A faster, more secure, fully managed alternative to GoDaddy and other cheap WordPress hosting — run by a New England team, not an overseas queue. We work with small businesses across the region and handle the updates, backups, security, and speed so you can run yours.
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 coastal Maine shop or lodging business can lose its whole season in the weeks that matter most. A checkout that fails quietly is the costliest kind of outage, and it’s the one we watch for.
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’re a New England company based in Rhode Island, and we work with businesses throughout the region — including across Maine, from Portland and the Midcoast to Bangor and Down East. Everything is done remotely and quickly; a phone call or video meeting is all it takes to get started.
Not on the list? We serve all of Maine — and the rest of New England. Also serving Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont.
Maine’s coastal economy concentrates a year of demand into a few months. Lodging, restaurants, galleries, and charter operators from Portland to Bar Harbor take the bulk of their bookings between June and September.
A slow site in August isn’t a technical problem, it’s a lost season. Server-level caching carries the busy weekends, nightly backups mean a bad plugin update in July is a five-minute fix, and uptime is watched around the clock so you never hear from a customer that the booking form is down.
For lodging, a charter operator, or a restaurant taking reservations, the question that matters in July isn’t uptime in the abstract — it’s whether the booking form still works on a Saturday evening. The checks read the page a visitor would actually see rather than trusting the server’s reply: a WordPress site with a database error still answers a monitor with a cheerful “200 OK”. We recognise those screens by name and call them down.
The compressed season also changes what a backup is for. Losing a morning of bookings in February is an annoyance; losing one in August is a chunk of the year. Backups run nightly, encrypted and off the server, with one-click restore and thirty days of history — and hourly is available for the businesses that genuinely cannot lose an order.
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.