Biz Hoist provides website maintenance services for small businesses: managed hosting on servers we run ourselves, speed tuning, backups, security updates and monitoring. It is the layer most agencies hand to a hosting company and stop thinking about. Running our own is the only reason we can promise anything about speed and mean it.
Last updated September 2026Nobody notices infrastructure until it fails. That is precisely why it deserves attention before it does. Certificates come from Let’s Encrypt, and servers run long-term-support Ubuntu, patched on a schedule.
Your site on a server we configure — not shared hosting where a thousand other sites compete for the same CPU. Tuned for what you are actually running.
Caching, compression, image handling, database indexing and PHP tuning. Our website speed optimization services start with a measured baseline — the work behind a score going from the fifties to the nineties.
Ubuntu, Nginx, PHP-FPM, MariaDB, certificates and firewall, configured properly rather than left on defaults. Defaults are safe, not fast. This is the core of our server management services.
SSH keys with password login disabled, firewall rules, intrusion protection, and permissions set so a compromised application cannot take the machine.
Scheduled and stored off the server. A backup nobody has ever restored is a hope, not a backup.
Uptime, disk, memory and certificate expiry watched as part of every plan in our website maintenance services. We would rather find out before you do.
Records configured correctly, including SPF, DKIM and DMARC so your email reaches inboxes rather than spam folders.
Moving from shared hosting or another provider, sequenced so the site does not disappear mid-transfer.
Core, theme and plugin updates tested before they go live. Our WordPress website maintenance services keep a rollback point for every change, so an update cannot take you offline.
Text edits, image swaps and minor layout fixes handled within the retainer, so you are not paying per email for the little things.
Server response, database queries, asset sizes, or simply the wrong host. Guessing at performance problems wastes money on the wrong fix.
Not the biggest instance available, and not the cheapest. Enough headroom for your traffic pattern, which is usually less than people fear.
Nginx tuned, PHP-FPM pools sized, OPcache on, database indexed. Default configurations are written to be safe everywhere, which means fast nowhere.
Firewall, key-only SSH, intrusion protection, least-privilege database users. Done at setup, because retrofitting security is how things get missed.
Both configured and verified before the site goes live, rather than after the first incident makes the case for them.
DNS lowered in advance, files and database moved, tested on the new server before the switch. Downtime measured in minutes, not hours.
If the site earns you money, usually yes. Shared hosting is fine for a brochure site nobody depends on. Once you are taking bookings or selling, the difference between a two-second and a six-second load shows up in revenue — and shared hosting cannot be tuned.
No, and we mean that. Hosting with us is how we can promise speed, but every build can be deployed wherever you like. We hand over the code and help you set it up.
We monitor uptime and get alerted before most clients notice. Backups are off-server so a failed machine does not take your data with it. We do not offer a formal SLA — a small studio honestly cannot — and we would rather say that than pretend.
Usually. We run a diagnostic first and tell you whether the problem is the server, the code or the theme. Sometimes the honest answer is that the site is beyond tuning and rebuilding costs less than fighting it.
It runs your URL through Google’s PageSpeed Insights and shows the real score, Core Web Vitals and the biggest opportunities. Same data Google uses. It is genuinely useful on its own, and it is free because it is how most people find us.
It depends on what the site runs and how much changes month to month; a brochure site needs far less than a store with daily orders. Our website maintenance services are quoted as one fixed monthly figure after we have looked at the site, covering hosting, updates, backups, monitoring and small fixes. No long lock-in.
Yes. Google uses Core Web Vitals as a ranking signal, and slow server response drags every one of them down. AI crawlers also tend to skip or cut short pages that load slowly or depend on heavy JavaScript. Fast hosting is not the whole story, but it is the part most sites neglect.
Yes. We start with an audit of the theme, plugins, hosting and backups, fix anything risky, then take over updates and monitoring. If the site is in poor shape we will say so and quote the cleanup separately, rather than quietly inheriting the problems.
The free tool on our homepage tells you where you stand in about a minute, using Google’s own measurements. It is the quickest first step before any website speed optimization service.
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