For publishers
Hosting for news sites that can’t go down on a big story
Your site stays up when a story breaks and readers arrive all at once, and your newsroom keeps publishing. We host and look after news sites and magazines.
What Publisher Hosting covers
The same set-up we run for the publishers we host, sized to your site and traffic.
Managed hosting
We set up and look after cloud hosting for your site. We keep the server and its security up to date, renew your SSL and watch uptime with automated alerts.
Traffic spikes
When a story spreads across WhatsApp and X, readers get a stored copy of the page from servers near them. Your own server never gets swamped.
Backups
Your archive is your main asset. We back up the site and database every day, keep the copies off the server and test restores on a schedule.
Sanity care, and moves off WordPress
We keep your Sanity newsroom up to date, manage editor accounts and fix what stops working. Still on WordPress? We move your articles to Sanity and point your old links at the new pages.
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Speed and search
Pages stay fast and images light as the site grows. We keep Google able to find and list every story, including in Google News.
Editor support
Your editors reach the same people every working day, and there’s a quick way to reach us when a big story breaks.
Where our part ends
Included
- Hosting, caching, security updates and backups
- Sanity upkeep, or a move from WordPress to Sanity
- Technical fixes, speed and search basics
- Moving your site to us, or to a new CMS, on a plan you approve
Not included
- Editorial content and publishing decisions
- Ad network and third-party script performance
- Cloud provider fees above the agreed plan, which you pay at cost on their own line of the quote
Related work
Newspapers we moved and look after. Client names and the live sites are listed in Our Work.
- Daily online newspaper
A daily online newspaper moved off WordPress onto a headless newsroom, publishing breaking news, interviews and investigations.
- Current-affairs news site
A current-affairs and business news site on the same newsroom platform, kept up through a 17× bot-traffic surge.
Questions publishers ask
Can you move our site without losing the archive?
Yes. We copy the site and database to the new hosting, check it with your editors and switch over at a quiet hour. Old article addresses keep working, and you keep your search rankings and shared links.
Will the site stay up when a story goes viral?
That is what we build it for. Readers get stored copies of each page from servers near them, and we size the hosting to your past traffic. No host can promise a site never goes down. We monitor it with automated alerts and respond in business hours, with a quick route for urgent problems.
Do you build news sites on WordPress?
No. We build newsrooms on Sanity, which suits teams that publish to several places and want a fast site. If you are on WordPress today, we move your articles across and point your old links at the new pages.
What does Publisher Hosting cost?
It depends on your traffic, your CMS and how much care the site needs. After a hosting review, you get a fixed price before we start, with cloud costs on their own line.
Get a hosting review before the next big story
Tell us your site address and traffic. We’ll look at how it is hosted today and send you our recommendation.
Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm. We reply within one business day.