After launch
Website Care and Hosting
Flexible hosting for every budget, from free one-page sites to full websites, plus updates, content changes and help when you need it, with your site and email on one invoice.
- Simple pagesRésumé, bio or landing pageFreeon GitHub Pages, set up by us
- WebsitesBusiness and organization sitesYearly plansized to your site
- EmailOn your own domainAdd-onon the same invoice
- Giving backAmherst Island Community Medical Clinic$600 → $0a year, with hosting we donate
Website care
What's Included
01
Hosting Matched to Your Site
Professional hosting for full websites, and free hosting on GitHub Pages for simple one-page sites. We handle the domain, DNS and security certificates.
02
Updates and Security
We keep your site's software current and watch for problems after launch, so issues get fixed before your visitors notice them.
03
Content Changes on Request
Your team can edit the site themselves, but when you would rather send an email than log in, we make the change for you.
04
Site and Email on One Invoice
Hosting and your organization's email from one place, billed together, with one person to call when something needs fixing.
05
Accounts in Your Name
Your domain, hosting and services are registered to your organization, not to us or a volunteer who might move on.
06
Training and a Care Guide
Hands-on training, video walkthroughs and a plain-language guide, so anyone on your team can keep the site current.
A straight answer
Why We Don't Host WordPress
WordPress runs a huge share of the web, and we repair it when it breaks. We don't host it, because it makes looking after a site harder than it needs to be.
- 01
Dashboard noise
The admin screen is crowded with menus, notices and upsells from every plugin, so a simple edit turns into a hunt and new volunteers feel lost.
- 02
Plugins to babysit
Every plugin needs regular updates, and any update can break something. Keeping that stack patched is where much of a WordPress site's running cost goes.
- 03
Slow to change
Small changes often need someone who knows WordPress inside out, which means waiting for a developer and paying for their time.
What you get instead
A site designed for you from scratch. WordPress sites usually start from a template, so they look like millions of others. Ours never do.
A clean editor built around your content, with nothing extra on screen, no plugin stack to patch, and pages built ahead of time wherever possible so the site stays fast. Your team can make everyday changes without calling anyone.
Already on WordPress? We can repair it, or rebuild it on a modern stack the way we did for Island Radio and the Amherst Island Community Medical Clinic.
Hosting, software updates and security monitoring, content changes when you ask for them, and someone to call when something goes wrong. If you like, we also run your organization's email, billed together with the site.
It depends on the site, and our plans are flexible. Full websites go on our professional hosting with a yearly plan sized to the site, and email can be added to the same invoice. We tell you the cost before you commit, and for some community organizations we reduce or donate hosting.
Yes, for free. A résumé, a bio or a single landing page can be hosted on GitHub Pages at no cost, and we set it up for you so you never have to touch it.
No. We repair WordPress sites when they break, and we help organizations move off WordPress onto a modern stack, but we don't host it. Crowded dashboards and constant plugin updates make it slower and costlier to look after than the sites we build.
No. You own everything we build. We can hand over the code and design files for your own team to deploy, or host it for you. Either way, your domain and accounts stay in your name.
Every project includes 30 days of support for bug fixes and questions, and a 60-day satisfaction guarantee. After that, care is optional: some clients keep us on, others run the site themselves using the training and guides we leave behind.
Yes. We set up email on your own domain, with role addresses like treasurer@ that pass to the next person, and bill it together with your hosting. See our Business Email service for how it works.
You can, at any time. Your domain, content and code are yours, and the accounts are registered to your organization. We will help with the handover.
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