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BrisTechTonic
Web designManaged hosting and care

Hosted, maintained and kept technically healthy.

You keep the quality you launch with. We host and look after the sites we build on our own platform, keeping them fast, secure and in good technical shape, because a fast, tidy site does not stay that way on its own.

Experienced3-month minimum, then 30-day rollingFree discovery call to start
What you get
Hosting on our own platform
Performance and uptime monitoring
Security, updates and backups
Ongoing technical health
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5.0136 Google reviewsElite Business Top 100, 2025 finalistExperienced Bristol team since 2019Hundreds of UK businesses helped
The short answer

BrisTechTonic is a Bristol SEO agency that helps UK businesses get found on Google, the local map pack and the AI assistants they now ask, like ChatGPT and Perplexity. Managed website hosting and care is the ongoing work of keeping a site fast, secure and technically healthy after it goes live: reliable hosting, speed kept high, security and updates taken care of, and the technical basics that search engines and AI tools rely on kept in good order rather than left to slip. We provide it on our own platform, for the sites we build, from £100 a month. We do not take on hosting for sites built elsewhere, because we can only stand behind what we made.

AEO included as standardFrom £299 + VAT / month3-month minimum, then 30-day rolling
In depth

Most sites are handed over at launch and then left to age. Updates lapse, the speed drifts, security gaps open, and a year later the fast, tidy site is neither. The next agency then charges to fix what a bit of upkeep would have prevented.

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We keep the sites we build in the condition we launched them in. Hosting, speed, security and technical health are all handled on our own platform, by the people who made the site, so the quality holds rather than quietly slipping away.

The maths of the build

A slow, clumsy site leaks the demand you already paid to earn.

53%
Of mobile visits are abandoned if a page takes over three seconds
Google / SOASTA
+32%
Rise in bounce as a page slows from one second to three
Google
7%
Drop in conversions for every extra 100ms of load time
Akamai
75%
Of people judge a company's credibility on its website alone
Stanford
10×
More visits to websites from AI assistants like ChatGPT than a year earlier
Adobe Analytics, 2025

These are industry figures, not our own results, and we do not invent numbers. They show why speed and clarity are revenue, not decoration: the traffic is the expensive part, and a slow build spills it. No result is ever guaranteed.

Proof

Some of our recent work.

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In their words

What clients say about working with us.

5.0 average · 109 reviews

“I've had the pleasure of working with Chris on several SEO projects for my websites in the health field. He was definitely been able to demystify things so that I felt able to make decisions with him and feel confident they were the right ones. For a non-techie, that is worth gold! I look forward to working with Chris again and warmly recommend him to anyone who - like me - is unsure about all things SEO.”

Biliana Avramova

“I was recommended by my branding partner to use Chris and his team last year. I can’t recommend them highly enough. They are very responsive , easy to communicate with and great at translating techy stuff when needed. They are now an essential part of my business model”

Sandra Webber

“We've been working closely with Chris, Hannah and the team for over 12 months now. As a small company with ambitious growth plans, it was incredibly important that we made the right choice on who to trust with our SEO. 18 months later, we're totally thrilled with our experience so far and our growing online presence within our market. We'd happily recommend BTT and their services to other SMEs. Drop them an enquiry!”

Dan H
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The team

Real people on your account, not a faceless agency.

You work directly with the senior people who do the work, a small Bristol team you will actually get to know, not a call centre or an account manager relaying messages.

Meet the team →
Chris McDowell, Founder & CEO at BrisTechTonicDominique, Fractional COO at BrisTechTonicHayley, Senior SEO Strategist at BrisTechTonicGenevieve, Client Services Manager at BrisTechTonicHannah Gooding, Senior Marketing Executive/Copywriter at BrisTechTonicOlivia, Senior Marketing Executive/Designer at BrisTechTonicAmelia Cheek, Marketing Executive at BrisTechTonic
Chris, Dominique, Hayley, Genevieve and the rest of the team
How we run it

The way we run Managed hosting and care.

01

Launch onto our platform

The site goes live on hosting set up for how we build, with speed checks and monitoring in place from day one.

02

Maintain and monitor

Security, updates, backups and speed are handled continuously, and any slip is flagged before it costs you.

03

Keep the standard

The technical health the site launched with is maintained, so the quality holds rather than drifting month by month.

Our approach

How do we approach Managed hosting and care?

Fast, kept fast

We keep an eye on the speed and maintain it, so the site does not quietly slow down as content and tracking tags build up in the months after launch.

Secure and up to date

Security, updates and backups are handled on our platform, so the site stays safe without you having to think about it.

Technically healthy

The things Google needs to read and understand your site, and the tidy foundations that search engines and AI tools rely on, are all kept in good order rather than left to wear away.

One accountable owner

Because we built the site and we host it, there is no finger-pointing between a builder and a host. It is one team, accountable end to end.

A BrisTechTonic strategist explaining an SEO plan at a whiteboard
The team behind the work

Real people doing the work, and putting their name to it.

You deal with our small, experienced Bristol team directly, from the first call to every monthly report.

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FOUND IN GOOGLE & AI

Will AI recommend you when buyers ask?

When someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google's AI about managed hosting and care, the answer is built from the sources those engines trust. We make yours the structured, well-cited content they quote, so your business is the one they name.

How we get you cited
ChatGPTPerplexityGeminiTrade pressDirectoriesGoogle AICommunitiesNewsClaudeIndustry bodyYOUR BRAND
What you get

What Managed hosting and care puts on your desk.

Hosting on our own platform
Fast and stable, set up for the sites we build, from £100 + VAT/mo
Performance and uptime monitoring
So speed and availability are watched, not assumed
Security, updates and backups
Handled continuously, so the site stays safe and recoverable
Ongoing technical health
The things Google needs to read your site, and its tidy foundations, kept up over time
From £100 + VAT
Per month, hosting and management
Experienced
Every account run by an experienced lead
Our builds
We host and maintain the sites we build
1 owner
Builder and host are the same team
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Are we the right fit for you?

A good fit if you…
You want managed hosting and care that brings the right enquiries, not just more traffic or vanity metrics.
You want to be found in Google and in AI answers, and you value plain-English reporting.
You want a named person on your account who explains what they're doing and why.
Probably not for you if you…
You want guaranteed results by next month. Good managed hosting and care compounds over time, and we won't promise that.
You want the cheapest option over the one that actually works.
You're not ready to share access to your analytics and site, which we need to measure anything.

Thinking of switching from another agency?

Moving your Managed hosting and care to us is more straightforward than staying somewhere that is not working. You keep everything you already own, we pick up without a gap, and we can run the whole thing for you or work alongside your team and your developers, whatever suits.

01

A free look first

We review what your current agency has done, tell you straight what is worth keeping and where the quick wins are. No obligation to move.

02

You keep what's yours

Your site, content, Google Business Profile and analytics stay in your name. We work with what you already have; nothing is held hostage.

03

A clean handover

We map the work across, set a plain-English baseline in the first few weeks, and carry on from there. No starting from zero, no quiet ranking gap.

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Three-month minimum, then rolling monthly on 30 days’ notice. No long lock-in, no exit fees.

Why us

We host what we build, and only that?

We host and maintain our own builds rather than take on sites we did not make, because care only means something when you can stand behind the whole thing. It is a deliberate limit, and it is why there is never a gap between the people who built the site and the people responsible for keeping it healthy.

Accountable end to end

The team that built the site hosts and looks after it, so its speed and health have one owner rather than a builder and a host blaming each other.

A deliberate limit

We do not host sites we did not build. It narrows who we work with, and it is the reason we can genuinely stand behind how every site we host performs.

Maintained, not just monitored

We keep the technical foundations in good order rather than only watching them decline, because prevention is cheaper than the rebuild it avoids.

Common questions

Managed hosting and care: common questions.

How much is hosting and maintenance?

From £100 a month, depending on the site. It covers hosting on our platform, speed and uptime monitoring, security, updates, backups and ongoing technical health.

Will you host our existing site?

No. We host and look after the sites we build, not sites built elsewhere. It is a deliberate limit: we can only stand behind the speed and health of a site we made. If you want that standard, the way in is a new build.

Do we own our site if you host it?

You are buying into a genuinely well-built site that we host and manage on our platform, rather than licensing code to run yourself. Your content and data are always yours; the build stays with us, kept fast and healthy.

What does maintenance actually include?

Hosting, speed and uptime monitoring, security, updates and backups, and the ongoing technical health, the things Google needs to read and understand your site and its tidy structure, that search engines and AI tools depend on.

Is hosting with you better for the environment?

A lean site on efficient hosting uses less energy per visit than a heavy site on a busy shared server. We can measure a page's footprint and show it rather than simply claim it.

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