For studios, artists and makers

WordPress hosting for
creatives

Recording studios, bands and musicians, photographers, illustrators, painters and sculptors, designers, film and video crews, ceramicists, jewellers, galleries. Your website is your portfolio, and a portfolio that loads slowly or crushes your images into mush is actively working against you. It needs to be fast, it needs to do your work justice, and it needs to be yours.

What creatives actually need from a host

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

Image-heavy portfolios without the wait

A gallery of full-resolution work is the heaviest thing most sites ever serve. NVMe storage and a container that is yours alone means those pages load quickly, and we keep the image processing from filling the disk - which is the usual way a photographer's site takes itself down.

Audio, video and big files

Studios and bands need somewhere to put mixes, showreels and press kits. Your storage is real storage, not a metered CDN allowance, and you can grow it. For very large video, embedding from a video host still makes sense, and we will tell you that rather than sell you space you do not need.

Your own site, not a rented profile

Platforms change their terms, their algorithm and their layout whenever they like. A WordPress site you host yourself is the one place online where your work appears exactly as you intended, on a domain you own, and it stays that way.

Everything a creative 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.

  • Full-bleed portfolio and gallery layouts
  • Embedded audio players, showreels and video
  • Press kits and downloadable high-res assets
  • Tour dates, exhibition listings or session availability
  • Print or merch sales through WooCommerce
  • A mailing list signup that you actually own
Where your data lives

Your work and your mailing list sit in Australian data centres on hardware we run, on a domain you own. Nothing here is a profile on someone else's platform that can be changed out from under you.

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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

Creatives - questions we get asked

Will my full-resolution images slow it down?

Large galleries are the heaviest thing most sites serve, so the answer is partly your theme and partly your host. Ours gives you NVMe storage and a container nobody else is using, and we keep the image processing from filling the disk - the usual way a photographer's site takes itself offline.

Can I host audio and video?

Audio, yes - mixes, demos and showreels sit fine in your own storage. For long-form video we will usually tell you to embed from a video host instead, because a browser streaming a 4K file off any web server is a poor experience. We would rather say that than sell you storage you do not need.

Can I sell prints or merch?

Yes, WooCommerce runs fine on both plans. You will want a payment provider like Stripe or PayPal, and your own container means checkout is not competing with anyone else's traffic.

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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