Website, hosting, mail, domain

Send us the folder. We do the rest.

Hosting, the new kind: everything handled, all at once, by one team. No DNS, no mail records, no WordPress on your desk. One fee. One page a month saying what we did.

  • Domain
  • Email
  • Hosting
  • The stack
  • Marketing
  • The site
  • Forms and payments
  • Being found
  • Legal pages
  • Not getting hacked
  • Keeping it alive
  • Closing it down

All twelve, handled.

Thanks, it’s on its way.

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How it works

Twelve jobs before a website exists. All handled.

  1. The domainNameservers, a certificate, a renewal you forget. handled
  2. Email on the domainProving you own it, plus three records nobody sets. handled
  3. HostingForty hosts to pick from, caching, a staging copy. handled
  4. The theme and the stackA theme, a builder, ten plugins that fight. handled
  5. The marketing bitsFive tools, five bills, five ways to break the page. handled
  6. The site itselfTwo weeks of your own, or a freelancer and a brief. handled
  7. Forms, bookings, paymentsWired, tested, not landing in spam. handled
  8. Being foundAnalytics, Search Console, a share card that works. handled
  9. The legal pagesPrivacy, terms, the cookie line. handled
  10. Not getting hackedThe plugin you forgot. A week offline. handled
  11. Keeping it aliveBackups you have tested, updates, someone who notices. handled
  12. Closing it downExport, archive, cancel, keep the domain alive. handled

Add it up: about two working weeks before the site exists, then a Tuesday a month for as long as it runs, across fifteen accounts.

With us: handled, all twelve, and one page a month that says so.

Pricing

Three ways to get it done.

  • On your own

    100 hours, then 4 hours and about $180 a month.

    Two working weeks before the site exists. Then a monthly chore with no one on call.

  • Hire an agency

    $8,000 to $15,000, then $350 to $500 a month, and an exit.

    The quote carries the years they will not get. Email, domain and the shutdown are not in scope.

  • KeepKraft Handoff

    $2,500 to open, $549 a month to run, $0 to close.

    Drop the logo, the photos, the words, the names who need email. We do the rest.

    Send us the folder

The receipt

Proof it got done, every month.

The backup, the domain, the mail and each change you sent, on one page.

KeepKraftOctober

A day, in 48 half hours

One outage, answered in 4 min

Backup
Daily, a restore tried
Domain
Renews on a card that does not expire
Mail
Anti-forgery records set
  • Oct 3You sent: New team photo. We posted it.
  • Oct 11You sent: Holiday hours. We posted it.
  • Oct 22You sent: New price list. We posted it.
An example month, in the product’s own page.

Already running

Real businesses that run this way.

Answers

Straight answers to the usual questions.

How much does it cost to set up business email on my own domain?

On your own, plan on about five hours: sign up for Workspace or the like, prove you own the domain, set the mail records and the three anti-forgery records most setups skip, then make each person’s box. After that it runs about $8 a person a month. With KeepKraft, the mail is set up and run inside the monthly fee.

What happens to my website when I stop paying my web designer?

That depends on whose accounts the site, the domain and the licences sit in. If they are the designer’s, the site can go dark and the mail on the domain can go with it. With an agency, the handover at the end is often a zip file. The plan includes the close: everything exported and archived, and the domain and the mail kept from dying with it.

How do I know if my WordPress site has been hacked?

The usual signs are pages or links you did not add, visitors sent somewhere else, a warning in search results, or a note from your host. The usual ways in are a plugin nobody updated, a login with no second step, and a form that lets spam through. A cleanup is about $500 and a week offline. We update the site every month and watch it, so somebody notices first.

Who owns my domain if my agency bought it?

Whoever is listed as the registrant, and when an agency buys it, that is often the agency. Ask for it to move into an account you control before the work ends. When a KeepKraft project closes, the domain is kept from dying with it.

Do I need a web designer or a web developer for a small business site?

A small site needs both jobs done: the layout, the words and the photos, and the wiring under them, from hosting to forms. Hiring them separately means writing a brief and running two people. KeepKraft covers both, plus the hosting, the mail and the domain.

What does website hosting cost for a small business?

Hosting runs about $30 a month, plus about four hours to choose a host, open the account, install it and set up caching, a CDN and a staging copy. Theme and plugin licences add about $45 a month. With Handoff, hosting sits inside the $549 a month.

What is included in a website maintenance plan?

It depends who sells it, so read the list. Handoff includes backups with a restore someone has actually tried, updates every month, somebody who notices when it goes down, the domain and the mail, changes when you send something, and one page a month that shows the work.

How long does it take to build a small business website?

On your own, the site itself is about 50 hours, and everything around it brings the total to about 100 hours before launch: two working weeks, most of it finding out what the next step is. With Handoff, you send the folder and the hours are ours.

Can you take over a website someone else built?

Yes. Send what you have: the logins, the domain, the names who need email and what you want changed. We host it, run the mail, watch it and change it when you send something.

What happens to the website when the project ends?

We close it down cleanly: export everything, archive it, cancel each service, and keep the domain and the mail from dying with it. With Handoff, closing costs $0.

Do you work with agencies and marketing teams?

Yes. Tell us about the sites you look after on the contact page.

What do I need to send you to get started?

The folder: the logo, the photos, the words you have, and the names who need email. Send it with the intake form, or ask for a 15-minute call first.

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