Most hosts, when a new site arrives, point it at a faster server and call it managed. We don’t flip a switch — we adopt your site. Every site that joins gets the same full onboarding: we move it, harden it, fix what’s been neglected, speed it up, and put a real safety net under it. All of it is done for you, all of it is included in your plan, and most of it happens before you’re ever asked to think about a single setting.
This isn’t an add-on or a premium tier. It’s just what joining looks like — and it means the upkeep stops being your job, or your staff’s. The work most owners do late at night, or pay someone to handle, is work we take over the moment your site becomes ours. Here, step by step, is what we do the week your site becomes ours to care for.
First, we move you — for free
Migration is on us, and it’s built so your visitors never see a flicker. It goes in four steps. One: you start your move now. You sign up and tell us how to get into your current site, which takes about two minutes. Two: we copy your site while your current one keeps serving your customers. Three: we clean it, tune it and test the copy privately. Four: we switch over only when the copy is checked — then we keep your old host running for about a week as a safety margin. Your move starts as soon as you sign up. No downtime and no lost orders. If you want the full mechanics, we wrote them up in how a zero-downtime migration actually works.
Animation of your move in four steps. One, you sign up. Two, we make a full copy of your site at SolutionHippo while your current site keeps serving your customers. Three, we clean the copy and test it privately. Four, we switch over, and your old host is kept about a week as a safety margin. Yuki, Horatio and Sergey from our crew arrive one by one as the work is done.
- Step 1. Your move starts as soon as you sign up.
- Step 2. We make a full copy while your current site keeps serving customers.
- Step 3. We clean the copy and test it privately.
- Step 4. We only switch over once the copy is verified.
- No downtime. Migration is on us.
We harden it against attack
A neglected site is a target, and the attacks are constant and automated. So before anything else, we close the doors. That means layers working together:
- A layered firewall plus a constantly updated list of known attackers, filtering malicious traffic before it ever reaches your site.
- Breached-password login defense, so a password that’s already turned up in a known data breach can’t be used to log in.
- Closing the tricks attackers use to find your login names, and the other quiet ways they scout a site before they hit it.
- An uploads-folder lockdown so that folder can never run code — a favorite hiding spot for code that attackers slip in.
- Malware scanning and removal — not just detection, but cleanup if something’s already there.
- Blocking 30 kinds of AI bot that copy site content, while search engines are let through, and serving your site through a worldwide speed and protection network once your domain is pointed through it, which absorbs aggressive traffic and speeds up delivery at the same time.
We reconnect your premium plugins and themes
Sites come to us with expired licenses all the time — a page-design tool, a forms plugin, a premium theme that quietly stopped getting updates when a renewal lapsed. A plugin that’s missing its security updates is one of the most common ways a WordPress site gets breached. We reconnect those licenses so your paid tools go back to receiving security updates the way they’re supposed to.
We trim the bloat
Years of a site’s life leave sediment: half-configured plugins, abandoned themes, tools that do the same job twice. Every one of them is extra code to maintain and one more door for attackers to try. We slim the site down to a lean, maintained setup — fewer moving parts, smaller target, easier to keep healthy.
We make it faster
Speed is partly the platform and partly the housekeeping. We convert your images into modern, lighter picture formats so pages carry less weight without looking any different. Pages are kept ready to load instantly, the HTTPS padlock is set up with an auto-renewing security certificate so it never lapses, and once your domain is pointed through it, everything is delivered through a worldwide network that serves your site from close to each visitor. Your dashboard shows your real speed scores for phone and desktop.
We fix the plumbing most people never see
This is the unglamorous part, and it’s where a lot of quiet problems live:
- Trusted-email setup so the mail your site sends — receipts, contact forms, password resets — actually lands in inboxes instead of spam folders.
- Database health checks, including upgrading an outdated database setup where needed, so the site is faster and sturdier when it’s busy.
- Accessibility improvements, so more of your visitors can actually use the site.
- Local search tuning, so the people nearby who are searching for what you do can find you.
We put a real safety net under it
Once the site is clean, fast, and locked down, we make sure it stays recoverable. Your site is backed up 3 times a day. Each backup goes to a separate off-site cloud, locked for 90 days against changes or deletion (so ransomware can’t hold your site hostage), and the backups are monitored — because a backup nobody checks has a way of not existing when you finally need it. We check that the site is actually reachable about every 3 minutes, day and night, so a problem gets caught by us rather than by a frustrated customer. And every time we update your site afterward, we verify it still looks and works right — real before-and-after checks, so a routine update never becomes a silent outage.
Then we keep doing it
Onboarding isn’t a one-time cleanup that fades. The firewall keeps filtering, the backups keep running, the updates keep getting verified, and support is there any hour, with a first reply within 15 minutes. If you want the plain checklist of what a genuinely managed plan should cover — before, during, and long after you join — we laid it out in what managed WordPress hosting should include.
Ready to hand it over?
You don’t have to prepare anything or untangle your old host first. That’s our job. Your move starts as soon as you sign up: tell us how to get into your current site, about two minutes, and we handle the move and the whole onboarding from there — free when you join. Start my move, or take a look at our managed WordPress and WooCommerce plans first.