Let us manage your website with our managed hosting solutions.
Hosting a website is tricky, there's endless security updates to stop hackers and keeping your website backed up and up to date is a time consuming affair.
Our managed web hosting solution will ensure your website is online 24/7/365 with minimal downtime, up to date and secure and backed up so if something does break or go wrong we can restore it fast. Further we ensure it's loading fast and optimised for SEO.
Handling all this yourself can be restless - especially as you're putting all your trust in your web hosting company - an industry known for buyouts and receiverships on an almost daily basis.
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Why use Kāpiti IT?
Kapiti Managed Services
Best IT Experience.
Personal service
We know your website inside out. We don't franchise or churn through staff. Our techs will know you by name and will be someone you can rely on.
On demand help
Whether somethings not working as it should or an emergency, or you'd like to do a big project, we'll be there to assist you every time.
Sociable techs
Yes we're techy, but we can hold a conversation in simple terms, not technical jargon that's impossible to decipher, that's a promise.
All your tech
We don't just look at your primary website, we're able to take care of your email hosting, DNS, domain name and other website services.
Dear Website Owner,
For most startups and small businesses, having a fast loading, reliable and secure website is critical for business credibility but also for SEO purposes.
Further paid ads, are you aware of how many people hit back before actually landing on your website, yet you're still paying up to $10 per click?
Whether you're running WordPress or your own CMS, regular updates to software and database maintenance is important - there's nearly a cyber attack per day in New Zealand, so protecting yourself from security vulnerabilities is a must!
Most people put their trust in their small-time web hosting company, web designer or IT guy who knows a little bit about web development or hosting a site, and not a lot about security, DNS, caching, backups and the importance of regular maintenance to ensure their website is always online, always recoverable in the event of a major disaster and is free from malware, spyware and other vulnerabilities such as SQL injection attacks and ransomware.
Our managed web hosting is a complete done for you solution for hosting your website, database or web application.
Whether you've got a small WordPress blog, a powerhouse eCommerce store, or you're hosting the next major conference website, we'll take care of it.
Managed hosting isn't a one size fits all, so we can't give you a package but we charge a minimum of $295 per month which includes one hour of support, maintenance and security on your website. If something breaks, our daily backups can be restored fast.
If more time is required we charge out of scope under time and materials billing. Additionally you'll pay for resources you use such as disk space, bandwidth, server location, backups required (hourly, daily, monthly etc) and any special features such as MYSQL or CDN disk space.
Get in touch to see how we can manage your website.
Why You Need Managed Hosting
Firstly, our managed hosting solution isn't for everyone. If you've got a web presence for the purpose of attracting a few extra leads per month, we're not expecting you to want this service.
Your web host will do a great job.
If you're a growing website and want the very best support, security and done-for-you solution, then managed hosting is the way to go. We'll monitor your website by sending ping requests every 15 minutes, ensuring your website is online and accessible. If it's not, we'll spring into action and fix it.
We'll keep on track of your website security, ensure it's free from malware, SQL-injections and other attacks. We'll ensure your website loads super fast all the time using caching, CDN image hosting and DDoS Protection.
Stop worrying about what to do when your website crashes or goes offline, has a corrupt database or has a major problem. Let us take charge and rectify the situation fast. Want to make changes without fear about the ramifications of doing so? Let us know and we'll take an out of bound update for instant restoration if something breaks!
Want to test something, update your DNS or change something? Let us know via our client portal and we'll sort it fast.
This comes with a low monthly price, often less than 3-4 hours of labour which you'd pay a web designer or employee to do for you. Save the hassle and let an experienced IT company handle it for you.
our Kapiti Managed Hosting Includes:
Managed Web Hosting FAQs
What type of web hosting do you provide?
We offer linux hosting with cPanel, or WordPress specific hosting with no server access.
What does managed mean?
Managed means we manage your web hosting for you. Traditional web hosts will provide space on a server but little else. If you get hacked or break something they'll likely restore your website for you but may not have up to date backups. Similar to a property manager, we'll manage everything for you. You focus on growing your business, updating content (or let us do that too!).
Managed means we take care of backups, site migrations, updates, security patching, vulnerability testing as well as notifying you of updates required for plugins etc. This comes for a low monthly fee which includes an hour per month of work on your hosting plus an hourly rate for any out-of-scope work.
What backups do you offer?
We'll schedule and manage your backups using Wasabi with one click restore by us if the website ever breaks. Backups are king when it comes to making changes to your live website as a major issue could disrupt your business. We offer complimentary daily backups, with hourly backups an optional addon for demanding sites. cPanel users can handle their own backups using Jet Backups too should they wish.
Who looks after the domain name?
You manage your domain via your domain provider such as Free Parking, 1stDomains etc. We'll point the domain as a DNS provider such as Cloudflare or Cloudns, allowing us to make DNS changes to your website in realtime without needing access to your domain provider.
Never let a web host, IT contractor or web designer manage your domain. We've seen far too many businesses end up losing access to their site due to a rogue individual, company going bankrupt or worse, being held to ransom by ex employee or vendor.
Recovering a domain name can cost upwards of $3,000+gst and take 3 months and may not be successful either. An appeal costs $8,000 and could take a further 3 months, meanwhile your domain name is completely unuseable.
Where will you host my website?
For most cPanel clients we use a Sydney or Melbourne datacenter.
WordPress hosting is in our Auckland datacenter - we use Voyager.
Can you sort out my email too?
We recommend clients move their email to a proper email platform such as Microsoft 365 or Google Mail. - We can assist with migrating to Microsoft 365.
Smaller customers can use our email hosting service.
Spam and spam rules and regulations are difficult to keep up with, whereas big companies like Microsoft are hosting billions of customer email addresses so have no issues. We can help migrate your email to platforms such as Microsoft and you can pay Microsoft directly. We'll help support your email.
I'm paying $5 a month for hosting, why would I pay $500 per month?
You're paying for our management service. Similar to renting out your home, you can definitely find tenants and handle those business relations by yourself for free, or you could pay a property management company to manage everything for you. This costs money as a labour cost is involved, often a fixed fee per month. Web hosting is similar.
If you know what you're doing or are happy with your web hosts service you can definitely pay $5 a month and get by. But what happens when your website crashes, goes offline, database becomes corrupted or gets hacked?
Are you able to quickly restore it and have the time and knowledge to do that? Are you able to regularly update all your plugins, test your website and ensure it's always online 24/7 and loads fast? We can and will under our management service which costs more than $5 a month.
Kapiti Managed Hosting Pricing
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WordPress / Website
$295
Per website per month (starting price)
eCommerce
$595
Per website per month (starting price)
Server space: Commonly called disk space, all customers get 2GB to start with on high speed SSD or NVME servers. If your website needs more disk space we'll quote for this in blocks of 1GB. If you're hosting a lot of images we recommend a CDN to speed up image loading and place less resources on your actual server.
Backups: We can backup your website as frequently as every 5 minutes for critical websites. Most plans will include daily or hourly backups. We use Wasabi cloud to store your backups. One click restore can be actioned by our staff by logging a ticket. If you'd like to download a full backup as a .zip file this can be provided too.
Server location: Most clients require NZ servers for faster page loading and data protection. However global clients prefer Australia or US. Different content can be hosted in US vs AU and NZ such as adult content.
Pricing: All pricing excludes GST and is payable on checkout for NZ residents.
DNS: We can manage your DNS too including making DNS changes. Alternatively host your own DNS and make changes as required to use our managed hosting service.
Contact Us
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We'd love to discuss with you over the phone, but sometimes you may want to ask for help or guidance over email. Please complete the form and one of our team will reply within 1 working day.
For faster response, please call - if we're out on a job or unavailable please leave a detailed message. We will call you back ASAP.
OUR EMAIL:
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027 959 5000
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