Managed Digital Asset Stewardship
WP Digital Steward protects the digital assets your business depends on
Your WordPress website, domain and email are important business assets. We provide ongoing technical stewardship to keep them secure, maintained, recoverable and under your control.
One point of responsibility
Having suppliers is not the same as having someone responsible.
Most businesses rely on several different providers to keep their digital presence working. The domain may be registered with one company, DNS managed somewhere else, the website hosted by another provider, email supplied through Microsoft or Google, and a web designer or agency may also be involved.
While everything is running smoothly, that arrangement can seem perfectly adequate. The problem appears when something goes wrong. A domain expires, DNS is changed incorrectly, the website is hacked, email stops being delivered, a backup cannot be restored, or an important account becomes inaccessible. Suddenly the question is not simply “Who provides this service?” but “Who is responsible for getting everything working again?”
WP Digital Steward provides a single point of technical responsibility for the digital assets your business depends on — your domain, your website and your email identity.
Three digital assets that deserve proper stewardship
Your business may think of its website, domain and email as separate services. In reality, they are closely connected — and each one is important to your identity, reputation and ability to operate online.
Your Domain
The foundation of your online identity
Your domain is more than a web address. It is the name customers use to find you, the address behind your email, and a digital asset that should always remain securely under your control.
If it expires, is misconfigured or falls into the wrong hands, the consequences can affect both your website and your email.
What matters:
Ownership, continuity, control and correct configuration.
Your Website
A business asset that needs to stay available and trustworthy
Your website may generate enquiries, take bookings, process sales, provide information or simply establish your credibility.
If it becomes unavailable, compromised or outdated, the impact is not just technical. It can affect customers, revenue and confidence in your business.
What matters:
Security, availability, maintenance and recoverability.
Your Email Identity
Protect the trust attached to your business name
Every email sent from your domain carries your business identity with it.
Poorly configured email systems can cause legitimate messages to be rejected or sent to junk folders. Worse, criminals may attempt to impersonate your domain to send fraudulent or phishing emails.
What matters:
Trust, deliverability and protection against impersonation.
Word Steward looks after these assets as part of one connected digital environment — not as isolated services.
Small technical problems can become business problems
Most of the systems behind your website work quietly in the background. When they are properly managed, you rarely need to think about them.
But when something is overlooked, expires, becomes compromised or simply fails, a technical issue can quickly affect customers, staff, revenue and the reputation of your business.
Domain expires
Your business can disappear from the internet
An overlooked renewal can take down your website and disrupt email at the same time — potentially leaving customers unable to find or contact you.
Account compromised
Someone else gains control
A compromised administrator, registrar or hosting account can give an attacker access to systems that your business depends on.
Website hacked
Customers can lose confidence
A compromised website may be defaced, redirected, used to distribute malware or taken offline altogether. The damage can extend beyond the website itself to your business reputation.
Update causes a failure
A routine change interrupts business
Websites depend on many pieces of software working together. Even necessary maintenance occasionally causes something to break — which is why someone needs to be watching and able to respond.
Backup cannot be restored
The safety net isn’t there when you need it
Having a backup is not the same as knowing you can recover from it. When a website fails or is compromised, the ability to restore a clean working copy can make the difference between an inconvenience and a major disruption.
Email identity is abused
Someone pretends to be your business
Criminals can attempt to impersonate your domain in phishing and fraudulent email. Poor email configuration can also mean legitimate messages never reach your customers.
Complete peace of mind
Select the package that best suits your needs, or discuss it with us for recommendations
Essential
$99/m
- DNS on Cloudflare
- Cloudflare security rules
- Fast, secure hosting
- Monthly backups
- Managed updates
Business
$149/m
- Everything in Essential
- Weekly backups
- Site Security Pro
- Cloudflare Turnstile
- xSpeed cache
Recommended
Business Plus
$199/m
- Everything in Business
- Cloudflare Enterprise
- Cloudflare edge cache (CDN)
- Cloudflare managed security rules
- Cloudflare Firewall
Custom
Custom Pricing
- custom solutions for custom sites
- agency with many sites
- high performance ecommerce sites