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Founder-led hosting
built by a developer.

Hosterr is premium, fully managed WordPress hosting for businesses and agencies that want their websites faster, safer, and genuinely handled — not parked on a generic stack with a chatbot for support.

Ryan Lovett, founder of Hosterr
Founder · Developer

Ryan Lovett

Building and managing sites for 10+ years.

"I started Hosterr because hosting problems rarely live in one neat box. A slow site might be hosting, plugins, caching, theme code, third-party scripts, image handling, DNS — or years of accumulated decisions from other developers. Generic hosting support sends you a knowledge-base link. That's not enough."

10+
yrs building
500+
sites supported
Maine
Oakland, US
Why Hosterr exists

Generic hosting support
is not enough.

Businesses don't need more dashboards, vague support replies, or disconnected tools. They need a partner who understands the full story of their website — its history, its current needs, and what it takes to keep it truly managed.

Better technical ownership

When the website actually matters to your business, "managed" needs to mean someone is on the hook for the whole stack — not just the server.

Less internal stress

Updates, downtime, performance, recovery, post-launch support. Things that should never be a daily worry for the people running a business.

A more premium experience

Plain-English answers from a developer who knows your site. Same-day replies. Real triage when something breaks. No tier-one script.

How we work

Technical,
but approachable.

We don't speak in jargon, we don't bury you in dashboards, and we don't pretend updates are something you should be checking on a Saturday night. Here's what working with us actually looks like.

  • Founder-led communication
    You get straight answers from the person who can actually fix things — not handed off through three tiers of support.
  • Recommendations that fit
    Recommendations shaped by your site, your business, and the real support need. Not a generic upsell ladder.
  • A managed path forward
    Calm, premium, accountable. The hosting layer of your business becomes something you stop thinking about.
support thread · ticket #4128
RE:
Checkout page is slow after last week's plugin update
SM
Sarah Mason
Today, 9:14am

Hey — we're seeing checkout TTFB jump from ~400ms to almost 3 seconds since the WooCommerce update last week. Customer complaints are starting to come in. Can you take a look?

RL
Ryan @ Hosterr
Today, 10:02am

Already looking. Found it — Action Scheduler is backlogged, and 4.4 changed how it grooms old actions. Rolling the AS queue + tuning the cron interval. Should be back to normal in about 20 minutes. I'll confirm when checkout latency settles.

Resolved · 48m end-to-end
How we operate

A few non-negotiables.

Real people reply

A developer reads every email. No bots, no scripted tiers, no "we'll escalate that."

Plain English answers

If we can't explain a fix in plain English, the explanation isn't finished yet.

Snapshot before we change

Every patch, every update, every config tweak — automatic snapshot, instant rollback path.

Honest about trade-offs

Sometimes the answer is "your theme is the bottleneck, not your host." We'll say so.

No surprise fees

Mailboxes are $2/mo. Per-site pricing drops as you grow. Anything outside the plan is $95/hr, always quoted before we start. No fake tiers, no upsell ladder.

We answer the hard ones

Migrations gone wrong, post-launch chaos, malware cleanup — the unglamorous work others avoid.

Who we work with

In good company.

Agencies, businesses, nonprofits, and mission-driven teams across the US trust Hosterr with the WordPress sites that matter to their business.

ANPC
Go Auto
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Congruity 360
Animal Flow
The Pharmacist Choice
Speak Local
The Mobile Locker Co.
OE
Public Counsel
RYCO Inc
Sara Ray
UserGuard
World Academy

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