The Challenge: Hosting That Could Keep Up
At North Shore Digital, we build and manage dozens of WordPress websites for home services, schools, health practices, and more. Over the years, we’ve worked with a range of hosting providers—some good, some not-so-good. But as we scaled, we ran into a few recurring issues:
- Performance inconsistency: Some sites loaded slowly or lagged under peak traffic.
- Security gaps: We needed stronger protection against threats.
- Limited control: We wanted to manage server-level settings without wrangling cPanel.
- Support that couldn’t scale: Waiting on tickets when a site’s down isn’t acceptable.
We needed a partner that could offer performance, security, flexibility—and peace of mind.
The Solution: Cloudways + DigitalOcean + CloudFlare Enterprise
After testing a few managed cloud hosting platforms, Cloudways stood out. Paired with DigitalOcean’s infrastructure, it checked every box:
- Speed: Our sites load faster, and we’re able to show clients tangible improvements in page speed metrics—great for SEO and UX.
- Security: With firewalls, bot protection, and automatic backups, we sleep better at night.
- Ease of Use: The Cloudways dashboard is clean, intuitive, and gives us real-time control without a steep learning curve.
- Support: Their 24/7 chat has been a game-changer. We’ve had rapid resolutions to everything from plugin conflicts to SSL setups.
By becoming a Cloudflare Enterprise Agency Partner, this has taken things to the next level. We appreciate being able to easily integrate Cloudways and Cloudflare in your dashboard, and we will turn on the Cloudflare Enterprise Add-on for all our clients now. This has unlocked even better security and performance for our clients.
The Result: A Better Product for Our Clients
Hosting may be in the background, but it powers everything. With Cloudways, we’re now able to offer a more stable, secure, and scalable foundation to our clients’ websites.
Whether we’re onboarding a private school with custom lead gen forms or managing a landscaping company’s seasonal traffic spike, we’re confident that their site will perform. That trust extends to our team too—we don’t have to micromanage uptime anymore.
Why It Matters
We talk a lot about SEO, UX, and conversion tracking—but none of that matters if the site is slow or unstable. Partnering with Cloudways has made our product better from the ground up. It’s one of those choices that just works—and keeps working.
And yes, being asked to participate in their case study was a nice bonus. 😊
If you’re interested to learn more about how our managed hosting and website maintenance program could benefit your company
