Crawl capacity
Google adjusts how much it crawls based on how quickly and reliably your server responds. Slow or failing servers get crawled less.
HSTwebsite hosting and maintenance
Website hosting and maintenance, run by people who read your crawl stats.
Website hosting and maintenance from Founcy Solutions treats the server as part of your search performance. We run your site on UK hosting we manage, or on the host you already use, with daily backups and security included. Uptime, response times and Googlebot's crawl health are watched together, and SSL, CDN and updates are handled by the same team.
- crawl health monitored
- restore-tested backups
- one team, no finger-pointing
- server response time charted continuously
- checks: uptime, TTFB, SSL and domain, backups, crawl health, CDN and WAF
- caught: Googlebot receiving 5xx errors during a traffic peak
crawl stats watched503 for planned workcdn + waf
definition
What is website hosting and maintenance?
Website hosting and maintenance combines the server environment your site runs on with the ongoing care that keeps it fast and secure: setup or migration, SSL and DNS, CDN and firewall, backups, patching and monitoring. Hosting is the platform; maintenance is everything that keeps the site on it healthy. Run by one team, there's no gap between "the host's problem" and "the developer's problem", and that includes how quickly and reliably search engines can crawl you.
- Where
- UK hosting we manage, or the host you already use
- Covers
- Server, SSL, DNS, CDN, WAF, backups, patching and monitoring
- Watched
- Uptime, server response time and Search Console crawl stats
- Ownership
- Accounts, domains and data stay in your name
does hosting affect seo?
Four ways your server shows up in search.
Hosting rarely gets credit for rankings, but it sets the ceiling. These are the mechanics we manage for.
Server errors
Persistent 5xx responses can cause URLs to drop out of Google's index. Brief blips recover; ongoing ones cost pages.
Planned maintenance
Downtime should return 503 with a Retry-After header, not a 200 "back soon" page that can be indexed in place of your content.
Speed
Server response time is the first slice of Largest Contentful Paint, one of the Core Web Vitals. No front-end tuning wins it back.
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Managed hosting, fully looked after.
From choosing the environment to proving the backups work.
Hosting assessment
Platform, region and plan size, chosen from your audience and field data.
Setup or migration
Configuration, or a move onto the new environment with a planned cutover.
SSL, DNS & domains
Certificates, records and renewals managed and monitored.
CDN, caching & WAF
Configured so caches never serve stale noindex tags or wrong canonicals.
Backups
Automated off-site backups with defined retention and scheduled test restores.
Monitoring
Uptime, response time and crawl health, with alerts that reach a person.
Patching & capacity
Server and CMS patches in maintenance windows, plus capacity reviews.
Monthly report
Uptime, speed, crawl health and security in one page.
hosting, search-aware
Most hosts watch the server. We watch what Google sees.
googlebot's view: nobody's job
Monitoring"Is the server up?"Uptime plus response times, error rates and Search Console crawl stats
Planned downtimeA "back soon" page that returns 200503 with Retry-After, so crawlers come back later instead of indexing it
CachingAggressive rules nobody documentsCache rules tested against canonicals, redirects and robots directives
Server locationWherever the plan was cheapestRegion and CDN chosen from where your visitors actually are
Backups"Included" and never testedOff-site, retained to a policy, and test-restored on a schedule
When it breaksHost blames the site, developer blames the hostOne team owns both, from server to SEO
how we take over
Assess, move, then watch.
No surprise migrations. Every change has a tested rollback.
- 01
Assess
Current performance, crawl stats, Core Web Vitals, security posture and cost, measured before anything changes.
→ hosting assessment - 02
Recommend & plan
Environment, region, CDN and backup policy, with a cutover plan if a move makes sense.
→ hosting plan - 03
Migrate or configure
Built and tested on the new environment, DNS TTL lowered beforehand, and the old server kept live until propagation completes.
→ tested cutover - 04
Monitor
Uptime, response times, errors and crawl health tracked continuously, with alerts routed to a person.
→ live monitoring - 05
Review
Quarterly capacity, cost and security reviews, so the setup grows with your traffic.
→ quarterly review
platforms
Hosting platforms we work with.
// cloud
AWSGoogle CloudMicrosoft Azure
// managed wordpress
KinstaWP EnginePantheon
// edge & security
Cloudflare DNSCDNWAFLet's Encrypt
// monitoring
Synthetic uptime checksSearch Console crawl statsCrUXServer logs
what drives the cost
What does managed hosting cost?
Infrastructure is only part of it. Set these four to see what kind of setup fits.
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Website support & management
Ongoing support and search-health monitoring for any platform.
Explore → MIGMove hosts without losing rankings
Redirect-mapped, crawl-verified migrations with a rollback plan.
Explore → WPMWordPress maintenance
Staged updates and an SEO check after every update cycle.
Explore → SOSSite down right now?
Emergency support for outages, hacks and sudden deindexing.
Explore →faq
Hosting & maintenance questions.
Indirectly, but meaningfully. Slow responses and server errors limit how much Google crawls, persistent 5xx errors can drop pages from the index, and server response time is the first part of Largest Contentful Paint, a Core Web Vitals metric.
Either. We can host your site on UK hosting we manage, with daily backups and security included, or manage the provider you already use. Accounts, domains and data stay in your name in both cases.
Mostly for speed: visitors far from the server wait longer for each response. A CDN narrows that gap a lot. We choose the region based on where most of your visitors actually are.
Uptime commitments vary by provider and plan. Read the provider's SLA for what counts as downtime and what compensation applies. We monitor from outside the host, so you see the real figure rather than the advertised one.
Hosting is the server environment. Maintenance is the care of the site running on it: CMS and plugins, content, backups and SEO health. Bundling both removes the "not our problem" gap between host and developer.
We build and test on the new server, lower DNS TTLs beforehand, switch during a low-traffic window, and keep the old server live until DNS propagation completes, with a rollback ready throughout.
It depends on traffic, storage, how many environments you need, any compliance requirements, and how much maintenance is bundled. We quote after an assessment of your current setup.
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