Havenswift Hosting is a hosting company that specialises rather than generalises. Our focus is e-commerce and shopping cart solutions, and WordPress hosting including WordPress based shops running WooCommerce. Everything else we do sits around those two things.
With online sales taking an ever larger share of retail, you need a hosting company that understands what a shop actually does rather than one that treats it as another website. Setting up a store using one of the many off the shelf shopping carts is easy and costs little. Choosing the right one, configuring it properly, getting the on-site SEO right and making it fast is much harder, and without those things the rest of the effort is wasted.
A shop is database heavy in a way a brochure site is not. Every category listing, filter, search and basket update is query work, and it happens on every visit. That is why our e-commerce plans run on servers tuned for MySQL throughput and deliberately loaded well below capacity.
We host CubeCart, WooCommerce, OpenCart and Magento stores, and any other PHP and MySQL based system. Our CubeCart hosting includes free CubeCart support, which as far as we know no other hosting company offers.
WordPress runs a very large share of the web, which also makes it the most heavily targeted platform on it. Hosting it well is mostly about three things: keeping the software and its plugins current, having enough resource for the plugins actually installed, and being able to restore quickly if something does go wrong.
Our WordPress hosting covers all three. You get your choice of PHP version, free SSL issued and renewed automatically, daily backups you can restore yourself, and one click installation and updates. For WordPress shops, our WooCommerce hosting is sized for the additional database work a shop creates.
For a standard WordPress site without a shop attached, our shared hosting plans are the right starting point, and we will say so rather than sell you something larger.
Our team are experienced hosting and support professionals used to working with web developers, designers and small to medium sized businesses. Particular expertise exists in MySQL, PHP and cPanel hosting.
Support tickets are answered by people who administer the servers. That means the person reading your ticket can look at the actual problem rather than working through a script, and it is the difference between a fix and a suggestion to clear your browser cache.
Unlike companies that appear to offer unlimited hosting, we have always placed clear limits on disk space and monthly bandwidth.
Unlimited hosting does not exist. Disks and network connections have finite capacity, and a plan advertised as unlimited is either relying on most customers using very little, or is enforcing limits that are simply not published. Either way, the customer using the resource is on a server with everyone who was attracted by the same promise.
We would rather state the limits, load the servers to a level that leaves headroom, and support the sites properly. If you outgrow a plan it is straightforward to upgrade, with no penalty and no downtime.
If you are not sure which plan fits, tell us what you are running and roughly how busy it is. We will point you at the right one, including when that is a smaller plan than you were expecting. If you are moving from another host, migration is free and we handle the DNS planning so the switch costs you no downtime.