Domains & hosting

You do. We'll hold it in an account in your business's name — being locked out of your own domain by a former supplier is a genuinely nasty problem and it should never happen.

Domains run a year at a time. Depending on the ending, you can pay for up to ten years in one go — and for the name your business actually trades under, that is usually worth doing. It takes the renewal off the list of things that can quietly go wrong while nobody is watching.

Usually. It needs cooperation from whoever currently holds it, and occasionally that's the difficult part, but it's a well-worn path.

We host and support them, and through EzyNomNom we provide sites for hospitality venues. For anything bespoke we'll be upfront about whether we're the right people.

It depends on the site and what needs to sit around it, so we quote rather than publish a table. What we will not do is give you a number that turns out to exclude the things that actually matter — the mailboxes, the protection in front of it, the snapshots. Tell us what you are running and we will price the whole arrangement. You can pay monthly or yearly, there is no commitment on the monthly option, and paying yearly costs less.

Quickly, because we run the DNS ourselves rather than raising it with whoever holds the domain. The change is ours to make. After that it is only a question of how long the old record was cached for — not of anyone's queue.

It sits in front of the site, so visitors reach Cloudflare rather than your server directly. That hides your server, absorbs bursts of traffic, and filters a lot of automated nuisance before it arrives. For most business sites it also makes pages load faster for people further away.

Very often, yes. SPF, DKIM and DMARC are DNS records that tell the receiving mail server which systems are allowed to send as your domain. If they are missing or wrong — which is common after a mail migration — legitimate mail gets treated as suspicious. It is usually a quick thing to check and worth checking.

That is the normal starting point, and it is exactly the arrangement that becomes painful the day two of them need to agree. We can take over as much of it as you want, in whatever order causes the least disruption — usually DNS first, since that is what everything else depends on.