Website hosting · Bay City, MI
Website hosting in Bay City, MI that doesn’t depend on one volunteer.
Plenty of Bay City churches, clubs, and nonprofits have a website that one volunteer set up years ago. When that person moves on, nobody knows the passwords or who the host is. Our hosting and care plans put the site in steady hands.
What you get
Website hosting in Bay City, MI: what’s included.
- Hosting, updates, and backups handled for you
- Passwords and access kept safe, even when volunteers change
- Remediated PDFs posted automatically through ADAComply
- Uptime and security monitoring around the clock
- Small edits like service times and events done on request
- A nearby person to call instead of a help desk
When the website person leaves
It happens all the time. A church member builds the site, a board member pays the hosting bill on a personal card, and a few years later both have moved on. The site still runs, mostly, but nobody can log in, plugins haven’t been updated, and no one is sure it’s even backed up.
We untangle that. We review the site, recover access, move it to our servers, and document who owns what. From then on, your organization has a relationship with us instead of depending on one person’s memory.
Part of that is making sure your organization owns its own domain. We regularly find domains registered to a former volunteer’s personal email, which becomes a real problem if the renewal notice goes unanswered. We help move ownership back to the organization where it belongs.
Bulletins, minutes, and accessible PDFs
Churches, schools, service clubs, and local public bodies in Bay County publish a steady stream of PDFs: bulletins, newsletters, agendas, minutes, and forms. More and more of them need to be readable by people who use screen readers.
If your site is ADA-compliant and you have your PDFs remediated through our partner ADAComply, the finished documents are posted to your site automatically. Nobody has to log in and upload them. Our PDF remediation page explains how it works, and our article on ADA compliance covers the rules in plain English.
This isn’t limited to large organizations. Smaller congregations and clubs publish the same kinds of documents, and the goal is simple: anyone in your community should be able to read what you post.
What the care plan covers
Fast hosting on servers we manage. Daily backups. Software and plugin updates, each one recorded in a change log. Security and uptime monitoring, so if the site goes down, we know first. Small content edits when you send them, like a new staff photo, a holiday schedule, or an event. Businesses get the same plan, and it works just as well for a shop on Washington Avenue as for a congregation on the east side.
For churches, that often means weekly or seasonal updates: a new sermon series, holiday service times, a youth event, or a fundraiser. Send those to us, or we can set up simple editing so a staff member or volunteer can make changes without breaking anything.
Hosting a site we didn’t build
We host sites built by other people all the time. If yours is solid, we move it and look after it. If it has problems, we’ll tell you what they are and what fixing them would cost. When a fresh start makes more sense, our Bay City website design team can help.
Plenty of Bay City businesses are in the same spot as churches and nonprofits: a relative or former employee built the site, and nobody has touched it since. The fix is the same. We review it, recover access, back it up, and put it on a plan where someone watches it every day.
Everything we do is recorded in a change log, which helps organizations with boards and committees. When someone asks what changed on the website and why, there’s a clear answer.
Common questions
Good to know before we start.
Can you take over a site when we don’t have the login?
Usually, yes. As long as your organization owns the domain, we can work through recovering access and move the site safely.
Do you offer pricing for churches and nonprofits?
We scope every plan to what the organization needs and give you a fixed quote. Many of the sites we host belong to churches and nonprofits.
What if we need to post something urgently?
Send it over and we’ll get it up. See everything included in our hosting and care plans.
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