Hosting, Security & Maintenance

As a Manchester web agency, we know that launching your WordPress site is just the beginning. We provide premium, fully managed hosting and maintenance packages engineered for speed, security, and complete peace of mind.

Hosting, Security & Maintenance

Our WordPress hosting infrastructure includes:

Industry-Leading Control with cPanel/WHM

Manage your hosting effortlessly. Every account comes equipped with its own cPanel, the industry standard for intuitive hosting control and management.

Free 256-bit SSL Certificates & HTTP/3

Build customer trust and boost your load speeds. Every site we host includes a free, fully trusted 256-bit SSL Certificate as standard, automatically enabling blazing-fast HTTP/3 performance.

Hourly Off-Site Backups (Pro Package)

Never lose a single change, order, or post. With our Pro plan, we take automated off-site backups every single hour, so your data can always be restored at a moment's notice.

Advanced Account Protection

Rest easy knowing your files are safe. Every account on our servers is strictly isolated, ensuring your website and data are completely protected, even within a shared hosting environment.

Flexible PHP Selection

Whether you are developing with the latest technologies or supporting legacy setups, we offer total flexibility. Easily switch between PHP versions 5 through 8 on any cPanel account.

Why WordPress maintenance & updates matter

A website isn't a "set it and forget it" project. WordPress is a dynamic platform, and the core software, themes, and plugins that power your site are constantly evolving. Here is why staying up-to-date is critical for your business:

The vast majority of WordPress hacks happen because of outdated plugins or core software. When developers find security vulnerabilities, they release patches via updates. If you don’t update, hackers can exploit those known weak spots to inject malware, steal customer data, or take your site offline.

Updates don’t just fix security holes; they often include code optimizations. Keeping everything updated ensures your site runs as fast as possible, which reduces bounce rates and improves your Google search rankings.

WordPress is an ecosystem. If your WordPress core updates but your plugins stay stuck in the past, things will break. Regular maintenance ensures all moving parts, your theme, your plugins, and your PHP version, work together harmoniously without throwing errors on your live site.

Developers are constantly improving their software. Updating ensures you have access to the latest tools, design features, and integrations to keep your website on the cutting edge.

Safe & secure updates

Why let us handle it?

Keeping your website running smoothly

Pushing the “update” button can sometimes cause plugin conflicts that crash your site. We take the risk out of the process by taking full backups first, testing updates safely, and resolving any conflicts behind the scenes.

From routine plugin updates to unexpected compatibility issues, we make sure everything continues working exactly as it should, without disrupting your live site.

Find our packages below

Launch Care

  • Managed hosting (5GB)
  • SSL & daily backups
  • Core WordPress & plugin updates
  • Security monitoring
  • Uptime monitoring
  • Monthly health check

Build Care

  • Everything in Launch Care
  • Performance optimisation checks
  • Monthly reporting
  • Faster support response

Growth Care

  • Everything in Build Care
  • Regular performance tuning
  • Bug fixes & performance improvements
  • Small development tweaks included (1–2 tasks/month)

Scale Care

  • Everything in Growth Care
  • Dedicated account oversight
  • Priority support (fast turnaround)
  • Proactive optimisation
  • Staging & safe deployment
  • Quarterly strategy input

Website hosting FAQs

It almost never reaches that point, because we test on staging first. If something does go wrong on the live site, we roll back to the most recent backup immediately and then diagnose the conflict properly before trying again.

Absolutely. It’s your site and you keep full access. We look after the technical layer underneath so you can get on with content, products and campaigns.

Maintenance covers updates, security, backups, monitoring and small fixes. New features, design changes, and larger pieces of development work are quoted separately or in a different plan, we’ll always tell you before any work falls outside the plan, never after.

No. We take on existing WordPress sites regularly. We’ll run a health check first so we both know what we’re inheriting, and flag anything that needs fixing before we take it on.

On a maintenance plan, we clean it up, restore it and close the vulnerability at no additional cost.

Yes, at any point. If your traffic grows or your needs change, we’ll move you onto the right plan.

We operate across three connected divisions: acquisition, conversion, and retention.

When any one of these is misaligned, growth stalls. Get them right, and you build stronger connections, generate demand, and convert more customers.

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