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Hosting that just works, managed, monitored, fast.

High-performance managed hosting for NZ businesses. Cloudways Silver Partner — enterprise infrastructure on DigitalOcean, Vultr, AWS or GCP, with NVMe storage, Cloudflare Enterprise CDN, daily backups, free SSL, and a real human when something needs attention.

Server rack with rows of blue-lit blade servers receding into the distance
Duration live in 1 day
Investment from $39/mo
Engagement monthly · scalable
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Official Silver Partner

Verified Cloudways agency partner with priority infrastructure access and dedicated engineering support.

Why Cloudways

Enterprise infrastructure without the enterprise price tag.

Our Cloudways partnership gives your site the same infrastructure that powers high-traffic SaaS platforms — fully managed, pay-as-you-go, and scaled on demand across 55 locations and 116 data centres worldwide.

Free SSL Certificates

Auto-provisioned and auto-renewed for every domain on your account.

Daily Off-Site Backups

Off-site backups with one-click restoration. Your data is always safe and reachable.

Lightning Stack

NGINX + PHP-FPM. Up to 65% faster response times than traditional hosting stacks.

Fully Managed Hosting

We handle server config, security patches, and updates so you focus on growing the business.

Staging Environments

Test changes on a clone of your live site before pushing anything to production.

Vertical Scaling

Add CPU, RAM, and storage on demand without taking the site offline.

OS-Level Firewalls

Dedicated firewalls filter malicious traffic before it reaches your application.

NVMe SSD Storage

NVMe SSD across all providers for dramatically reduced page load times.

Sound familiar?

Hosting shouldn't be a headache.

Most businesses don't think about hosting until something breaks. By then you're scrambling to fix what should have been solid from day one.

Our site goes down and nobody tells us — we hear about it from customers.

What we do. We monitor uptime and core vitals 24/7. If something breaks, we know first — and most of the time we fix it before you notice.

Every 'managed host' we've used was just a control panel and a help docs link.

What we do. We're a Cloudways Silver Partner — the platform is enterprise, but the support line is a human at our studio. No tier-1 ticket merry-go-round.

Our hosting got slow as we grew and migrating felt scary.

What we do. Vertical scaling is one click — more CPU, RAM, or storage with minimal downtime. We handle the migration in or out at no extra cost.

Performance

Latency is the new downtime.

Every millisecond counts. Here's what powers the speed.

3×
Faster than SATA SSD

NVMe storage

Database queries processed in milliseconds on the latest NVMe drives.

<1s
Optimised load time

Server-side cache

Object Cache Pro + Redis for optimised sites. Real speeds vary by site complexity.

99.9%
Uptime SLA

Always online

Powered by Cloudways' infrastructure SLA with real-time monitoring across 16+ server metrics.

Included with every plan

More than hosting — managed by humans.

Every plan comes with hands-on management from our engineering team. You get the infrastructure and the people who keep it running.

01

Server hardening

Server configured and secured specifically for your stack — WordPress, Laravel, SilverStripe, or custom PHP.

02

Server monitoring

16+ metrics tracked around the clock — CPU, memory, disk, traffic — with automated alerts so we catch issues early.

03

Security risk alerts

We flag outdated plugins, expired themes, and known vulnerabilities before they become a problem.

04

Onboarding & DNS setup

We handle the initial DNS pointing, SSL provisioning, and server configuration so your site goes live smoothly.

05

Incident response

When something goes wrong, we investigate and resolve it quickly. You get a clear explanation of what happened and what we did to fix it.

06

Direct access to our team

Slack or email — talk directly to the engineers managing your server. No support tiers, no escalation queues, NZ business hours.

Questions

The questions every host gets asked.

Do you assist with site migrations?

Yes. Your first site migration is included free with any new plan. Additional migrations are a flat $99 NZD each — we move files, database, DNS, and test everything on staging before cutting over to production, with minimal downtime.

What security measures are in place?

OS-level firewall, free auto-renewing SSL, bot protection, and automated security patches. We also run weekly malware scans on WordPress sites.

Can I upgrade my plan later?

Yes. Cloudways supports vertical scaling — increase CPU, RAM, and storage anytime with minimal downtime. Billing is pro-rated to the day.

Which cloud providers can I choose?

DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform — pick the provider and region that fits your audience. Sydney is the usual choice for NZ.

Want hosting that just works? Start with a migration audit.

Send us your current setup and we'll send back a free migration plan — what we'd move, how long it takes, and the monthly cost. Two business days.