Hosting & Maintenance
Managed hosting and ongoing site care across Cloudflare, AWS, Firebase, Webflow, and WordPress — DNS, SSL, deployments, updates, and monitoring, so your site stays fast, secure, and online.
Hosting Is a Decision, Not a Checkbox
Every website lives somewhere, and where it lives determines what it costs, how fast it loads, and what happens when something breaks. Most small businesses inherit their hosting — it came with the site, or with the platform, or with whoever built it last — and never look at it again until something goes wrong.
I host and maintain sites across the major platforms, and I match the platform to the site rather than the other way around. A marketing site, a Webflow build, a WordPress install, and a web application all have different right answers.
What I Host, and Where
Static and Next.js sites — deployed to Cloudflare Pages or AWS (S3 + CloudFront), with global CDN delivery and automatic SSL. This site runs on Cloudflare Pages; I've run production sites on both.
Webflow sites — Webflow handles the servers, but someone still owns the domain, the DNS, the redirects, and the launch checklist. I manage that layer for Webflow clients, including migrations onto the platform.
WordPress sites — managed hosting with updates applied on a schedule, not when things break. Core, theme, and plugin updates tested before they touch production, with backups that actually restore.
Web applications — Firebase and AWS for apps that need databases, authentication, and server-side logic. Covered in more depth under Cloud Infrastructure.
The layer under all of it — domains, DNS, SSL certificates, email routing records (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), and redirects. This is the part nobody thinks about until email stops delivering or a certificate expires and the site shows a security warning to every visitor. Keeping that layer healthy is most of what "hosting" actually means.
What Maintenance Actually Covers
A site that was perfect at launch degrades on its own: certificates expire, plugins fall behind, forms silently stop delivering, analytics tags double up, links rot. Ongoing maintenance is a short list of unglamorous checks done consistently:
- Uptime and SSL monitoring — know a certificate is expiring before visitors see a warning page
- Updates and patches — platform, CMS, and dependency updates applied and verified
- Backups — automated, off-platform, and periodically test-restored
- Form and integration checks — contact forms, analytics, and third-party scripts verified against the live site, not assumed working
- Performance reviews — page speed checked after content changes, image weight kept under control
- DNS and domain hygiene — renewals tracked, records documented, no surprises at transfer time
I verify against the live published site, not against a dashboard that says everything is fine. Dashboards report what a tool believes; the page a visitor receives is the truth.
Engagement Models
Care plans — a monthly retainer covering monitoring, updates, backups, and a set amount of content or fix work. This is the right fit for most business sites: predictable cost, no emergencies.
Hosting migration — moving a site from where it is to where it should be: platform selection, DNS cutover with zero downtime, redirect mapping so search rankings survive, and post-move verification.
Rescue and repair — the site is down, the certificate expired, email stopped arriving, or the last developer is unreachable. I diagnose from the outside in, fix the immediate problem, then document what exists so it can't surprise you twice.
Let's talk about keeping your site running.
No sales pitch. Just a conversation about what you're building and whether I'm the right fit.
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