Hosting and business email, set up properly and kept working
Your website and your company email are the two things every customer sees. Both are worth having somebody responsible for.
Business Web Hosting
Hosting is one of those things that is invisible when it works and extremely visible when it does not. A site that is slow, that goes down during business hours, or that shows a browser security warning is costing you enquiries you will never hear about.
What we provide
Business web hosting
Hosting sized for a business website rather than a hobby project.
Managed hosting
We handle the server side — configuration, updates and monitoring — so your team does not have to learn it.
SSL certificates
HTTPS configured and renewed before expiry, so visitors do not meet a “Not secure” warning.
Website deployment
Getting the site live, including migration from an existing host — scheduled so the switch does not land in the middle of a working day.
Backup
Scheduled backups of the site and its database, kept where they can actually be restored from.
Performance monitoring
Watching load times and availability, so problems are found before customers report them.
Domain & DNS assistance
Domain registration, renewals, DNS records and the changes that go with adding email, subdomains or a new host.
Note on DNS
Most website outages we are called about are DNS mistakes, and the expensive version is when a website change accidentally breaks the company’s email. We treat DNS changes carefully and check mail records before touching anything.
Professional Email Hosting for Your Business
A business quoting for a serious order from a free personal email address is fighting an unnecessary battle. Email on your own domain costs very little, takes an afternoon to set up, and changes how every message you send is read.
It also means the company owns its email. When an employee leaves, the mailbox stays with the business — which is not true of the personal address they were using.
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What we provide
Custom domain emailAddresses on your own domain for everyone who needs one.
Business mailboxesSet up per user, with the storage and features of the plan you choose.
Email migrationExisting mail, contacts and folders moved across from your current provider — including from free accounts.
Mail setupCorrect MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC records, so your mail arrives in inboxes instead of spam folders.
Spam protectionFiltering to keep the volume manageable.
BackupMailbox backup where the plan supports it.
Mobile & desktop configurationSet up on phones, Outlook and whatever else your team uses — properly, so mail syncs across all of them rather than downloading to one device.
DNS configurationAll the record changes handled, verified and documented.
Why mail lands in spam
If your business email is going to spam, it is nearly always because the domain’s authentication records are missing or wrong. SPF, DKIM and DMARC tell receiving servers that your mail is genuinely yours. Without them, a legitimate business email looks the same as a forged one. Setting them up correctly is part of every email project we do.
Choosing what you need
Hosting is sold on specifications most businesses cannot evaluate. What actually matters is simpler:
- How many mailboxes, and how much mail history has to move across
- Whether the website is a brochure site or something with a database behind it
- Whether anyone needs shared calendars and contacts
- How much downtime would genuinely hurt, and at what times of day
- Who is going to be responsible when something breaks
We work through those questions and recommend accordingly.
We do not sell fixed packages. Hosting is built to what the site and the mail actually need — cPanel, Windows or Linux, whichever suits — which is why there is no plan table on this page. Tell us what you are running and we will size it.
Moving from your current provider
Migration is where hosting projects go wrong, and it is entirely avoidable with planning.
01Audit
Everything currently in place: the site, the mailboxes, the DNS records, the domain registrar login.
02Prepare
The new environment set up and tested with the old one still live.
03Copy mail first
Existing mail migrated before any DNS change, so nothing is missing when the switch happens.
04Switch
DNS updated at a low-traffic time, with mail and website records handled together.
05Verify
Sending and receiving tested from outside, site checked on multiple devices, SSL confirmed.
06Keep the old one briefly
The previous setup stays available until the new one has run cleanly for a while.
Frequently asked questions
Will we lose email during the switch?
Not if it is planned properly. Mail is migrated before DNS changes, and both systems accept mail during the transition.
Can we keep our current domain?
Yes. The domain is yours regardless of who hosts the site or the mail.
We use free email with our own domain. Should we change?
Not necessarily — if it works and it is genuinely on your own domain, that may be fine. What matters is whether the business controls the accounts and whether the authentication records are correct. We can check both.
Our email keeps going to spam. Can you fix it?
Usually, yes. It is almost always missing or incorrect SPF, DKIM and DMARC records, and those are fixable.
Do you host the website yourself or use a third-party provider?
Third-party data centres — two or three of them, and we place each client in whichever suits the requirement. We take virtual machines there and manage them for you. We would rather say that plainly than imply we own a building: what you are paying us for is the setup, the management and someone who answers when it breaks. A data centre also has power, cooling and network redundancy that no office server room does.
Who owns the domain and the hosting account?
You do. Accounts are registered in the business’s name with the business’s details. We will not hold a client’s domain hostage, and you should be cautious of anyone who does.
Let us look at your current setup
Run it yourself, now. Our DNS and email records check reads the public records for any domain and tells you in plain language what is set up and what is missing. Looking for a name rather than checking one? The domain availability check is next door. Both are free, neither asks for your details, and you are welcome to use them and go no further.