Website Hosting & Security

Hosting is the service that keeps your website files on a powered, connected, secured server so the world can reach them 24/7. Every website on the internet is hosted somewhere; the difference between hosts is speed, security and who answers when something breaks.

We are server engineers, not resellers reading scripts. The same Wisconsin family team that designs and builds your website configures, monitors and maintains the server it lives on, and has for 27 years. One provider, one phone number, total accountability.

It means we do the technical work: software updates, security patches, malware scanning, firewall management, SSL certificates, daily backups and monitoring. You run your business; the server is our job. Every FVWD plan is fully managed.

Yes. We regularly take over hosting and maintenance for websites built elsewhere, starting with a health and security audit so you know exactly what you have. Many of those sites eventually become redesign clients, but hosting comes first.

Not hard at all, because we do it for you. Our team migrates your files, databases, email and DNS, verifies everything on a staging copy, then cuts over cleanly, targeting zero downtime. You will not lift a finger.

Done correctly, no. We preserve your URLs, set up redirects where needed, keep the site online during the move and often improve rankings afterward, because faster, more reliable hosting is a ranking factor.

Our infrastructure is built on enterprise data centers with redundant power and network backed by 99.9% and better SLAs. Practically, our monitored client sites stay online around the clock, and monitoring alerts our engineers the moment anything looks off.

On enterprise grade, SOC audited data center infrastructure in the United States, managed by our team in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Your data stays on American soil with a Wisconsin phone number attached to it.

Managed updates, security hardening, web application firewall, DDoS protection, daily malware scans, free SSL certificate, daily backups, performance caching, monitoring and direct support from our team. Premium plugin licenses for our standard professional stack are bundled in too.

SSL encrypts the connection between your visitors and your site and enables the https padlock. It is required for trust, forms, payments and rankings, and it is included free on every FVWD hosting plan.

Automatic daily backups stored securely offsite, with retention up to 30 days depending on plan. If anything ever goes wrong, from a bad update to human error, we restore your site. You never have to remember to back anything up.

A staging site is a private copy of your website where updates and changes are tested before going live. Our managed WordPress plans include staging with visual comparison, so updates are previewed instead of gambled.

That is the core of the job. Layered security includes a web application firewall, DDoS protection, brute force login defense, daily malware scanning, virtual patching of known vulnerabilities and timely updates. Security research shows most WordPress breaches come from outdated plugins, which is exactly what managed hosting prevents.

A DDoS attack floods a website with junk traffic to knock it offline. Our infrastructure absorbs attack traffic upstream through enterprise DDoS protection, so legitimate customers get through while the junk gets dropped.

Yes. For medical practices and other covered entities we configure HIPAA ready hosting and HIPAA compliant email with encryption, access controls and the required Business Associate Agreement. Call 920-434-9772 to discuss your compliance needs.

WordPress hosting is an environment tuned specifically for WordPress: server level caching, PHP and database settings optimized for it, automatic core updates and WordPress fluent support. Since 99% of our clients run WordPress, our whole platform is built around it.

Absolutely, and store hosting is a specialty. WooCommerce needs stronger database performance and caching that respects carts and checkouts, which generic hosts get wrong. Our ecommerce plans keep checkout fast even during your biggest sale.

Usually dramatically. Slow sites typically suffer from overloaded shared servers, no caching and bloated setups. We routinely cut load times in half or better after migration through server side caching, image optimization and tuned configurations.

A VPS is a virtual private server: your own isolated slice of a machine with guaranteed resources. It suits growing sites and applications that have outgrown standard plans. We will tell you honestly if you need one, and most small business sites do not.

An entire physical server reserved for your business alone: maximum power, security and control. Our own client fleet runs on managed dedicated hardware, and we configure dedicated machines for clients with high traffic or special requirements.

Yes. We host portfolios of sites for agencies, franchises and multi location organizations, with centralized management, per site staging and one accountable team. Ask about multi site arrangements.

Senior engineering beyond the server: expert WordPress development, performance rescues, hacked site cleanups, security audits and white glove migrations. When a project needs a specialist instead of a support ticket, you already have one on file.

We offer professional Microsoft 365 email packages on your domain, from web app essentials to the full desktop Office suite with Teams, OneDrive and advanced security. Packages and pricing are one call away: 920-434-9772.

Three: Secure Online Essentials (web apps, Teams, 50 GB mail, advanced security), Secure Business Professional (adds full desktop Office on 5 devices and HIPAA capable email), and Secure Premium Bundle (adds Email Archiving for compliance). All include a 99.9% Microsoft backed uptime, 1 TB OneDrive and mobile apps. Call for pricing.

An add on layer that proactively blocks spam, malware and phishing, flags suspicious senders with AI driven warning banners before you click, and provides on demand email encryption. With roughly 90% of online threats arriving by email, it is the best insurance a business inbox can buy. Call for pricing.

Archiving stores every sent and received message in a secure, searchable database that cannot be quietly deleted. Industries with retention rules (healthcare, finance, legal, government contractors) need it for compliance, and plenty of other businesses want it for dispute protection.

Three DNS records that prove email claiming to be from your domain really is. Without them your messages drift into spam folders and scammers can impersonate your business. We configure all three correctly on every email setup, including the deliverability records your website forms and store receipts depend on.

Yes, and we always register it in your name with your ownership, never ours. We manage the DNS, renewals and records so your domain, hosting, email and website all point where they should. Losing a domain to a lapsed renewal is a tragedy we simply do not allow.

Not at all. We can manage its DNS where it sits or help you transfer it, whichever you prefer. What matters is that the records are configured correctly and the renewal never lapses.

DNS is the internet's phone book, pointing your domain at your website and mail servers. Typos, stale records and misconfigured changes cause mystery outages and vanishing email. We manage DNS for our clients so those mysteries stay solved.

Monitoring catches it before you do, alerts our engineers, and in most cases the issue is resolved before morning coffee. That is the practical difference between managed hosting and a support queue.

Around the clock. Uptime checks, resource monitoring, security event alerts and daily scans run continuously on every managed account, because finding problems before customers do is the whole point.

Our target is sub second server response and passing Google's Core Web Vitals, using server side caching, object caching, tuned PHP and databases, and image optimization. Barely half the websites on the internet pass those metrics; ours are built and hosted to.

Directly. Speed and Core Web Vitals influence rankings, downtime costs crawl trust, HTTPS is required, and server location plus reliability shape user signals. Great hosting will not rank a bad site, but bad hosting quietly handicaps a great one.

Caching stores ready made copies of your pages so the server answers instantly instead of rebuilding every visit. It is one of the biggest speed levers on WordPress, and we configure it at the server level where it works best.

That is what headroom is for. Whether a TV mention, a viral post or a holiday sale, our plans carry capacity margins, and if you are outgrowing a tier we move you up smoothly. Big traffic is a good problem we are happy to have.

Our hosting is part of the Website + Care Plan relationship: predictable monthly service, no games, and clients who stay because the service is good, not because a contract traps them. Call for current plan details: 920-434-9772.

It depends on the site, the traffic and the services attached, which is why we quote hosting personally instead of hiding fees behind a teaser price. What we promise: honest numbers, no surprise renewals at triple the rate, and more included than any budget host. Call 920-434-9772.

Because ours includes engineers. Budget hosts oversell shared servers, automate away support and charge extra for the security and backups we include standard. When your website is how customers find and judge your business, the cheapest foundation is the most expensive mistake.

cPanel is a hosting control panel for managing files, email and databases. Managed clients rarely need it because we handle those tasks, but appropriate access is available. Most owners find they never want to see a control panel again, which is exactly the idea.

Yes, it is one of our Signature Services. We isolate the site, remove malicious code, patch the vulnerability that let it happen, restore clean content from backups, and then move it onto hardened hosting so it does not happen twice.

Fully. Microsoft 365 email syncs mail, contacts and calendars across desktop, web, iPhone and Android instantly, and the mobile Office apps are included. Change something on one device and it is changed everywhere.

Yes. We migrate existing mail, contacts and calendars into Microsoft 365 so history comes along and nothing is lost. Email migrations are careful, boring work, which is why people hand them to us.

Each Microsoft 365 user gets 1 TB of secure cloud storage: files, photos and documents saved, synced and shareable from any device. It quietly replaces the aging office file server and the please-find-attached shuffle.

Teams is Microsoft's meeting, chat and collaboration hub, included in all our email packages. If your business ever does a video call, shares a file or coordinates a group, you will use it more than you expect.

Safer than on the laptop that could be stolen or the hard drive that will fail. Microsoft 365 data lives in secured, redundant data centers with encryption in transit and at rest, and our hosting backups follow the same discipline.

Monitoring and security run 24/7/365 automatically, and our engineers respond to critical issues around the clock. For everything else you get a Green Bay phone number answered by people who know your site by name: 920-434-9772.

Because at some point every business needs to talk to a human who can actually fix the thing. Local means same time zone, same accountability, and a team you can look in the eye at a chamber event. We have hosted Wisconsin businesses since 1997, and we are not going anywhere.

Yes, all three are specialties: manufacturing sites with big catalogs and spec libraries, HIPAA ready configurations for medical practices, and accessible, reliable hosting for municipalities facing the new ADA website deadlines.

Request a quote through our website or call 920-434-9772. We will review your current hosting, spell out exactly what we would improve, and handle the entire migration when you say go. Most clients wish they had switched years earlier.