The best thing about working with Performance Foundry is that I feel I can trust them.
Colleen Lanin, TravelMamas.com
Managed WordPress Hosting and Maintenance
We not only host your website, we look after it for you.
What do we do?
Migrate your site to our servers
Host your site
Optimise for speed
Daily backups
Run updates
Keep your site secure
Answer your WP questions
Fix small issues
Enabling Bigger Business
Griffin’s business was growing. 5DayDeal.com runs flash sales for photographers: thousands of dollars of training and software reduced to around a hundred bucks. But Griffin and his team just couldn’t handle the traffic from hundreds of thousands of visitors.
Until they came to Performance Foundry.
For the first time in 5DayDeal history the servers did not crash during the initial onslaught of hour one…
Since the last sale we hired the team from Performance Foundry to do a complete overhaul of the site for speed and optimisation.
If you need help with a high performance WordPress website, I highly recommend Performance Foundry.
Griffin Stewart, 5DayDeal.com
Seven Steps To A Great Website
The Foundry Seven Step Process is the heart of our development work. It keeps you in control, and your project on time and on budget.
Our process ensures consistently excellent websites with a completely personalised approach. Each WordPress website we build is unique and custom made, with each of our seven stages designed to ensure you receive professional service at affordable prices, and finish with an excellent website.
1. Exploration
You tell us what you want your website to achieve for your business, and we go from there.
1. Exploration
You tell us what you want your website to achieve for your business.
We create a strategy document in which we recognise what makes your business unique and identify goals to be met when building you an effective website.
2. Website Framework
We create the framework for your website, decide how visitors are going to move through it, and identify the job which each page has to do.
2. Website Framework
We create the framework for your website, decide how visitors are going to move through it, and identify the job which each page has to do. This framework is presented as PDF wireframes, so they’re easy to look at, discuss, and change.
You have total control over approving the role of each page of your website and are able to start creating your website’s content or we can refer you to a copywriting team to meet your needs.
3. Design
Your website takes shape, colour and form.
3. Design
We start to design the appearance of your website with draft concepts to meet the needs of your target audience, your brand and goals.
You choose the design aspects, colours, fonts and images you like and want to use on your website from our three draft concepts, and we refine the concept until you’re happy.
4. Development
We use the design choices you made to build upon your website framework, and our development team tests every feature and link.
4. Development
We use the design choices you made to build upon your website framework, with our development team testing every feature and link on multiple devices and screen sizes.
5. Staging
We're almost there -- adding content, fixing bugs, and training you to manage your site.
5. Staging
You give us the content, photos and images for your website.
We load them onto your website, train you how to use your website, install Google Analytics, link your website to your social media accounts and set a launch date!
6. Launch
We launch your website when you want and how you want – overnight with no fuss, or with fireworks in collaboration with your PR and marketing teams.
6. Launch
We launch your website when you want and how you want – overnight with no fuss, or with fireworks in collaboration with your PR and marketing teams.
You sit back and relax, enjoying instant updating of your new website with no downtime.
7. Maintenance and Optimisation
We keep your website running with managed hosting, security monitoring, regular updates and website optimisation.
7. Maintenance and Optimisation
We keep your website running with managed hosting, security monitoring, regular updates and website optimisation as needed with our Managed WordPress Hosting solutions.
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Moving to Performance Foundry
I’d been with a “top rated” host for over 5 years, but began to realize, after seeing Craig’s wise comments on Travel Blog Success, that my “#1 host” was actually steering me wrong and hurting my site in a number of ways. When that host completely broke my site for almost 24 hours after doing a required upgrade, I knew I had to switch to someone who actually knows the cutting-edge technology, and how to use it correctly.
Benefits
After moving to PF, not only did my site speed up significantly, but PF found a MAJOR database error that had been messing up my sites for years that my old host didn’t catch. After days of hard work, PF was able to find a brilliant fix for it, which I am so appreciative for.
Postitive vibe
Everyone at PF is so professional, pleasant, helpful, and knowledgable. It helps that I personally know and fully trust Linda and Craig, too!
Why switch to Performance Foundry?
The clearest example for PF’s superiority for me was my differing experience between my old host and PF with regards to SSL implementation, since I have two sites and did one of each.
With my old host, SSL implementation was done in a clunky way that was full of weeks of errors and issues. In contrast, my SSL migration with Performance Foundry was seamless and brilliant. None of the errors that I got with the old host happened, and PF’s support and knowledge were stellar.
I would highly recommend PF for both managed hosting and SSL migration! I only wish I’d switched over sooner!
Side note: Performance Foundry offers web design! This is another thing I wish I’d known and used earlier!
I made the switch to Performance Foundry as my hosting provider when it became clear that the previous plan I had wasn’t able to handle the kind of traffic I was getting. The switch was seamless and I never noticed any down time. They were even able to find a way to keep my email address on my old hosting plan (where I have a couple other smaller sites) which saved me a lot of headache.
Almost immediately I noticed an uptick in traffic. In the short time I’ve been with them, I’ve done several things to improve my search traffic, but it’s clear that one of the things that has helped is being with Performance Foundry. They fixed up some things on my site to make it run faster, and my traffic (and bank account) are showing the results.
It’s a little weird to hand over the reins on a few things I’m used to doing myself or having my husband/developer do for me, but I know Craig and Linda and their staff know what they’re doing. I’m definitely happy I made this switch.
I was facing downtimes and lack of support of my previous host. Performance Foundry not only have my site up & running 100% but also helped me to fix several speed issues on my website.
Best decision ever!
I’ve spent most of my years in the corporate world looking after customers, and after one too many bad customer experiences with my original host, I went looking for someone more professional.
Being fairly new to the blogging world at the time, I didn’t really feel as though I could justify spending a lot of money on a host. But it was hard to overlook my values of quality and integrity.
Time and time again, since signing on with Performance Foundry I have had my decision validated. Exceptional customer service, every time, and only the very best of help and support. The fact that they ring me a couple of times a year just to “check-in” is testament to the value they place on customer service.
Being able to do everything I need to to run my business is so much easier knowing these guys are my back end support.
Craig and the team have always gone the extra mile by taking the time to understand our business requirements, providing an extremely professional and efficient personalised service.
We recently requested Performance Foundry commence a trial of SEO optimisation. We are seeing real gains in turning clicks into hard leads through the expert analysis and detailed reporting that Performance Foundry provide.
We would happily recommend Performance Foundry to any other businesses that are looking to build a long term solid relationship with their SEO optimisation / website maintenance provider.
Craig Martin has been a part of Travel Blog Success, my online community for travel bloggers, since it launched in 2010. Over the years, I’ve watched him engage and help bloggers firsthand.
In Fall 2016, when Travel Blog Success was experiencing multiple technical problems, in part due to changes in the server environment of our web host, I appealed to him for help. Because the issue was affecting our sales, he treated it as a high priority, working over a dozen hours to troubleshoot the problem.
Ultimately, we were able to resolve the biggest issue, and a host of smaller ones, by moving Travel Blog Success to Performance Foundry’s hosting. Since then, we’ve used Performance Foundry to perform a variety of small and medium design-related tasks, and have been very happy with the support and results.
I’m happy to recommend Craig and his team to bloggers everywhere!
We had been unhappy with our previous hosting provider for a while and had investigated other hosting options but didn’t find one that we thought would be more reliable.
When we heard about Performance Foundry, we loved the idea but were unsure about the cost involved. Having been with Performance Foundry for nearly two months now, I wish we had made the jump sooner!
Signing up to Performance Foundry has been, without doubt, one of our best investments to date. Our site is faster, the load time is quicker and our page views have increased by one third in just a few weeks. We could not be happier.
I switched over to Performance Foundry from a budget host after I installed a “site down” monitoring alert. As it turned out, my website was regularly offline, and I was also noticing exploits such as URL injections. I’m trying to develop a WordPress-based business, and it was abundantly clear to me that my lack of technical knowledge was likely to result in ongoing problems.
I solved this situation by switching to Performance Foundry. Their expert, personalised assistance immediately meant that I have dramatically improved site uptime (it’s as close to 100% as it can reasonably be), and their specialised hosting led to a massive speed boost, which immediately resulted in more traffic. I’ve also got the peace of mind of knowing that magical ninja WordPress security elves (I’m pretty sure that’s how it works?) are securing my site from external attack around the clock.
Basically, Performance Foundry manages the site for me, so I can focus on my business. I’m so glad I made the switch.
I migrated Living the Dream over to Performance Foundry as my site was growing beyond what my old host could provide and was experiencing frequent crashes and long load times. The migration to Performance Foundry was seamless and almost immediately my homepage load time improved by upwards of 90% before any other optimizations were done.
Whenever I’ve had an issue come up on my site, the support team gets back to me almost immediately with a fix. Many times the problem was being worked on before I even notified them about it, too. It is because of this that I migrated my second blog, Discover the Burgh, over to Performance Foundry just one month after Living the Dream and now no longer have the worry I once had to keep my sites running at their best.
The best thing about working with Performance Foundry is that I feel I can trust them. And, they don’t take things personally or get wound up when I’m worried about something to do with my website. They assure me that everything will smooth over, and it always does. This calm and respectful attitude appears to be quite unusual among web developers. They have gotten me out of a few pickles that other tech support companies could not.