Hosting & Infrastructure

Hosting that keeps you online. Even for sites we didn't build.

Most agencies hand hosting to a third party. We don't. We run our own infrastructure – physical and cloud servers, CDN, security, and round-the-clock monitoring – and we'll take on your site whether or not we built it. Uptime becomes our problem, not yours.

01What's included

Everything that keeps a news site fast, safe, and online.

i.

Servers

Physical and cloud infrastructure, provisioned and tuned for traffic that arrives in spikes – millions of readers in an hour, not a day.

ii.

CDN, DNS & speed

A managed content-delivery network with image optimization and a global DNS network, plus caching policies that keep even the homepage instantly fresh – so pages load fast for every reader, everywhere.

iii.

Security

WAF, DDoS mitigation and rate limiting at the edge; an origin shield and origin servers reachable only from whitelisted IPs behind it; and managed endpoint protection across servers. We've kept sites standing through some of the heaviest sustained attack waves a newsroom can face.

iv.

Monitoring

24/7 monitoring with every-minute checks on front-end, back-end and database availability. When something looks wrong at 2am, it's our phone that rings – not yours.

v.

Scaling

Capacity that grows in stages, from launch-day traffic to a top-50 global news site, without re-platforming.

vi.

Isolated editorial backend

Your CMS runs on its own platform, kept separate from resource-heavy front-end traffic, so your editors keep publishing even when a story blows up.

vii.

Redundancy & backups

A replicated database cluster with automatic failover, database backups several times a day, and full daily backups of database and files, with a tested recovery plan – so a single fault, or a bad day, stays a small one.

02Why it's different

Hosting isn't the part we outsource. It's the part we own.

Most web shops build your site, then point you at a hosting company that's never heard of you – so when something breaks, you're explaining your own site to a stranger in a support queue. We took the opposite path. We run the infrastructure ourselves, which means the people keeping your site online are the same people you already work with.

Which is exactly why we're glad to host sites we didn't build.

Bring us your existing publication and we'll migrate it, harden it, and run it like one of our own – same team, same inbox, same person who answers the phone. No rebuild required to get the infrastructure our own clients rely on.

03Proven at scale

Tested at the scale of breaking news.

Top 50
busiest news sites in the world, hosted by us
56.3M
monthly readers at peak, served without downtime
Millions/hr
traffic surges absorbed without a blip
24/7
monitoring and on-call response

In October and November 2023, a site we host was the fastest-growing news site in the world for two straight months – a 429% year-on-year surge – and it never went down.

The infrastructure held.

Want us to host your site?

Tell us what you're running now and where it hurts. We'll come back with a plan to take your infrastructure off your plate – whether we built your site or not.

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