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Mayer Networks hosts and maintains websites on infrastructure it owns and operates in Carbondale, Illinois, including platform updates, TLS certificates, backups and the DNS records the site and your email both depend on.
Who this is for
- Organizations whose site is hosted somewhere nobody can log into
- Clients who want the website supported by the same company as the rest of their technology
- Agencies with public information obligations that cannot tolerate a site being down quietly
What prompts the work
- The hosting account is in a former employee's name
- Platform and plugin updates have not been applied in years
- A certificate expired and the site started warning visitors
- No one has verified a backup of the site can be restored
What is included
- Hosting on infrastructure operated in Carbondale, Illinois
- Platform, theme and plugin updates
- TLS certificate issuance and renewal
- Site backups with restore testing
- Uptime monitoring
- DNS management coordinated with Microsoft 365 mail records
- Content and small change requests
How a project runs
Step 1
Inventory
Where the site is hosted, who registered the domain, what platform and versions are running, and which DNS records mail depends on.
Step 2
Migrate
The site is staged, verified, then cut over with DNS TTLs lowered in advance and email records carried across untouched.
Step 3
Maintain
Updates, certificates, backups and monitoring run on a schedule rather than in response to a complaint.
Why Mayer Networks
- Hosted on infrastructure we operate, not resold from a platform we cannot see into
- Website DNS and Microsoft 365 mail records managed by the same engineers
- Backups verified by restore rather than assumed
- A phone number that reaches the people who run the servers
Security considerations
- Updates applied on a schedule, since unpatched plugins are the common route into small-business sites
- Administrative accounts named and limited, with shared logins removed
- TLS enforced sitewide
- Backups retained separately from the running site so a compromise does not take them with it
Where is our site actually hosted?
In the datacenter Mayer Networks owns and operates in Carbondale, Illinois, with redundant datacenter capability used in the hosting architecture.
Will moving hosting interrupt our email?
It should not. Email depends on separate DNS records, and we inventory MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC before any move and carry them across deliberately.
Do you host sites you did not build?
Yes, after a review of the platform and its current state.
What happens if the site goes down?
Monitoring alerts us, and the people who respond are the same engineers who operate the hosting infrastructure.
Industries that rely on this
Related services
- BrandingBrandingBranding is a service division of Mayer Networks covering how an organization presents itself: brand development and logo design, graphic and print design, website design, search visibility, and the domain, hosting and care plans that keep the site working afterwards.
- BrandingWebsite Design & MarketingMayer Networks builds and maintains websites for regional organizations, including hosting, ongoing care, domain management, design work and search visibility, with security and accessibility treated as requirements rather than extras.
- Cloud & InfrastructurePrivate Cloud HostingMayer Networks operates its own datacenter in Carbondale, Illinois, and hosts private-cloud infrastructure there for businesses and government organizations. It is infrastructure we own, operate and support, not a public cloud platform resold under our name.
- Cloud & InfrastructureMicrosoft 365Mayer Networks helps organizations across Southern Illinois deploy, administer, secure, support and continuously manage Microsoft 365. That includes email, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, licensing, identity, security, migrations, governance and day-to-day support for the users who depend on it.
Let's talk about your technology
Tell us what you are running and what is not working. We will tell you plainly what we would do about it.