Hosting for busy websites and apps, from WordPress publishers and forums to web apps with a lot of signed-in users. We tune the caching, the database and the server to how your traffic arrives, and the busiest sites get a plan sized to them.
Yes. Plenty of large publishers run on WordPress. What breaks under load is rarely WordPress itself. It's usually pages that aren't cached, a slow database, plugins doing work on every request and hosting with no room for a spike.
Look for a host that caches most of your pages at the edge and has enough server behind the pages that can't be cached, like logins, search and checkout. Ask how many uncached requests your site can handle at once, and whether a spike gets you throttled or billed extra. At Hosterr there's no charge for bandwidth or visits, you email the developer who looks after your site, and a very busy site goes on a custom plan with a server sized to its traffic.
Page and object caching tuned to how your traffic arrives, a database that's been reviewed and cleaned up, and a server with room for your busiest hour. Cloudflare's edge cache in front helps a lot, and we'll set it up if you want it. We also get an alert when the server starts to struggle.
Yes. We host web apps built on Laravel, Node.js, Next.js and other stacks, and the work is the same: cache what can be cached, give the rest real server capacity and keep an eye on the database. Busy apps go on a custom plan with a server sized to them, and Ryan looks at how the app is built before we quote.
Cached pages carry most of the spike, and with Cloudflare in front, most of it never reaches the server. Logins, search and other pages that can't be cached need real server capacity, and we get an alert when the server starts to struggle, so we can step in before it turns into an outage.
They should. A slow admin during busy periods usually comes from the same database and plugin weight that slows visitors down, so we work on both and measure the admin as well as the public site.
It depends on how much of the traffic can be cached. A site with mostly anonymous readers can carry a lot once the caching is right, and simpler sites fit the standard plans. Steady heavy traffic that can't be cached, like a large store or a busy membership site, needs more server and more attention, so it goes on a custom plan sized to it, with a dedicated server if it needs one. Send us your traffic numbers and we'll tell you which plan fits. The migration is free either way.
A note from Ryan
Running busy sites and apps
A site that gets some traffic and a publication or an app that lives on its traffic are different jobs. Those need the caching, the database and the server planned around how people use them, and a host's default settings rarely cover that. I look at how your traffic arrives first and set the server up around it.
Tell us what you're running and what's getting in the way. We'll write back the same day with a plan, and if Hosterr isn't the right fit, we'll say so.
