Your agency does not want to be a hosting company. Stop pretending.
I run the WordPress stack so you do not have to.
Managed hosting, maintenance, and security for your entire book of client sites. White-label, co-branded, or openly partnered. Your call.
The part of the job you hate
- The 2am call from the client whose site is down.
- The “quick plugin update” that took out the header.
- The security compromise you had to explain to the client’s CFO.
- The developer you hired in 2019 who does not return calls anymore.
- The hosting support ticket that has been open three days.
- The client blaming you when the VPS vendor is actually the problem.
- The margin bleed on sites that should be long-term profit.
You built the agency to design, strategize, market. Not to be a sysadmin.
What I do for agencies
Managed hosting for the whole book
Your entire client base on hardened WordPress hosting. 24/7 monitoring. Nightly backups, verified weekly. Uptime guarantees. Priced for agencies, not enterprise.
Plugin and core update management
Visual regression testing on staging. Agency approves. I deploy. If something breaks, I roll it back before the client sees it.
Security hardening and incident response
Cloudflare, Patchstack, Wordfence, hardened WAF rules, CSP, rate limiting. Client gets hit? I clean it up and write the forensics report you hand them.
Performance optimization
Breeze, image pipelines, query tuning, HTTP/3, edge caching. Your client calls saying “the site is fast now” and thinks you did it.
Client reports, your brand
White-label monthly reports. Uptime, security events, backup verification, performance trend. PDFs you drop straight into client emails.
A real partner, not a vendor
One person on the phone. Same Slack. Same escalation path every time. You always know what the state of every client site actually is.
Invisible or visible. Your call.
White-label
You front everything. Your logo on the reports, your name on the emails. My name never comes up. I am your “infrastructure team.”
Works when: the client thinks you handle everything end-to-end and you want that perception to hold.
Named partner
You bring me in openly. Introduce me on the call. I show up as your hosting and security guy. Some agencies prefer this because it signals depth and lets you stay in the “strategy” seat.
Works when: the client has real technical requirements and you want a named specialist on the record.
Same work. Same price. Mix and match per client.
What agencies say
“Fantastic developer, knows his stuff. Very responsive and great attention to detail.”
Greg Alexander, President/CEO, VisionAmp Web Design
“Our go-to for PHP programming. Knowledgeable, fast turnaround, easy to work with.”
Jack Reiner, Cybersecurity Partner for Marketing Agencies
“Blake delivered great code on time and gave tons of value-add with his security and WordPress expertise.”
Phillip Barnhart, Senior Marketing Technology Manager, ZenBusiness
“Intelligent, knowledgeable, reliable. Repeatedly demonstrated his attention to detail tackling sophisticated problems.”
Nader Dabit, Growth @ Cognition
“Rare to find a full-stack developer who provides this level of service at a reasonable price.”
J.C. Hiatt, Founder
“Detail-oriented and a skilled PHP developer. His grasp on development and systems administration has proven extremely valuable.”
Derek Belrose, Sr. Managing Strategy Consultant, BoxBoat (an IBM company)
How we start
30-minute intro call. Free. We walk your client book, flag what is on fire, and figure out whether the economics work.
No pitch deck. No contract. No “discovery phase.”
If it makes sense we price a pilot on one or two client sites. If it does not, you leave with a triage list you can hand to whoever does this next.