Managed Hosting
Let our team take care of the technical side of your hosting. Managed hosting gives your business a reliable, secure and supported hosting environment while we help keep your website running smoothly.
Managed hosting for your business
Hosting shouldn't become another technical task for your team to manage. With managed hosting, the infrastructure and ongoing technical requirements are handled by an experienced team, so you can focus on your business.
Through DirectCloud, we provide managed hosting solutions with performance-focused infrastructure, backups, security features, automatic updates and technical support. For WordPress websites, our managed WordPress environment is specifically configured around the needs of the platform.
What's included?
Managed updates
Daily backups
Your website is backed up daily, with backups available to access, download and restore when required.
Security protection
Help protect your website with security features including a Web Application Firewall, malware scanning and protection, and standard DDoS protection.
Performance optimisation
Hosting infrastructure is designed around website performance, with technologies such as LiteSpeed, LSCache, MariaDB, HTTP/2, PHP and CDN support.
Technical support
Get assistance from a technical team with your hosting, website, mailbox and related technical requirements.
Website migration
Move your existing website to the new hosting environment with free migration available on eligible hosting plans.
Managed WordPress hosting
DirectCloud's managed WordPress hosting is designed specifically around the requirements of WordPress, combining automatic updates, performance optimisation, security and technical support.
Automatic WordPress updates:WordPress core, themes and plugins can be kept updated automatically.
Staging environment: Test updates and website changes in a staging environment before publishing them to your live website.
WordPress-optimised servers: Managed WordPress hosting also supports WooCommerce websites, making it suitable for businesses running online stores.
WooCommerce support: Managed WordPress hosting also supports WooCommerce websites, making it suitable for businesses running online stores.
Who is managed hosting for?
Built for performance, security and control.
Businesses without an in-house IT team
Busy business owners
Spend less time dealing with updates, backups and hosting administration.
Growing websites
Use a managed environment that can support your website as its requirements develop.
WordPress businesses
Keep WordPress updated, backed up, secure and supported through a managed hosting environment.
More than just hosting
One of the biggest advantages of working with Lightbox Digital is that hosting doesn't exist in isolation. We understand the website running on the server as well as the hosting environment itself.
Managed hosting
Your hosting environment is managed through DirectCloud.
Website maintenance
We can keep your website updated, secure and functioning properly.
Website development
Our developers can handle technical changes, integrations and custom functionality.
SEO
We can continue optimising your website after launch to improve its organic visibility.
One point of contact
Manage hosting, website development, maintenance and other digital services through one group.
Less technical admin
Let our team handle more of the ongoing technical requirements behind your hosting.
Let us take care of your hosting
Spend less time managing the technical side of your website and more time focusing on your business.
