WordPress hosting run by real developers.

Database tuning

Database performance is essential to WordPress performance. If your site has custom database tables, or makes heavy use of user meta or post meta, some queries are probably slow. Our SQL tuning service can include:

Some third-party plugins have poorly written SQL. We diagnose slow queries and can often fix them with indexes. When that isn't possible, we contact the developers to request changes or find alternative plugins.

Careful, manual plugin updates

Plugins must be updated routinely. We update them by hand, then check key parts of your site for errors or conflicts.

Plugins interact with WordPress and with each other through hooks, and those hooks can change without warning. Any site that relies on interconnected plugins has to be maintained carefully. When a plugin breaks, we contact its developers with the technical details they need to fix the bug.

Custom code and hooks

WordPress and its community of plugins make a highly extensible platform for the front end of your business. Its real power is its hooks, actions and filters, which let you customize almost anything.

Maybe a developer built a custom theme or plugin you now need changed or maintained. Or maybe you used code snippets you found online or had AI generate. Either way, hooks change over time, and AI models are often trained on outdated documentation, so they can't always help when hooks fail.

That's where we step in. We find out why the hooks aren't working, dig into the code, and fix it.

Data transfers and migrations

Moving data into and out of WordPress is hard because of the many storage formats and table structures, from metadata to custom tables, sometimes stored serialized. We reverse-engineer how plugins store their data and either find a solution or write an importer. If you have data to import, maintain or clean up, we can do it.

Example imports:

API integrations

Few modern sites stand alone. Most sites we work on connect to third-party services, through APIs or through plugins, including:

Security

WordPress security is serious business. With its huge installed base, WordPress is a valuable target for attackers. End-to-end security means keeping the whole stack up to date: the hosting server, web server, PHP, plugins and WordPress itself. If your site has custom code, inputs must be sanitized and outputs escaped.

Securing WordPress is about more than patches. We also watch the traffic. Bots, scrapers, attack tools and botnets hammer even modest WordPress sites and threaten their performance and stability. That's why we created Bottle, our free, open-source security plugin, as one way to block excessive and malicious traffic.

Hosting and DNS

We move your website to our hosting platform, and we can also transfer and manage your DNS hosting, so you have one team responsible for keeping everything running.