Hosting and care
WordPress hosting and care from £15 a month
Hosting for small business websites, looked after by a real person. We move your site for you, back it up every day, and reply within one working day. Your price is held for 12 months, with no introductory offer that jumps at renewal.
Pick the rung you need
Start where you are and step up when you want more. Every rung gets the same people, the same servers and the same terms.
Hosting
£15/month
Your site hosted properly and backed up every day.
- Managed WordPress hosting for one site on our own server
- SSL certificate, so visitors see the padlock
- Daily backups kept off the server for 30 days
- We move your site from your current host, free
- A reply within one working day
Updates and security are on the next rung.
Start hosting, £15 a monthHosting and care
£39/month
Hosted, updated and kept secure, so you never have to think about it.
- Everything in Hosting
- WordPress, plugin and theme updates, with the site checked after each run
- Website security: firewall, scans, login protection and security headers
- Admin users and risky plugins reviewed every month
- A fix when something breaks
- A short monthly note of what we did
The tiny IT department
from £79/month
Your domain, email, website and the admin around them, looked after by one person you can ask.
- Everything in Hosting and care
- Your domain names kept in your name, renewals paid on time
- Business email set up so it does not land in spam
- Mailboxes added and removed when people join and leave
- Password resets and lock-outs sorted
- Every renewal (domains, email, certificates, paid plugins) on one list we watch
- Small website changes every month
£79 a month for 1 or 2 people, £149 for 3 to 5. Email licences at cost, no mark-up. Three-month minimum.
Ask about the tiny IT department- Your price is held for 12 months. No introductory prices: the first price is the renewal price
- Cancel with one email and 30 days' notice after any minimum term. No exit fee and no phone call
- Your domain stays in your name and the site is yours: if you leave, we hand over the files, the database and the logins
- We reply within one working day, Monday to Friday
- Hosting and Hosting and care are rolling monthly. The tiny IT department is three months, then rolling monthly
How moving to us works
You do not need to know anything technical. We tell you exactly what we need and do the rest.
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Tell us where your site is now
Pick a plan and send us the name of your current host. We tell you what the move involves and when we can do it.
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We copy it and check it
We copy your site to our server and check every page works before anything changes for your visitors.
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We switch it over
At a time that suits you, your domain is pointed at us. We tell you exactly what to click, or do it for you, and check the site again afterwards.
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We look after it
Daily backups from day one. On Hosting and care and up, the updates, security checks and a short note every month.
Who does the work
GDLife Media is a small Essex studio. The person who looks after your site is the senior developer who built the sites behind Gerrards Bullion and WeFit RPE: no juniors, no call centre. More about us.
Backups we check
Every client backup is checked every month to make sure it is there and current, not just assumed to be.
Moves without losses
When we moved an online shop to its new site, all 2,703 customer accounts and 3,937 orders came across, and every old address was checked.
Server problems handled
When a scraper network flooded a client's site, we blocked it and set the server to recover by itself if it ever ran out of memory again.
Questions people ask
Will my site go offline while you move it?
No. We copy your site to our server and check every page works before anything changes. Only then do we switch it over, at a time that suits you, and check it again afterwards.
Will my email be affected?
Not unless you ask. If your email is with your current host, we tell you before we switch anything. On the tiny IT department we move and set up your email for you.
What is the difference between £15 and £39?
Hosting at £15 keeps your site online and backed up every day. Hosting and care at £39 adds the updates, the security work and a fix when something breaks, so you never have to log in to WordPress yourself.
Do I own my website and domain?
Yes. Your domain stays registered in your name, and if you leave we hand over the site files, the database and the logins.
How do I leave?
Send one email with 30 days' notice, after the three-month minimum on the tiny IT department. There is no exit fee and no phone call.
Do you host sites that are not on WordPress?
Our hosting is for WordPress sites. If yours is built on something else, ask and we will tell you honestly whether we can help.
Every site we look after sits on one ladder
Start on the rung you need and step up when you want more. The same people and the same terms on every rung: your price held for 12 months, one email to cancel after any minimum term, your domain and site stay yours, and a reply within one working day.
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Hosting
£15/month
Your site hosted properly, backed up every day and moved for free.
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Hosting and care
£39/month
Plus updates, website security and a fix when something breaks.
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The tiny IT department
from £79/month
Plus your domain, email, renewals and admin, for firms of one to five people.
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SEO plans
from £350/month
Plus the work that brings more customers from Google, with a monthly report.
Site hosted somewhere else? Website security from £49 a month, starting with a £195 hardening pack.
Tell us about your site
Send us your web address and the plan you are thinking about. We reply within one working day with what the move involves and when we can do it.