For clubs, associations and community groups

WordPress hosting for
clubs

Sporting clubs, pétanque and bowls clubs, surf life saving, scouts, Men's Sheds, historical societies, P&Cs, car clubs, choirs. Usually run by volunteers, usually with a website somebody's nephew built in 2016, and usually paid for out of a modest budget that has better uses. It should cost almost nothing, and it should not need a volunteer with a sysadmin background.

What clubs actually need from a host

Not a feature list. The three things that decide whether your site helps you or embarrasses you.

Cheap enough that the committee stops arguing about it

Five dollars a month, no lock-in, cancel any time. That is less than most clubs currently pay for hosting they cannot log into, and it is a line item nobody has to defend at the AGM.

Survives the handover to the next committee

Club sites die when the one person who knew the logins moves on. Access here lives in a hosting dashboard, not in someone's head - hand over the account and the next secretary has everything, including backups and a working way in to WordPress.

No volunteer has to be the security person

We patch the servers, keep the login page closed to the public and take the backups. Your volunteers update the fixtures and post the photos from Saturday, which is the part they actually signed up for.

Everything a club site usually has to do

All of it runs on a $5 plan. WordPress plugins do the work; we keep the thing they run on fast, patched and backed up.

  • Fixtures, draws and results
  • Membership and registration forms
  • Committee contacts and constitution documents
  • Photo galleries from events and seasons
  • Sponsor logos and acknowledgements
  • A newsletter or news feed the whole club can read
Where your data lives

Your site and its member enquiries stay in Australian data centres. For a club holding member names and contact details, that is one less thing to explain at the next committee meeting.

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Single Site
$5 AUD/mo

For one small site - a brochure site, portfolio, blog or simple shop - in its own container. Add more sites to the same plan when you need them.

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Multisite
$10 AUD/mo

For up to 3 similar small sites run together - portfolios, blogs, or a club and its events site. Expandable to five.

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Need more than a small site?

Every site runs in its own container, and when yours needs more we build a custom one to fit - so you never pay for resources you don't use.

Running a bigger site?

A busy online store, a marketplace or a site with lots of people logging in needs more room - even when it's quiet. We'll build it a container to fit, from $5 a month extra.

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Looking after sites for clients?

Web developers and IT providers: run every client's site from one account, give each client their own login, and get containers sized to fit each one.

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Moving from another host? We'll do the migration for you, free - and set up Cloudflare too, if you want it. Tell us where your site is now.

FAQ

Clubs & Community Groups - questions we get asked

We are a volunteer committee. Is this too technical for us?

It is WordPress, so anyone who has used a word processor can update fixtures and post photos. The parts that genuinely are technical - servers, certificates, security patches, backups - are ours, not yours. No volunteer has to become the club's sysadmin.

What happens when the committee changes?

You hand over the hosting account and the new secretary has everything: the site, the backups and a working way into WordPress. That is the failure that kills most club websites, and it is entirely avoidable.

Can we get a discount as a not-for-profit?

It is five dollars a month. We would rather just charge everyone that than run a paperwork process to knock a couple of dollars off it.

What exactly do I get with a "container"?

Your own isolated Docker container running Nginx, PHP-FPM, and WordPress. It's not shared hosting where you're competing with hundreds of other sites for the same WordPress installation. Your container has its own filesystem, its own database user, its own SSL, and its own NVMe storage. You can reboot it, redeploy it, or destroy it from your dashboard without asking anyone.

Do you back up my site?

We offer an optional Daily Backups add-on that takes a daily off-site snapshot of your full WordPress site (files plus database), keeps 7 days of history, and lets you download or one-click restore from your dashboard. You can add it at any time from your dashboard - we never silently charge for it. We strongly recommend it for any production site.

We also recommend exporting your WordPress content periodically yourself (Tools → Export in WP-Admin) and keeping copies offsite. Pricing for the add-on is shown on our website and in your dashboard.

Will you move my existing site over for me?

Yes, and it doesn't cost anything - it's included on both plans, and there is no setup fee, no migration fee and no minimum term attached to it. Tell us where the site is now and give us access, and we'll bring the files and the database across, get it running on our servers, check it over, and only then tell you exactly when to change your DNS. Your existing site stays up and serving visitors the entire time, so there's no window where your site is offline while we work.

While we're in there we'll set Cloudflare up for you as well, if you want it - free CDN, caching and DDoS protection in front of your site. That's also included, and also something we just do rather than something you buy.

If you'd rather move it yourself, you can: the dashboard has import tools that take the common WordPress backup formats, including All-in-One WP Migration and Duplicator archives. Either way, the answer to "what does the move cost" is nothing.

Do you offer a free trial?

No free trial, but the cost to try it is $5. If it's not right for you within the first month, email us and we'll refund it - no questions asked.

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