A faster, more secure, fully managed alternative to GoDaddy and other cheap WordPress hosting. We are based in Rhode Island, an hour down 95 — near enough to know the market you are selling into, and honest about not being on Boylston Street. We handle the updates, backups, security and speed so you can run your business.
Cheap hosting is cheap for a reason — you do the work, on servers packed with thousands of other sites. Here’s the difference, line by line.
| GoDaddy & cheap hosts | Site Schema | |
|---|---|---|
| Updates, backups & security | Mostly your job | We handle it for you |
| Server performance | Oversold shared servers | Right-sized, monitored 24/7 |
| Support | Tickets + constant upsells | Real human help, based in New England |
| Backups | Often a paid add-on | Nightly · 30-day retention |
| Uptime monitoring | Off until you activate it · 5-min default | On from day one · every minute |
| Catches a break behind a “200 OK” | Only if you set a keyword yourself | Yes — we read the page itself |
| Migration | Do it yourself | Free, done for you |
| Plain-language reports | No | Yes |
Want the long version? What “managed” actually covers.
Most hosts will tell you they monitor your site. What they usually mean is that something asks your server whether it’s awake. That misses the way WordPress actually breaks: the page still answers, it just isn’t your website any more.
A Back Bay firm’s contact form can stop sending and a Seaport restaurant’s booking page can serve a database error to every visitor, both while the server keeps answering politely. In a market this competitive nobody emails to tell you — they just click the next result.
Not every five. From more than one region, with confirmation re-checks so a blip never becomes a false alarm — confirmed downtime reaches you by email in about two minutes.
A WordPress site with a database error answers a monitor with a normal “200 OK”. We recognise those failure screens by name, so a site that came back broken counts as down — and the alert says what we found.
How the checks workCatalogue, products from the database, the cart and whether a payment method is still being offered, and the checkout page — every five minutes, read-only, with no test orders.
What we check on a storeFree auto-renewing SSL, malware protection, and a hardened WordPress setup — managed for you.
Encrypted nightly backups with one-click restore and 30-day history. Hourly available for stores.
Server-level caching and tuned PHP keep your site quick — without you installing a single plugin.
A readable weekly summary of what’s healthy and what needs a look. No jargon, no dashboards to learn.
Talk to the people who actually run the platform — a New England company, not an overseas queue.
We move your site off GoDaddy (or any host) for free, with no downtime — usually within a day.
We work with small businesses and professional firms throughout the metro — from the Financial District to the streetcar suburbs. Everything is handled remotely, which is how it would work with a Boston host too; the difference is that you can get one of us on the phone.
Not on the list? We serve all of Greater Boston — and the rest of New England. Part of our Massachusetts coverage. Also serving Providence.
Boston has the deepest bench of professional services in the region — law, healthcare, finance, consulting, architecture — and in most categories a dozen firms of similar size are competing for the same searches. That changes what a website failure costs. Elsewhere a slow page is an annoyance; here it is the reason someone chose the firm listed below you.
It also means the bar for “fine” is higher. Server-level caching and tuned PHP are what actually move page speed, and both are our job rather than yours — no plugin you install will do as much, and on a site that has spent years on cheap shared hosting the difference is usually the largest single improvement available.
The second half is not being quietly broken. An expired certificate throwing a browser warning, a contact form that stopped sending after a plugin update, a checkout that fails only on mobile — none of those announce themselves, and all of them cost you enquiries you never learn about. Checks run every minute from more than one region and read the page a visitor would actually see, because a WordPress site with a database error still answers a monitor with a cheerful “200 OK”.
And we are an hour away rather than an ocean away. That matters less for the work, which is remote either way, than it does for the conversation — when something needs a decision you talk to the people who run the platform, in your own time zone, about a market they know.
It is free, we do it for you, and your site stays up the whole time. Here is the whole process, so “no downtime” is something you can check rather than something you have to take our word for.
We take a full copy of the site — files, database, uploads, plugins, themes — and rebuild it on our servers. Nothing changes on your live site while this happens, and it keeps serving from your old host exactly as it did before.
The copy runs on a private address first. We walk the pages that matter — the homepage, contact form, and on a store the catalogue, cart and checkout — and fix anything the move disturbed. Most sites need nothing; older ones sometimes need a plugin updated to work on a current PHP version.
You get the private link and check it yourself. This is the point to say “the fonts look wrong” or “that form goes to the wrong inbox”, and nothing is switched over until you are happy.
One DNS change points your domain at the new copy. Both copies are live and identical through the changeover, so visitors reach a working site whichever one they land on — that is what “no downtime” actually means. SSL is issued and renewing before the switch, so no one meets a certificate warning.
Monitoring, nightly backups and updates start immediately. We keep an eye on the first days closely, because that is when anything the move missed shows up — and if something does, the backup from before the switch is one click away.
Most moves finish inside a day. A large store, or a site with something unusual bolted to it, can take longer — we will tell you which one you are before we start rather than after.
One site, fully looked after. Every plan includes free migration from GoDaddy, nightly backups, free SSL, security, and support.
Bigger site or a few of them? See all plans.