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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Does Performance Foundry Work Well?
Let's ask our clients!
We recently moved our website to Performance Foundry and what a difference! If we could go back in time, we would have done this sooner. For months we struggled with our old hosting provider, who could not keep up with our growing traffic. Frequently our site would crash during peak periods. It was very frustrating.
We were nervous about migrating our website to a new provider, which is why we waited so long. The migration was seamless and instantly our site ran faster (and our site has not crashed one time since joining Performance Foundry).
This is one of the best things we have ever done for our website. The price may sound expensive, but what you are getting is awesome support and access to a team of developers. Goodbye headaches, goodbye stress…I feel like we have someone looking out for us now and it is worth every penny.
I’ve heard about Performance Foundry from a friend. I was in a time of crisis. My website was down quite often and Hostgator didn’t seem to be able to prevent these failures. Performance Foundry stepped and although it was a weekend, they took the time to put my website up and in the process did some optimization. I haven’t been with them for too long, but I already feel that someone is behind me, ready to support me when I encounter issues or I have questions. They are patient, knowledgeable and extremely easy to work with.
I moved to Performance Foundry because we were having scaling issues with our other hosting. As our site’s traffic increased, so did the amount of times our website would crash. For 8 months we went back and forth with our old hosting support and got no where.
After we switched to Performance Foundry within 10 days, we had a site performance report and suggestions on how we could improve. They identified the main problem that was causing our site to crash and are helping us resolve it. Our site hasn’t crashed since the switch.
We couldn’t be happier with the level of customer service they provide. It is top class!
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.
I recently moved my blog to Performance Foundry Hosting and I couldn’t be happier with my decision. With my previous host, I seemed to be working on issues all the time and the technical side of blogging was a constant source of stress and expenses. I still remember dreading their emails and notifications!
Since moving, all this stress has been taken away from me: the blog is running smoothly and I never hear anything about it that requires my attention. The Performance Foundry tips to improve site speed, one of my biggest problems, have worked great and I can already tell traffic is improving because of it.
The PF team is really friendly and supportive: I am so happy with them I am now using their design services too. It is great to have one team taking care of everything, I highly recommend them to anyone looking for professional, all round support.
I recently transferred my family travel site hosting to Performance Foundry because I was looking for better support. I have been very happy with their service and recommendations to improve my site performance and speed. They have made it all very easy for me.
I was a little nervous before making my hosting switch since there were so many possibilities on what could go wrong, but Performance Foundry was patient with me to walk me through everything they were doing. They do all the heavy lifting and keep it incredibly simple for you. It was a flawless transition and I’m thankful for all the hard work they did on my behalf.
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!
Why I moved to Performance Foundry
My site was down with A2 hosting and they were not bothered about fixing it. I was paying them around $30/month and paying my dev 50/month yet when I had issues they just blamed each other. In the end PF was cheaper for me and offered WAY more, it was a no-brainer.
Benefits
I’ve joined the affiliate program so hope to save money on hosting through that – and the monthly fixes that are offered are great. This month I had them make a pop up for my ebook! I love that each month I can get something off my design/dev to do list for free.
What I love about Performance Foundry
They did the full speed test and work up of my site when I switched over, got rid of plugins, seem as OCD as me and seem to really care about my site functioning well – I was overly impressed.
Why should someone switch to Performance Foundry?
I would see if they are paying a dev a monthly fee – and if so, it’s probably a no brainer to switch because it saves money and time to not go between people. I’d also see if they are having downtime and want to strangle their host when on the phone lol, because wasting time with that holds us back with our blog and businesses.
Since switching, I haven’t had an issue yet when I had a month with family in July in the USA I was on the phone every other day fighting with A2 hosting about my site going down – it was horrible and I wish I switched sooner. The money is why I didn’t but once I worked out the dev costs and what was included with PF it is actually cheaper!
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!