WordPress hosting on servers you actually own.
Host WordPress on your own cloud servers at DigitalOcean, AWS or Linode. WPShift handles all the setup, then manages your domains, DNS and email inboxes.
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Host WordPress on
Managed hosting priced per site stops making sense at about site four.
A single $40 server runs twenty WordPress sites comfortably. Most managed hosts will sell you those twenty sites for twenty times the price, on hardware you never see, with SSH access as a paid upgrade. WPShift charges for the management layer and leaves the infrastructure where it belongs — in your account, on your terms.
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You pay your provider directly.
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Your key, every plan.
Cloud servers
You open an account with a cloud company like Hetzner or DigitalOcean, and give WPShift permission to use it. We build the server, install everything WordPress needs, and look after it from then on. The server sits in your account, on your bill, and stays there if you ever stop using us.
Read morePHP versions
PHP is the programming language WordPress is written in, and newer versions run the same site noticeably faster. The catch is that an old plugin or theme can break on a new version. WPShift installs several versions of PHP on one server and lets you choose one per site, so you can move a site forward on its own — and move it straight back if something misbehaves.
Read moreWordPress sites
Pick a server, pick a domain, and WPShift installs WordPress, sets up a database, gets the security certificate and puts the site online. You can also copy a site you already run here, or move one across from your current host.
Read moreBackups
WPShift copies your content and your files on whatever schedule you set, and keeps those copies somewhere other than the server they came from. Putting one back is a normal thing you can do on a quiet afternoon, not a procedure you read about for the first time while a client is on the phone.
Read moreUptime monitoring
Every five minutes we load your site from outside your server and record what came back. If it stops answering, you hear about it. And because we are also recording how hard the server is working, you usually get to see what led up to it instead of just being told it happened.
Read moreDomains & DNS
DNS is the address book of the internet. It tells browsers which server your domain lives on, and tells mail systems where to deliver your email. Run it here and the entries for the sites you host are written and kept up to date for you, including the ones that decide whether your email arrives at all.
Read moreMove a site without a maintenance window.
Install the WPShift plugin on your current site, pick a destination server, and the import runs in the background — database, uploads, plugins and themes. You review it on a staging URL before DNS moves.