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Northcity Solutions

Hosting

The server is my problem now.

Your site, your mail, your backups, on machines I run and watch every day. Two ways to do it. Both come with me, not a support queue.

Shared

Regular hosting

A well-kept spot on a server I already run. Right for a practice site, a book site, a course, a small shop. Most people belong here.

  • Your site and your mail, set up so mail actually lands
  • Nightly backups you never have to think about
  • Updates tested before they touch your site
  • Uptime watched around the clock, by me and by machines
  • One monthly number, no surprise renewals

Who it fits

Neil. Most people.

Dedicated

Your own server

A machine that is only yours. Right when the site does something heavy: a mailing list in the tens of thousands, a custom application, traffic spikes, or rules about who your data sits next to.

  • A server nobody else shares
  • Sized for what you actually run, resized when that changes
  • Mailing lists and applications that cannot hiccup mid-send
  • Staged updates and a pre-flight check before every change
  • A short monthly report on what happened and what I did

Who it fits

Randy. Rob. Brent.

Either way, this is true

I move you in

Files, database, domain, mail. Cutover planned so nobody outside notices. No public mess.

Keys if you want them

You get your own login and, if you want it, your own key to the server. Or you hand it all to me.

Restores, not just backups

A backup only counts if it comes back. I test the restore, not just the copy.

You reach me

Something breaks, you text or email me. No ticket number. No tier one.

The technical version
Stack
Plesk for shared. Dedicated VPS or EC2 sized per client. PHP-FPM, MariaDB, Let's Encrypt, Cloudflare in front.
Mail
Authenticated sending through Amazon SES with SPF, DKIM, DMARC set right. Per-client IAM identities.
Backups
Nightly to S3 plus UpdraftPlus where it fits. Restores rehearsed on staging.
Updates
WordPress core, plugins, and themes staged first, checked, then promoted. Server load and send queues gated before any pass.
Monitoring
Uptime monitors, fail2ban, admin-account review, xmlrpc closed. Alerts route to me.
Reporting
Monthly hosted report behind a signed link. What ran, what changed, what I fixed.

Not sure which one you need?

Tell me what's running and where. I'll tell you which pile it belongs in and what it costs. Moving in is my job, including the mail.

Tell me what you're sitting on