Your site on our server. Fully managed. Nothing to do.
Skip the shared hosting headache. Move your WordPress site to our dedicated South African infrastructure — hosted, maintained, secured, and monitored by a single engineer. You focus on your business. We handle everything else.
✔ SA-Based VPS Infrastructure | ✔ Fully Managed by Pieter | ✔ Zero-Downtime Migration | ✔ Isolated Site Environment
What This Is — One Product. Hosting and Management Unified.
Most hosting companies give you a server and leave you to manage it. Most maintenance services manage your site but leave your hosting untouched. This is neither.
Managed WordPress Hosting puts your site on our private server — then we manage everything: updates, backups, security, monitoring, and recovery. You get a single point of contact who controls the full stack.
Hosting — Your site runs on our dedicated local infrastructure. Not shared with hundreds of strangers. Reserved resources, predictable performance.
Management — WordPress core, plugins, themes, database, backups, SSL, and security hardening — managed continuously. You do not touch anything unless you want to.
Monitoring — 1-minute uptime checks. Instant alerts. Incident response per your plan. Downtime is caught and addressed before your customers notice.
Direct Engineer Access — No support queue. No outsourced team. The same engineer who manages your server handles your support requests personally.
Why Not Just Use Shared Hosting?
Shared hosting is built for volume — thousands of sites on one machine, automated support, and nobody who knows your site. Here is the honest difference.
| Factor | Our Managed Hosting | Shared Hosting |
|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure | Private VPS — your site only | Shared — 100s of sites per server |
| WordPress updates | Managed — tested before applying | Auto-update or manual — your risk |
| Backups | Daily, offsite, restore-tested | Often extra cost — rarely tested |
| Uptime monitoring | 1-minute checks, instant alert | Not included |
| Security hardening | Server + application level | Generic shared config |
| Who handles incidents | Pieter — directly | Whoever picks up the ticket |
| Site migration | Zero-downtime, fully handled | DIY |
What’s Managed — Every Layer, Continuously
Server Layer
- NGINX web server configuration
- PHP-FPM tuning
- MariaDB database management
- SSL certificate — auto-renewed
- Server firewall rules
- OS security patches
WordPress Layer
- Core WordPress updates
- Plugin updates — controlled rollout
- Theme updates
- Database optimisation
- wp-config hardening
- File permission audits
Reliability Layer
- 1-minute uptime monitoring
- Daily offsite database backups
- Weekly full-site backups
- Malware scanning
- Brute force protection
- Incident response per SLA
Plans — Hosting and Management. One Monthly Price.
All plans include VPS hosting, SSL auto-renewal, and full WordPress management. No separate hosting invoice. No separate maintenance invoice. Pricing in Rand.
STARTER — R750/month
Best for: Brochure sites and low-traffic WordPress
- Hosted on our private local VPS
- SSL included — auto-renewed
- NGINX/PHP-FPM WordPress stack
- Weekly full-site backups
- Core WordPress updates
- Weekly plugin updates
- Basic security configuration
- Email support — 24-48h response
BUSINESS — R1,350/month ⭐ Most Popular
Best for: Business sites generating leads or revenue
Everything in Starter, plus:
- Daily database backups
- 24/7 uptime monitoring — 1-minute checks
- Downtime alerts and engineer response
- Plugin and theme updates — controlled rollout
- Security hardening — server level
- Malware scanning
- Email + WhatsApp support — 12-24h response
PREMIUM — R2,300/month
Best for: Revenue-critical or high-visibility sites
Everything in Business, plus:
- Advanced security hardening
- Malware remediation assistance
- Priority incident response — 6h SLA
- Monthly uptime and maintenance report
- Dedicated client dashboard access
- Priority support — 8-12h response
Already have your own hosting and just need maintenance?
Migration Process — Zero Downtime. We Handle It All.
You provide access. We do the rest. Your old hosting stays live until the new server is confirmed stable — then DNS is switched cleanly.
- Site Audit — We review your current hosting, plugins, database size, and DNS before anything is touched.
- Server Setup — Your dedicated environment is configured — NGINX, PHP, MariaDB, SSL, firewall, and hardening.
- Site Clone — Full clone of your live site to the new server. Tested thoroughly before DNS is touched.
- DNS Cutover — DNS switched when the new server is verified. Old hosting kept live throughout propagation.
- Active Management — Your site enters full managed mode — monitored, backed up, and maintained continuously.
Frequently Asked Questions
What happens to my current hosting?
Your current hosting stays live throughout migration. We only switch DNS once the new server is fully verified and tested. You are never without a working site.
Is this different from your monitoring plans?
Yes. Monitoring plans watch your existing site wherever it is hosted. Managed Hosting moves your site onto our infrastructure and includes full management — hosting, maintenance, security, and monitoring in one.
Where is the server located?
Our VPS infrastructure is based in the USA. Site assets are served globally through Cloudflare’s CDN, which caches and delivers content from the nearest edge node to your visitor — whether they are in Cape Town, Johannesburg, London, or New York. For South African visitors, Cloudflare has local edge presence in Johannesburg and Cape Town, which means page load performance is comparable to locally-hosted sites. The origin server location matters far less than it once did when Cloudflare is in front of it.
Will my site go down during migration?
No. Migration is planned as a zero-downtime process. Your live site remains active until the new environment is confirmed stable.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Services are month-to-month. Cancel with written notice and we will assist with migration back to your preferred hosting provider.
Is my site shared with other clients?
Your site runs in an isolated environment on private infrastructure. It is not on a shared server alongside hundreds of other sites.
I can get WordPress hosting for R129/month. Why pay more?
You can — and that hosting will keep your site files somewhere on a shared server. It will not update your plugins, harden your security configuration, respond to downtime at 2am, or restore your database after a breach. When something goes wrong, you raise a support ticket with a team that has never seen your site before. With Managed WordPress Hosting, one engineer manages your server, your WordPress installation, your backups, and your security from a single point of control. You are buying the engineer, not just the server.
Ready to Move?
Stop managing your hosting. Start ignoring it.
Migration is zero-downtime and fully handled. Request a free site audit — we will confirm your site is a good fit and outline exactly what migration involves, with no obligation.