Website hosting and management

We have over 20 years of combined experience in managing websites, so you can be confident your website is in safe hands.

1. Why host my website with Rifle
2. About our platforms
3. What we mean by “fully managed”
4. Key features
5. Update management and securty

1. Why host my website with Rifle

Well. It’s needs to be hosted somewhere and we are a safe pair of hands.

There are countless hosting providers available but the chances are that they will not manage your website and take responsibility for it. When we host your website we take ownership of it make sure that you don’t need to get involved in an area you’re not familliar with.

We rarely offer clients purely a hosting service and in reality we don’t want to just host websites. We thrive on working together with businesses to continually evolve and improve their web presence. Ongoing updates and maintenance are so much more efficiently managed when we have full control of projects on our own servers. Otherwise the alternative or working with multiple third party providers, securing access and publishing changes becomes more drawn-out.

We also have peace of mind that your website is running on a dedicated platform that’s optimised for performance and security.

2. About our platforms

We operate a combination of different cloud platforms which means we can select the right environment for your project.

Each environment is scalable so will grow as your website does or as demand requires, which means less down-time and more web content delivered at speed to your users.

As our services are all cloud based we do not depend on or manage any of our own hardware to host your website. Everything is safe and secure, so you can relax.

Each website we host is optimised with a caching service to make sure pages are delivered instantly without needing to make multiple database requests for the same content. We also host your websites static assets on a CDN (Content Delivery Network) for high availability and speed. These efficiencies allow our servers to run quicker with less than 0.01% downtime.

5. Update management and securty

With the majority of websites being driven by Content Management Systems or frameworks it is important that the underlying software is kept up to date. It’s an unfortunate aspect of the internet that older versions of software can become vulnerable to security issues, not to mention lacking in improved performance or features introduced in up to date versions.

We make sure your website is kept secure and up to date by scheduling quarterly maintenance reviews where we will check for any issues, backup integrity or security breaches. We will run required updates before finally checking everything is working as expected.

This process ensures your website never becomes vulnerable or significantly out of date. We will always flag any issues we uncover and on occasion there may be further maintenance or development work required to ensure compatibility with site functionality and updated software.