Hosting is the least glamorous thing we sell and the one that quietly causes the most trouble when it is wrong. So here is the plain version.
Managed hosting for a small business means somebody else does the server work: the software updates, the security patching, the backups, the caching that makes pages fast, and the monitoring that notices when something breaks. Unmanaged or basic shared hosting means you rent the space and everything else is your problem — which is fine right up until it isn't, because most small businesses do not know the work exists until it has been skipped for two years.
The difference is not really technical. It is who is responsible when something goes wrong at 11pm on a Saturday.
Fair question, and worth being precise about, because we use the word loosely in the office and that is not helpful to anyone.
Furiosa is the name of our fastest plan — not the whole hosting service. There are three:
| Plan | Per month | Built for |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud Core | $79 | Small business sites that want speed without extras |
| Cloud Core Skybreaker | $99 | E-commerce and higher-traffic sites |
| Furiosa | $149 | High-traffic and complex sites |
Skybreaker is the one most businesses land on. Furiosa is the top of the range — highest memory limits, highest CPU allocation, highest priority processing, 50GB of NVMe storage and unlimited email accounts. It is genuinely the fastest thing we run, and most small businesses do not need it. We would rather tell you that than sell it to you.
Every plan, including the $79 one, sits on the same foundations:
Storage and priority go up as you move through the tiers; the fundamentals do not change. Nobody gets the cut-price foundation.
Tell the chat roughly what your site does and how much traffic it gets — it'll point you at the right plan, including telling you if the cheapest one is plenty.
This is the behind-the-scenes bit, and it is the actual reason the plans exist.
We used to send clients off to whichever host they fancied. When something went wrong — a site down, a page crawling, an SSL certificate quietly expiring — we would spend a morning on hold on someone's behalf, get told the problem was on our side, and have no way to check. The client did not care whose fault it was. They just knew their website was broken and the person they trusted could not fix it.
So we stopped doing that. Running our own stack means when you email us about a slow page, we can actually look, rather than filing a ticket with a company that has no idea who you are. The point of FURIOSA is not the specs. It is that there is no finger to point.
When you genuinely don't need this. If your site is a handful of pages, gets modest traffic, sells nothing, and going down for a few hours would be annoying rather than expensive — cheap shared hosting is fine and you should keep your money. Managed hosting starts paying for itself the moment the website is part of how you get work, not before.
No — and it is worth being fair here, because "your host is ripping you off" is an easy sales line and usually an unfair one.
Budget shared hosting from the big providers is a reasonable product at a reasonable price. The catch is structural rather than dishonest: your site sits on a machine with hundreds of others, and you inherit the performance of the busiest one. That is why a site can be quick at 7am and sluggish at 2pm without you changing anything, and it is one of the most common reasons behind a website that feels slow for no obvious reason.
The other catch is that nobody is watching your site specifically. Backups may exist, but have they been tested? Updates may run, but did one break your contact form last Tuesday? On a budget plan, the honest answer is that nobody knows until you notice.
Ours start at $79/month, which is more than the $5-a-month plans and less than most people expect for real infrastructure with a human attached. Whoever you use, the number worth calculating is not the monthly fee — it is what a day of downtime costs you, multiplied by how likely that is.
For a business whose phone rings because the website was found, that sum usually answers itself. For a business whose customers all arrive by word of mouth, it may well not, and we will say so.
If you want the full specification rather than the summary, the hosting and care page lists every tier feature by feature, and the chat will give you a straight recommendation in about two minutes.
— written at the workbench, Cumberland RI ✦Managed hosting means the provider handles the server work — updates, security patching, backups, caching and monitoring — instead of leaving it to you. With unmanaged or basic shared hosting you rent the space and everything else is your problem, whether you realise it or not.
For a low-traffic brochure site, cheap shared hosting is genuinely fine. It becomes a liability once the site actually earns you money, because you inherit the performance of every other site on that machine and nobody is watching yours specifically.
Budget shared hosting runs a few dollars a month. Properly managed hosting for a small business site typically starts around $79 a month. If your website brings in work, the difference is usually the cheapest insurance you buy all year.
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