Hosting with someone accountable when it breaks
Cheap shared hosting is fine until the site is slow, the SSL expires, the backup is a myth, or nobody knows who has the keys. Managed hosting means I run the infrastructure for sites and apps I know how to operate: deploys, monitoring, backups, hardening, and a human who answers when something is wrong.
I am not a mega-host with a ticket lottery. You get me, on Pacific hours, for stacks I actually support: modern Node and Nuxt apps, containerized services, and the common VPS or cloud setups underneath client work. Working relationship expectations match what small businesses should expect when working with a developer.
Who this is for
Business sites and web apps where downtime costs real money or reputation.
Teams that inherited a server from a vanished freelancer and want out of mystery admin. If the app itself is rotting under unpaid technical debt, pair hosting with the ideas in building business software that lasts.
Clients who want hosting and ongoing support from the same person who understands the codebase. For product choices before you host anything, see making technology decisions for small business.
Companies coming out of a website rescue who need a stable home, not another emergency.
Who this is not for
Hobby projects that can live on free tiers. Take the free tier.
Enterprises that need FedRAMP catalogs and a 500-person NOC. Different market.
Buyers who refuse basic security hygiene (updates, strong auth, backups). I will not babysit a known firetrap without a plan to fix it.
"Host our entire company IT." I host web applications and sites. Laptops, email tenants, and office Wi-Fi are not in scope.
What you get
Environments that match how you ship. Production, staging when it earns its keep, predictable deploys instead of FTP roulette.
Monitoring and alerts. Uptime and error signals that hit me (and you) before customers complain on social.
Backups you can restore. I care about tested restores, not a checkbox that says backup enabled.
Hardening. TLS, least-privilege access, dependency updates on a cadence, secrets not sitting in a shared Drive folder.
Performance basics. Caching, asset discipline, capacity that matches traffic. Peak-season launches get a real look, not a shrug.
Typical hosting for what I run is about $200–$500 per month depending on traffic, data, and complexity. That covers infrastructure and ops care, not unlimited feature development. Bigger multi-service platforms quote higher after an architecture review.
How it pairs with support
Hosting keeps the lights on. A support plan covers questions, small fixes, and dependency work. Together there is one accountable party when something breaks: no finger-pointing between "the developer" and "the host."
If you outgrow solo-managed hosting into a dedicated platform team, I will help you migrate cleanly rather than cling to a setup that no longer fits.
Next step
Schedule a consultation. Tell me what you are hosting, what failed last, and what "good" looks like. I will quote a monthly number or tell you a commodity host is enough.
