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 Vermont maker selling online can have a flawless homepage and a cart that stopped taking orders. If your shop isn’t taking payment, we don’t wait for a quiet week to notice.
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 Vermont, from Burlington to the Northeast Kingdom. 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 Vermont — and the rest of New England. Also serving Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine.
Vermont’s small-business traffic is unusually seasonal. Inns, outfitters, and restaurants across Stowe, the Mad River Valley, and the Northeast Kingdom see sharp peaks in foliage season and again through the winter, with long quiet stretches between them.
That shape is hard on cheap shared hosting, where you share capacity with thousands of other sites and have no say in what happens when yours gets busy. A site that slows down in the first week of October is losing bookings in the weeks that count most. Server-level caching is what absorbs that spike.
For an inn, an outfitter, or a restaurant taking reservations, the practical question isn’t uptime in the abstract — it’s whether the booking form still works at nine on a Friday night in October. That’s why 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 failure screens by name and call them down.
Not every Vermont peak is a foliage peak. The producers who ship rather than seat people, the maple and cheese and cider makers selling through a WooCommerce store, do their heaviest trading somewhere between Thanksgiving and mid-December, when a good share of the year’s margin moves through a checkout page in about three weeks. That is a different load from a booking form and it breaks differently, so the store gets watched as a buying path rather than as a homepage: catalogue, cart, whether a payment method is still offered, and the checkout page, every five minutes and read-only. For a shop that cannot afford to lose an order, backups can run hourly instead of nightly.
Vermont’s other constant is distance. Much of the state is an hour from anywhere, and the businesses we work with don’t have someone down the hall who knows WordPress. Everything we do is remote by design — updates, backups, restores, and a weekly summary in plain English saying what’s healthy and what needs a look.
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.