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Publishing & News Media WordPress solutions

Hosting for frequent publishing, growing media libraries, and changing audience demand. We plan delivery and resources around your publication and its busiest stories.

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Publishing & News Media WordPress solutions

Managed WordPress hosting on the cloud you choose

Pick your provider; we operate and manage the infrastructure for your site.

Hosting for news sites

Your own WordPress server, tuned for readers who arrive at once and a newsroom that never stops.

  • Near your readers

    You pick the provider and region.

  • Sister titles too

    Other titles or a jobs board can share the server.

From €300/month From $300/month
Final scope and price agreed before work starts.

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The Harbour Ledger server on DigitalOcean in London: readers' requests for the home page, stories and section fronts are answered by the CDN and page cache, while twelve logged-in editors, scheduled posts and photo uploads go to PHP with an object cache; 8 vCPU, 16 GB memory, 320 GB NVMe and three sites on the server

When a story takes off

Cached pages carry the rush.

An evening at The Harbour Ledger: page views per minute climb from about 900 to 16,800 after a bridge closure story is shared at 19:15, while the share served from cache holds near 98 percent and server CPU peaks at 46 percent; at the peak, 270 of 16,800 page views reach WordPress, for site search, comments, logged-in editors and subscriber pages
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  • Served from cache

    Stories and fronts load from cache and the CDN, so new readers add little work.

  • Corrections show at once

    Publishing or updating a story refreshes its cached copies.

  • Room for the rest

    Search, comments and signed-in readers reach WordPress, so we size for them.

Built for the newsroom

Editors work where nothing is cached.

The Harbour Ledger newsroom on a Thursday evening: twelve editors online with a median draft save of 0.21 seconds, and tonight's scheduled stories, two published on time and one still scheduled, published by the server cron job, which runs every minute

Editors and scheduled posts

The editor stays quick with a dozen people in it.

  • Object cache and PHP workers for drafts and uploads
  • Scheduled stories published on the minute by the server
The Harbour Ledger media and caching: a media library of 186,400 files using 412 of 640 GB, with images served by the CDN, and the subscribe, account and log-in pages, plus stories for signed-in subscribers, never cached

Media and subscriber pages

Years of photos, and pages that differ for every reader.

  • Images reach readers through the CDN, not the server
  • Subscribe, account and paywalled pages skip the cache

Included on every server

One monthly price covers it all.

Set up and kept current

  • Server setupConfigured and hardened for WordPress.
  • Free migrationYou check the copy before it goes live.
  • UpdatesChecked before they reach your sites.
  • Backups and restoresAutomatic, with a restore when you ask.

Kept fast and safe

  • Performance tuningCaching, PHP, database and WP Raiser.
  • SecurityFirewall, SSL, malware checks and cleanup.
  • MonitoringUptime and resource alerts come to us first.
  • Written supportFrom the engineers who run your server.

How to get a server

A fixed monthly price, agreed first.

A server request conversation: the client asks for two WordPress sites with 120,000 visits a month in Europe, and the reply quotes a Hetzner server in Germany with 4 vCPU, 8 GB memory and 160 GB NVMe, migration, backups and updates included, billed monthly, accepted by replying

  1. Tell us about your site

    Send a server request with your traffic and current host. Clients can open a ticket.

  2. Get a written quote

    Within one business day: the server, what is included and the monthly price.

  3. Accept and add a card

    Reply to accept, then add a card in the portal. Billing is monthly.

  4. We set up and migrate

    We build the server, you check the copy, and we switch DNS and run it.

News hosting questions

What publishers ask before moving.

Do we stop publishing during the move?
Only briefly. We copy ahead, then sync the latest stories just before the switch.
Can you prepare for a busy night?
Yes. Tell us the date; we check the cache and resize if needed.
What if a story draws an attack?
Firewall rules block request floods, and a CDN stops most of it earlier.
Is a large archive a problem?
No. We tune the archive search and tag pages that slow down first.
Can we host video on the server?
Better not: a video service keeps popular clips off your server.
Can our developers still work on the site?
Yes: SFTP, SSH and a staging copy for testing changes.