Web hosting with a real person behind it.
Managed hosting for Wisconsin small businesses. We watch your site, keep it patched, back it up, and answer the phone when something breaks. One local contact for your website, start to finish.
Most small business sites are hosted and forgotten.
Someone set up the site years ago, picked a cheap host, and moved on. It works until it doesn't. Here's what we see when a Wisconsin business calls us about their website.
Nobody is watching it
The site goes down on a Friday night and nobody finds out until a customer mentions it on Tuesday.
Updates never happen
Plugins and themes sit years out of date. That's how most small business sites get hacked.
Support is a chat window
National hosts route you through tier 1 scripts. They don't know your site and they won't fix it.
Nobody knows who has the keys
The domain is in a former employee's account, the host login is lost, and the web designer stopped answering.
What managed actually means.
Server space is the cheap part. What you're paying for is someone taking responsibility for the site staying up, staying secure, and staying current.
National host vs. local managed hosting.
Cheap hosting is cheap because you do the work. Here's how the common options stack up for a small business that doesn't want to babysit a website.
Budget shared host
- Cheapest monthly cost
- You handle updates
- You handle backups
- Nobody watching uptime
- Renewal price jumps
- Support is a chat queue
Wix / Squarespace
- Hosting handled for you
- Edit it yourself
- Okay performance
- Locked into the platform
- Limited SEO control
- Nobody to call
BadgerLayer
- Uptime watched every minute
- Updates and backups done for you
- Fast, modern hosting
- You own the domain and code
- Content changes on request
- Local Wisconsin support
Hosting plans, real numbers.
No "call for pricing." Final price is confirmed after we look at your site, but these are the numbers you should expect.
- Fast, modern hosting
- SSL set up and auto-renewed
- Uptime monitoring every minute
- Monthly backups, 12-month history
- DNS management
- Email support
- Everything in Basic Hosting
- Monthly security and software updates
- Up to 1 hour of content changes/month
- Phone and email support
- Emergency response included
- No minimum term after year one
- Custom design and build
- Hosting set up at launch
- Schema markup and SEO basics
- Optional CMS for self-editing
- Up to 2 hours of changes/month after launch
- 90-day post-launch support
Site needs more than new hosting?
If your current site is slow, dated, or built on a platform you've outgrown, moving it to better hosting only goes so far. We design and build custom sites for Wisconsin small businesses, then host and maintain them after launch.
One relationship covers the design, the build, the hosting, and every change after that.
Built for Wisconsin small business.
Most of our hosting clients are local businesses that need their website to just work, with someone they can call when it doesn't.
Insurance agencies
Fast, reliable sites that rank locally and stay up during renewal season.
Law firms
A professional presence without agency rates or managing WordPress yourself.
Contractors and trades
Remodelers, electricians, and landscapers who need to show up in local search.
Medical and dental
Mobile-fast sites for patients searching from their phones, managed by the same team as your IT.
Nonprofits
Reliable hosting and a real person to call, at a price that fits the budget.
Restaurants and retail
Menus, hours, and location that are always right, because the site is the first impression.
Hosting clients across Wisconsin.
Based in Whitewater and serving businesses statewide, with most clients in Southern Wisconsin and the Milwaukee and Madison metros. Hosting support is remote, so location doesn't limit us.
- Whitewater, WI
- Madison, WI
- Milwaukee, WI
- Janesville, WI
- Waukesha, WI
- Watertown, WI
- Fort Atkinson, WI
- Jefferson, WI
- Elkhorn, WI
- Beloit, WI
- Oconomowoc, WI
- Lake Geneva, WI
Hosting questions.
What Wisconsin business owners ask before switching hosts. If yours isn't here, ask on the call.
Get a hosting quote →How much does web hosting cost for a small business in Wisconsin?
What is the difference between managed hosting and regular hosting?
Can you host a website you didn't build?
Will moving hosts hurt my Google rankings?
What happens if my site goes down?
Do I own my domain and my site?
Do you host email too?
Ready to switch hosts?
Free review of your current site and hosting. We'll tell you what a move involves, which plan fits, and send a written quote. No forms, no pitch deck.