do a lot behind the scenes to keep things secure and stable to save us both headaches.
• We are on a first-name basis with our customers and speak with most of them regularly on the phone and email.
• We also only host WordPress website, so you get none of the confusing "server permissions" and other issues with the 1-size-fits-all hosting companies.
• We have 15+ years building and supporting WordPress websites - We were there at the beginning, and have contributed to the WordPress.org plugin repository, co-founded the Minneapolis St. Paul WordPress user group, and are deeply-engaged in building community around WordPress.

Our up-to-date prices are listed here.  From time-to-time, we're able to offer discounts - get in touch to converse about your options.

The process is simple for you - send us login info, and we'll do the rest!

In most cases, we are able to migrate websites in a business day or two.  Expect a "content freeze" while we do our work.

A lot of expertise is required to do WordPress hosting right.  We are focused on providing fast, secure, & stable websites.  We recommend email hosting services like Hey, Google, Microsoft, & Zoho.  Also, we can provide email management/IT services for Google Business/Gmail.

All of our conversations start as a free email or phone conversation.  Oftentimes we are able to resolve WordPress issues with a simple conversation.  If the issue is related to the hosting technology, we'll take care of it free of charge.  If the issue is related to WordPress themes, plugins, or training, we'll help you develop options for next steps - in these cases we are often able to help resolve more complex WordPress issues for a reasonable fee, and we never oversell.

In the off-chance that your website goes down, fill out our quick 911 Website Emergency form - available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

Yup!  You are welcome to schedule a call at your convenience any time.  For most day-to-day questions, email will get faster response times.

Our hosting stack is constantly-evolving, and always distributed globally in the cloud.  We don't commit to a certain brand, but we use cloud servers managed by Google, Amazon, Digital Ocean, and Microsoft - all providing you with extra security and stability.

You have lots of choices with WordPress hosting, ranging in price from a few bucks per month up to thousands of dollars per month.  Price does not always reflect quality.  In fact, from year-to-year, these hosting companies' product quality fluctuates (usually in downward trajectory, unfortunately), so the hosting recomendation you received a few months ago might not be relevant anymore.  To make matters even more confusing, feature sets usually are not correlated to quality.  Over the years, we've hosted our entire roster of customers at different times on WP Engine, Siteground, Hostgator, and Pressable.  We've also utilized 1-off services from Digital Ocean, Amazon, and Google Cloud, where the specific need called for it. So we've experienced lots of hosting companies, and we've aimed to do better with our service.  With us, you pay a flat monthly fee for senior-experience support, maintenance, hosting, and guidance - That's a mix none of the popular managed WordPress companies provide.

No - Our contract explicitly states that you own all your stuff (images, text, files, etc).  We also actively-encourage and support you owning your domain and and will advise you on how to manage your domain through a 3rd party of your choosing.