Managed hosting involves a hosting provider taking care of all technical aspects of hosting your website, including server maintenance, security, backups, and performance optimization. With managed hosting, if anything goes wrong with your site, it’s the provider’s responsibility to fix it. This differs from regular hosting where you are responsible for managing these aspects yourself.

North Shore Digital’s managed hosting and maintenance services offer several benefits, including fast and secure hosting, ongoing maintenance and updates, enhanced website performance, and CloudFlare Enterprise integration for added security and performance optimization. These services ensure that your website remains secure, up-to-date, and performs optimally, helping you rank higher in search engine results.

Website maintenance involves safe updating of WordPress plugins, which is crucial for keeping your website secure and protected against hacking attempts. By regularly updating plugins and implementing security measures, such as daily backups, spam removal, and 24/7 monitoring, website maintenance services help prevent security vulnerabilities and ensure the overall health of your website.

CloudFlare Enterprise integration enhances website security and performance by providing advanced caching, image optimization, and mobile optimization features. It also includes an intelligent firewall that blocks hacker attacks and DDoS mitigation capabilities, ensuring that your website remains available and protected against emerging threats. CloudFlare Enterprise significantly improves website performance and user experience, leading to higher SEO rankings and audience growth.

North Shore Digital takes WordPress security, vulnerability, and uptime seriously by using industry-leading hosting solutions, proactive security monitoring, and regular updates of WordPress core, themes, and plugins. Additionally, the team implements daily backups, advanced call tracking, and 24/7 uptime notification systems to ensure website security, stability, and availability.

For a little bit more per month, you should sign up to a managed hosting plan. It removes any stress about your website going down or it not being maintained. You also get better security and speed and this directly impacts your SEO and rankings, especially for mobile sites where speed is key.

Our main digital marketing programs focus on lead generation and search engine marketing. However, in order to offer full-service marketing and so we have full access and control over a client website, we moved into the hosting realm. This has enabled us to test multiple different hosting providers and find the best solution for business WordPress websites. In addition, we can now do all the technical SEO at server level for our websites and know what works and what doesn’t work. We can include bonuses and enhancements like CloudFlare Enterprise for no additional cost saving you approx. US$250 per month. Finally, we don’t just host, we do maintenance as part of your hosting program. This means we do safe updating of your WordPress core, theme and plugins every month as long as we don’t need to buy the new premium version. If this happens, we notify you via your monthly report, which shows you the health status of your website.

The monthly report shows you any issues with your website, such as a plugin with a security vulnerability. We actively work to remove these but sometimes need you to buy an updated license or other to resolve the problem. In addition, the report shows you what was updated in the previous month and other things such as your updated plugins. The monthly report is sent on the 1st of each month to your email inbox.

Yes, all websites we host are provided with an included SSL certificate that we set up as soon as we move the site to our hosting. It renews automatically.

Technically, yes, this is shared hosting. However, we have 4 different servers and each server has a dedicated IP with a ton of scalable resources. Our 100+ websites are distributed across these four servers dependent on resource usage, size and fees.

We do have the option for clients to purchase their own dedicated IP and have their own server but this is overkill. By using CloudFlare Enterprise on all our sites we are effectivity giving each website its own dedicated proxy IP address anyhow for extra security and speed. We also actively manage the reputation of all our websites as well.

No. Email admin and configuration is done either in-house by your IT team or by your IT managed services provider. We have local companies we work with and can recommend if you need help with email configuration. We do help with updating DNS records related to email since all email is configured at domain level.

All our full-service marketing clients are offered our hosting program included in their monthly fees. For the standalone program, we provide a fee depending on the size and complexity of the site. Reach out for a quote.

We host over 100 business websites across our 4 servers.