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Cheap Hosting vs. Managed Hosting: What Small Businesses Need to Know

Bargain hosting plans advertise a few dollars a month. For a hobby blog, that might be fine. For a business that depends on its website for leads, the math often looks different.

What you get with bargain hosting

Low-cost shared hosting puts hundreds of sites on the same server. When a neighbor gets a traffic spike or gets hacked, your site can slow down or go offline. Support usually means a ticket queue, and updates, backups and security are left to you.

What managed hosting adds

  • Speed. Server-level caching and modern PHP make pages load faster — which helps both visitors and Google rankings.
  • Security. Free SSL, monitoring and a host that keeps the server patched.
  • Staging. Test changes on a copy of your site before they go live.
  • Real support. Someone who knows your site and can actually fix the problem.

The real cost of downtime

If your website brings in even a few leads a week, a single day offline can cost more than a year of the difference between cheap and managed hosting.

Our hosting plans

We offer straightforward managed hosting plans with free SSL and business email, supported by the same team that builds our sites. See our pricing page for details.

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