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Hosting and server management
Hosting and server management covers getting your website onto appropriate hosting and keeping that environment configured correctly: DNS, certificates, server settings, caching and CDN. It suits businesses whose hosting has become a source of outages, slowness or confusion about who is responsible.
When this helps
Problems this solves
- Hosting nobody in the business fully understands or controls.
- DNS and certificates managed by a supplier you have lost contact with.
- A server that falls over at the worst moment with no monitoring in place.
- Slow responses caused by the environment rather than the site.
Scope
What's included
Every quote lists the deliverables in writing, so there is no ambiguity about what you receive.
Deliverables
- Hosting recommendation and setup, or a planned move with minimal downtime.
- DNS configuration and documentation, including mail-related records handled carefully.
- SSL certificate setup and renewal arrangements.
- Server configuration, including NGINX, PHP settings and caching layers where applicable.
- Cloudflare setup: proxying, caching rules, and security settings appropriate to your site.
- Agreed monitoring, alert routing and a documented access and responsibility list.
Not included as standard
- Hosting, CDN and certificate costs are yours and billed by those providers.
- I do not advertise uptime guarantees; those come from your hosting provider.
- Email hosting and deliverability beyond DNS records is scoped separately.
Anything here can be added to the scope and priced separately.
Defined starting point
Hosting setup or move
Fixed price after scoping
Typically includes
- Hosting recommendation for your platform and traffic
- Environment setup and configuration
- DNS, SSL and Cloudflare configuration
- Planned cutover with verification
- Access and responsibility documentation
- Agreed monitoring where included
Process
How the work runs
Step 1
Assess
Review current hosting, DNS, certificates and pain points.
Step 2
Recommend
Propose an environment with the third-party costs stated.
Step 3
Move
Build, test, then cut over at an agreed time.
Step 4
Document
Record access, configuration and monitoring arrangements.
What I need from you
- Registrar, DNS and existing hosting access.
- A decision on budget and the level of resilience you need.
- A named technical contact for cutover timing.
What changes the price
- Whether this is a new setup or a live migration.
- Traffic levels and platform resource requirements.
- Number of sites, domains and environments.
- Whether monitoring and ongoing maintenance are included.
Experience
Relevant background
Relevant career experience includes server management, DNS, SSL, NGINX and Cloudflare, and a move of server infrastructure to DigitalOcean.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
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Share a little about your website, your goals and what is getting in the way. I'll use that to work out the right scope and next step.