Your Website Is Live. Now Someone Has to Take Care of It.

A Website Isn't a One-Time Project

Launching your website is the beginning—not the end. Hosting, domains, SSL certificates, WordPress, themes, plugins, databases, APIs, payments, forms, analytics, email, and third-party integrations all change over time.

Blue Bird Media can continue managing the technical side after launch so you aren't left trying to figure everything out yourself.

More Than Server Space

Managed hosting is for businesses that want someone responsible for the technical environment behind the website. You are not simply renting storage on a server—you are paying for help keeping the website operating.

• Website hosting and SSL certificates
• Server configuration
• Backups
• Uptime and performance monitoring
• Security monitoring
• WordPress maintenance
• Technical troubleshooting
• DNS assistance
• Database management
• Technical support

Websites Need Maintenance Too

Software, browsers, plugins, and APIs change, security vulnerabilities are discovered, and updates occasionally create new problems. Ongoing maintenance helps identify and address issues before they become larger problems.

• WordPress core, plugin, and theme updates
• Compatibility checks
• Broken-functionality and form testing
• Database maintenance
• Minor technical fixes
• Performance and integration issues

If Something Goes Wrong, Can Your Website Be Restored?

A server failure, bad update, security incident, accidental deletion, or software conflict can create serious problems. A backup strategy is not simply about creating backups—it includes a process for restoring them.

• Website files and databases
• Configuration data
• Automated schedules
• Off-site storage
• Backup retention
• Restoration assistance

Reduce Risk. Prepare for Problems.

No website or hosting provider can guarantee that a website will never experience a security issue. What we can do is reduce unnecessary risk through a collection of practices working together.

• SSL and software updates
• Security and malware monitoring
• Login protection
• Two-factor authentication recommendations
• Firewall configuration
• Backup systems
• Access management
• Security hardening
• Recovery planning

Don't Let Customers Be the First to Tell You Your Website Is Down

Monitoring can help identify availability problems so they can be investigated. It does not mean downtime can never happen—it means someone is paying attention when something goes wrong.

• Website availability
• SSL status
• Server health
• Application errors
• Performance issues
• Critical services

Your Website Shouldn't Get Slower Every Year

Plugins, images, scripts, database records, tracking tools, integrations, and old functionality can accumulate over time. Ongoing management can help prevent unnecessary performance problems from accumulating.

• Caching and image optimization
• Database performance
• CDN configuration
• Server resources
• WordPress configuration
• Plugin overhead
• Front-end assets

We'll Handle the Technical Side

You focus on customers, content, products, and your business. We focus on updates, backups, hosting, monitoring, technical issues, and website infrastructure.

E-Commerce Needs Extra Attention

WooCommerce sites involve products, payments, accounts, inventory, shipping, taxes, transactional email, integrations, and checkout. Because revenue can be affected directly, they may require a higher level of monitoring and maintenance.

Hosting Beyond WordPress

For custom applications we build and support, infrastructure can be designed around the application rather than forcing every project onto the same server.

• Application and database hosting
• SSL and deployment
• Background processes and queue workers
• File storage
• Backups and monitoring
• API configuration
• Performance management

You Have Someone to Contact

When something goes wrong, you do not have to determine whether the cause is the server, WordPress, a plugin, DNS, SSL, an API, the database, or a payment provider. You contact Blue Bird Media and we investigate the appropriate next step.

Some issues may involve third-party providers or work outside a maintenance plan, but you have a technical point of contact who can help identify what is happening.

Technical Help Without Starting From Scratch

When the same company develops and maintains the website, we already understand how it was built. Larger redesigns, new functionality, custom development, and substantial content work may be quoted separately.

• Technical questions and troubleshooting
• Minor website changes
• Content assistance
• Plugin and hosting issues
• DNS assistance
• Integration troubleshooting

Managed Service Levels

Choose the level of support your website needs. These are starting ranges rather than guaranteed pricing.

Essential — Starting around $75–$125/month

• Managed hosting
• SSL
• Automated backups
• WordPress and plugin updates
• Uptime monitoring
• Basic technical support

Business — Starting around $150–$300/month

• Everything in Essential
• Enhanced monitoring
• Performance management
• Security monitoring
• Priority support
• Database maintenance
• Integration monitoring
• Monthly maintenance time

Commerce — Starting around $300–$600+/month

• Everything in Business
• WooCommerce and checkout attention
• Payments and customer accounts
• Store functionality and integrations
• Higher backup frequency
• Priority troubleshooting

Custom Application — Custom Pricing

• Application and database hosting
• Deployment and queue workers
• API monitoring
• Backups and storage
• Infrastructure management
• Ongoing technical support

Hosting Needs Are Different for Every Website

Final pricing may depend on website complexity, traffic, storage, e-commerce, backup frequency, support requirements, integrations, server requirements, custom applications, and response times. We recommend a plan based on what the website actually needs.

What Isn't Included?

Managed hosting and maintenance are not unlimited development plans. We communicate when a request falls outside the current plan before beginning additional billable work.

• Website redesigns and new pages
• New features or custom plugins
• Major content changes
• New integrations
• E-commerce customization
• Emergency work caused by third-party changes
• Marketing and video production
• Application development

We Manage Technology. You Maintain Ownership.

We generally recommend that businesses maintain ownership of their domain name. We can manage DNS, domain connections, SSL, hosting configuration, and technical settings, but the domain is an important business asset and should belong to your business.

Already Have a Website?

Depending on its condition and requirements, we may be able to migrate an existing site into a Blue Bird Media managed environment. Some websites require repairs, updates, or redevelopment before acceptance.

• 01 — Review the website, hosting, software, and integrations
• 02 — Create a backup
• 03 — Migrate to the appropriate environment
• 04 — Test important functionality
• 05 — Finalize launch and DNS changes
• 06 — Monitor after migration

Keep Development and Hosting Together

If we build your website, continuing with managed hosting gives you one technical partner who understands how it was built and can continue supporting it.

We're Developers, Not Just a Hosting Provider

When a site breaks, more server resources are not always the answer. Because we work across WordPress, WooCommerce, web applications, APIs, databases, hosting, AI integrations, and digital media, we can investigate from both the hosting and development sides.

Your Website Can Grow With Your Business

Managed hosting creates a foundation for long-term support as your business needs new functionality, WordPress or WooCommerce work, applications, integrations, automation, video, or digital marketing.

Stop Worrying About Your Website

You have a business to run. You should not have to spend your time wondering whether the backup ran, WordPress is updated, SSL works, the contact form is sending, or the website is available.

Let Blue Bird Media take care of the technology behind your website so you can take care of the business in front of it.