riftdesigns

HostingSet up and looked after by us

Hosting for the sites
we build.

Three plans, from a shared server for a one-page site to a whole machine of your own. We set it up and keep an eye on it. Pay monthly, or pay for a year and it costs less.

01  PlansPrices in USD

Three plans, one job each.

01 · 1 website

Shared hosting

$12/mo$120/yr

Paid yearly: save $24, two months free

Basic and Starter sites, brochure sites, portfolios.

Storage
10 GB SSD
Sites
1
Email
5 mailboxes
Backups
Daily, kept 14 days
Support
Email, next business day
  • Free SSL certificate
  • Daily backups
  • Uptime monitoring
  • We handle the set-up and moving your site
Choose Shared →

03 · As many as it can take

Dedicated server

$189/mo$1,890/yr

Paid yearly: save $378, two months free

Web apps, high-traffic stores and sites that need headroom at peak times.

CPU
8 cores
Memory
64 GB RAM
Storage
2 × 1 TB NVMe, mirrored
Sites
No limit
Backups
Every 6 hours, kept 30 days
Support
Phone and email, priority
  • A whole server that is only yours
  • Private firewall rules
  • Free SSL certificates for every site
  • Set-up and migration included
  • Monitoring with a person on call
Choose Dedicated →

02  The differenceIn plain English

Shared vs VPS
vs dedicated.

All three put your site on the internet. What changes is how much of the machine is yours.

Shared

A room in a busy building

Your site sits on a server alongside other sites, and they share its processor and memory. It's the lowest-cost way to be online and plenty for a site with steady, modest traffic. The trade-off is that a very busy neighbor can slow things for a moment.

GOOD FOR: BASIC AND STARTER SITES, BROCHURE SITES, PORTFOLIOS.

VPS

Your own apartment

A virtual private server is a slice of a larger machine with its own resources set aside for you (2 vCPU and 4 GB RAM on our plan). Other sites' traffic doesn't eat into it, and there's room for a staging copy to try changes before they go live.

GOOD FOR: BUSY BUSINESS SITES, STORES AND SITES WITH BOOKINGS.

Dedicated

The whole building

A physical server that runs only your sites (8 cores and 64 GB RAM on our plan). The most power and control, and the highest cost. It earns its keep when the site is the business: a web app, a busy store, anything that has to stay quick at its busiest hour.

GOOD FOR: WEB APPS, HIGH-TRAFFIC STORES AND SITES THAT NEED HEADROOM AT PEAK TIMES.
Fig. 02 · Which hosting do I need?Three questions
How we decide
Which hosting plan fits which site
If your siteYou need
Is one information site, under 10,000 visits a month (most small businesses)Shared hosting
Sells online, takes bookings, runs two to five sites, or gets 10,000 to 100,000 visits a monthVPS hosting
Is a web app with logins, runs more than five sites, or gets over 100,000 visits a monthDedicated server

Not sure about your traffic? Start on Shared hosting. Moving up later is quick, and we handle it.

04  Every planWhat doesn't change

Included with every plan.

Automatic backups

Every plan is backed up without you doing anything.

Shared
Daily, kept 14 days
VPS
Daily, kept 30 days
Dedicated
Every 6 hours, kept 30 days

SSL certificate

The padlock in the address bar, set up and renewed for you.

Uptime monitoring

We get an alert when the site stops responding.

Set-up and migration

We set up the plan and move your existing site across.

A person to ask

Questions go to the people who look after your site.

Shared
Email, next business day
VPS
Same business day
Dedicated
Phone and email, priority

05  Questions

About hosting.

Ask something else →
01Can you move my existing site?

Yes, it's included on every plan. Tell us where the site is hosted now and we'll plan the move with you.

02What happens if my traffic grows?

You move up a plan, from Shared hosting to VPS hosting to Dedicated server. Each step gives the site more of the machine to itself. Tell us when things are getting busy and we'll plan the switch with you, at a quiet time of day.

03Can I use my own domain?

Yes. The domain stays registered in your name. Point it at your plan yourself, or give us access and we'll set up the records. If you don't have one yet, we can register it for you, in your name.

Start hereReply within one working day

Pick a plan, we do the rest.

Choose a plan and tell us where the site lives now. We'll send the set-up details and a start date.