// 005 - hosting & care\\ 2026

HOSTING THAT
PUNCHES UP.

Our own NVMe servers in five Australian cities. Cloudflare edge in front. Postmark email delivery. S3 image CDN. Domain renewals tracked. One human you can email when something's off. Built for the sites we build - works for any modern site you have.

// 005 - hosting

ON OUR OWN
METAL.

We own and operate NVMe-only fleets in five Australian cities. Your customers hit a server that's a few milliseconds away, not one in Virginia or Frankfurt. Every site we build lives on this fleet, fully managed and monitored by us.

dws@fleet:~ # nodes --status

Region

SYDNEY

Coordinates

-33.86, 151.20

Hardware

32C / 256GB / NVMe

Disk

100% NVMe SSD · ZFS mirror

Median latency

8ms AU east

Uptime (12mo)

99.99%

Daily backups

Encrypted snapshots, off-host. 14-60 day retention by plan.

Premium mail

Postmark deliverability, SPF/DKIM/DMARC configured.

S3 image CDN

Originals on S3, served via image CDN - auto WebP/AVIF, resized on demand.

Renewals tracked

Domain expiry watched. We ping you at 60/30/7 days.

Patched + monitored

Security updates within 24h, uptime checks every minute.

Cloudflare in front

Global edge cache, DDoS protection, WAF - included.

Plans.

Plans scale with your site's complexity and traffic, not a page count — we'll recommend the right one based on the site we build for you.

Small

Brochure sites and small business presences.

$10/ mo
  • NVMe SSD in your chosen AU city
  • 5 GB storage · simpler sites, lighter traffic
  • Free SSL, daily backups (14-day retention)
  • Premium email delivery
  • Standard CDN + caching
Choose this →

Medium

Busy small business and content-driven sites.

$30/ mo
  • Everything in Small
  • 10 GB storage · busier, more complex sites
  • S3 file CDN for fast media delivery
  • Daily backups, 30-day retention
  • Priority support
Choose this →

Large

Ecommerce, portals, anything mission-critical.

$90/ mo
  • Everything in Medium
  • 30 GB storage · high-traffic, complex apps
  • More RAM & CPU for demanding workloads
  • Hourly backups, 60-day retention
  • Staging environment + CI deploys
  • Custom integrations support
Choose this →

// domains

We pick the right registrar for the job.

.com.au, .au, .org.au, .com, .co - we'll suggest the right TLD and registrar (we prefer Synergy Wholesale for .au and Cloudflare for everything else). Domains stay in your name, we manage them. Renewals are tracked: you get pings at 60, 30 and 7 days before expiry. No surprise outages, no extortion-renewal racket.

Cities served by AU registries: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide.

// email

Site emails that arrive.

Receipts, order confirmations, password resets, booking reminders, invoices, renewal notices - sent via Postmark. SPF, DKIM and DMARC configured properly so they land in the inbox, not the spam folder. Bounce + complaint monitoring with alerts so we catch problems before they snowball into deliverability damage.

Average inbox-placement rate across our fleet: 99.4%.

// 007 - fair questions

THINGS PEOPLE
ACTUALLY ASK.

  • It depends on how much you need built, but most projects land between $500 and $20,000 AUD. A clean custom brochure site can start around $500 to $1,500; add bookings, payments or a customer login and it's usually a few thousand; a larger platform with portals and integrations runs toward the upper end. Every quote is a fixed price agreed before we start, so there are no hourly surprises. Tell us your budget and we'll tell you honestly what's achievable within it.

// 008 - your move

BUILD
SOMETHING
WEIRDER.

A short quote form, real reply within one business day, no auto-responder. If your idea's vague we'll help you sharpen it. If it's clear we'll cost it. Either way you'll learn something useful from talking to us.