Website hosting with setup and domain support, so you have one team to call when you need help.
Every website needs somewhere to live. Web hosting is the service that stores your website’s files and delivers them to visitors whenever someone opens your address. You may never think about it while it works, but it affects how quickly your site loads, how secure it is and how easily problems get resolved.
At Mick Web Agency, we offer website hosting with setup and domain support, tailored for WordPress websites. The main advantage is simplicity: the team that builds and looks after your website also looks after where it lives, so you have one place to go when you need help.
Hosting can look like a small technical detail, but it touches several things your business cares about.
Speed: visitors are less patient with slow websites, particularly on mobile connections. The server your site runs on is one of the factors that shapes how quickly pages load.
Security: your hosting setup forms part of how your website and your visitors’ information are protected, working alongside updates and an SSL certificate.
Support: when something goes wrong, you want to speak to someone who understands your website, rather than being passed between companies who each blame the other.
Hosting can also be combined with our website management service, which adds WordPress updates, regular backups, uptime monitoring and content updates.
People often mix these up, so it helps to separate them. Your domain is your address on the web, such as yourbusiness.com. Your hosting is the space where the website itself is stored. The domain points visitors to the hosting. You need both for a website to work, and they do not have to come from the same provider.
If you already own a domain, you can usually keep it and simply point it to your new hosting. If you do not have one yet, we can talk through how to choose and register one. Either way, make sure the domain is registered in your name, so that it stays under your control.
Unhappy with your current provider? Moving a website involves copying its files and database to the new server, then pointing the domain across once everything has been checked. Done carefully, it causes little disruption for your visitors. We can handle these technical details for you, and we will talk through the timing beforehand so there are no surprises.
When your web designer and your hosting company are separate, problems can fall between them. The hosting company says the issue is in the website, and the developer says it is in the server, while you wait in the middle. Keeping both with one team removes that back-and-forth, because whoever looks into the problem can see the whole picture.
Our hosting is designed for businesses that would rather not manage servers themselves, and would value having support from people who know their website. It is tailored for WordPress, which is the platform we primarily use for the websites we build.
If you have a highly specialised setup or your own technical team, a different arrangement may suit you better, and we are happy to discuss that honestly. Either way, you remain the owner of your website.
Whichever provider you use, make sure that recent backups of your website exist and can actually be restored. Backups are what allow you to recover from a mistake, a failed update or a security issue. If you choose our website management service and we host your site, regular backups are part of what we look after.
Whether you need hosting for a new website or are thinking about moving an existing one, we can help you work out the best approach. Contact us and tell us about your website and your current setup, and we will advise you on the next steps.
