Essentials

From the ground up our hosting is built, optimised and secured on the server for WordPress. This means your server resources are allocated more efficiently and your site runs faster out of the gate.

Every production, or live site includes a staging site ready to be activated for development and testing. We can push / pull from production to staging and staging to production.

Your site is continually backed up both to a local and remote location. We can adjust your backup schedule according to your specific needs, with hourly, daily and weekly parameters available. Need specific backup requirements? We can also arrange for backups to be sent to your preferred cloud location (eg Google Drive).

Server level caching provides superior performance over plugin-based caching solutions – reducing database size and plugin dependencies.

We provide two server level caching options: Redis Nginx Page Caching and Redis Nginx FastCGI Caching.

Talk to us about the best caching options for your website.

We use Better Stack to monitor your website 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Alerts can be sent to your email or phone. And with intervals as low as 30 seconds, you’ll know your site is up every minute.

The 7G Firewall provides lightweight, server-level protection against various threats like malicious requests, bad bots, automated attacks, and spam.

The 7G Firewall uses optimized rewrite rules to check all URI requests. This process happens quietly at the server level, enhancing performance by avoiding the need to use PHP and MySQL to block bad requests. This makes server-level security more effective than using a plugin or other PHP script.

Transactional email refers to email notifications (contact form email, order notifications) sent by your website.

We use SendGrid to ensure your website is able to deliver email more reliably. With this integration you won’t need a SMTP plugin, reducing your website’s dependencies, potential conflicts and points-of-failure and attack surface.

We use and recommend Cloudflare for managing your domains DNS. Cloudflare provides efficient DNS management and fast DNS Record propagation, along with a range of first line of defence security benefits such as DDoS protection.

We use and recommend Cloudflare for both its DNS management and DDoS protection. Cloudflare’s “intelligent and automated mitigations at the edge” block around 170 billion daily threats.

The 7G Firewall provides lightweight, server-level protection against various threats like malicious requests, bad bots, automated attacks, and spam.

The 7G Firewall uses optimized rewrite rules to check all URI requests. This process happens quietly at the server level, enhancing performance by avoiding the need to use PHP and MySQL to block bad requests. This makes server-level security more effective than using a plugin or other PHP script.

We’re able to deploy a range of WP-specific hardening functions that regular hosts do not provide. 

These measures – including blocking WP upgrade and install scripts – are individually configured according to your website requirements.

Get in touch for a list of these configurable WordPress application settings.

We constantly monitor every one of your WordPress applications – at the core, theme and plugin levels. This is married against the web’s largest WP vulnerability database – so if there is any vulnerability we can act immediately.

We use Fortress to Unlock Enterprise-Grade WordPress Security.

By only supporting PHP 7.4, 8.0, and 8.1, Fortress uses the powerful encryption library libsodium to its fullest potential.

Two-Factor Authentication Fortress offers a 2FA suite with strong, layered defenses that protect your data even if your entire database is compromised.

Password Security Fortress uses argon2-based password hashing, making it extremely difficult for hackers to crack your passwords.

Login Protection Fortress has a custom rate-limit system that stops even severe distributed brute force attacks without using frustrating captchas.

Session Protection Fortress provides top-level protection against session hijacking and cookie theft, similar to what Fortune 500 companies use.

Vaults & Pillars Never store sensitive data in plain text again. Fortress Vaults secure your data, and Pillars protect important settings in the wp_options table.

Code Freeze Fortress offers robust defense against attackers who gain access to an administrator account, providing protection almost as strong as an immutable codebase.

*Only available on Enterprise plans

We use and recommend Patchstack – the world’s largest vulnerability discloser, with 5000+ patches to protect your site. Advance vulnerability warning and patching takes your site beyond malware scanning – which only detects that your site has an issue after it’s infected. By accessing patches, we can ensure your site’s security even when theme of plugin developers have not secured their software.

WPFail2Ban is a WordPress security plugin that provides another layer of protection against brute-force login attacks. WPFail2Ban helps prevent brute-force attacks by monitoring login attempts and logging suspicious activities. When someone tries to log in to a WordPress site and fails, WPFail2Ban logs this failed attempt. Fail2Ban monitors these logs and, if it sees too many failed attempts from a single IP, it blocks that IP.

Where possible, we’ll make recommendations on minimising plugin dependencies. Many sites we encounter have multiple plugins ‘doing the same thing’ – feature overlap.

Or plugins are used to make customisations that could be made on a theme-level. We often find that we’re able to significantly reduces plugins while maintaining custom functionality, increasing site speed and minimising security and software conflict issues.

Your site’s software – from WP Core to Theme to Plugins should be kept constantly updated. In addition to regularl scheduled updates, we also ensure your software is updated whenever security releases occur.

Every additional plugin on your site increases both your attack vulnerability surface area and introduces a potential point of failure due to software conflicts. Effective software management means identifying and mitigating against failure.

Plugin optimisation and management, together with software updates means your website and server stack are always up-to-date. We also manage your site’s PHP version, further enhancing security and performance.

Theme and theme framework updates are an often overlooked aspect of WP site management. We ensure that appropriate code is written to the theme rather than as a separate plugin, where appropriate.