Starter
1 siteOne good website is enough to start.
KSh 399 / month
First 3 months free — valid payment method at signup, cancel anytime
- 1 website or application
- Custom domain
- SSL
- Automated backups
- Monitoring
- Managed environment
Managed Hosting
Run your projects. We’ll run the infrastructure.
Host websites, applications, client projects and business systems on managed StackHost infrastructure without taking on the server management behind them.
You deploy what you need. We handle the environment, maintenance and infrastructure around it.
Starter covers one site at KSh 399 a month with the first three months free — a valid payment method at signup, and you can cancel anytime.Live regions Dallas · Denver
Your application, and everything StackHost keeps running around it.
Plans
Three plans, each one a real place to run a site.
Starter gets a genuine business website online. Developer adds the access a builder asks for once the project matters. Studio is the plan for people carrying several client sites at once.
Developer
Up to 5 sitesMore work. Better tools.
KSh 1,299 / month
For freelancers and developers managing several active websites or applications.
- Up to 5 websites or applications
- Git
- SSH
- Staging
- Databases
- Cron
- Logs
- Larger shared resource allowance
Studio
Up to 20 sitesKeep the client work together.
KSh 2,999 / month
For agencies and teams running a larger portfolio.
- Up to 20 websites or applications
- Team access
- Developer tools
- Larger shared resource allowance
- Priority support
- Additional backup options
| Allowance | Starter | Developer | Studio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hosted sites | 1 | Up to 5 | Up to 20 |
| Domain and SSL | Included | Included | Included |
| Backups and restore | On plan schedule | On plan schedule | Longer retention |
| Monitoring | Included | Included | Included |
| Git deploys | Not on this plan | Included | Included |
| SSH access | Not on this plan | Included | Included |
| Staging environment | Not on this plan | Included | Included |
| Databases, cron and queues | By application | Included | Included |
| Team access and permissions | Single owner | Single owner | Included |
| Support queue | Standard | Standard | Priority |
| CPU and memory | Shared pool | Shared pool, larger | Shared pool, largest |
Every plan sits on a shared resource pool. When one workload needs cores and memory held for it alone, it belongs in a private Stack Server pool rather than a fourth managed plan.
When one site outgrows the rest
One successful site shouldn’t move the whole agency.
Explore Stack ServersIf one application becomes significantly heavier than the rest, move that workload onto private Stack Server capacity while the quieter sites stay where they are.
That is the intended exit from a shared plan: the heavy thing gets its own reserved pool, and nothing else has to change.
The boundary
Managed does not mean mysterious.
A managed service should remove recurring upkeep without hiding the controls that still matter to you. The whole product in one split: we keep the environment running, you keep every decision inside the application.
None of what you keep is an upsell. It is simply the part of hosting a developer would never hand to somebody else.
StackHost runs
The environment around the application
- The managed hosting environment and its routine upkeep
- Domain routing and SSL certificates
- Backup scheduling and restore when you ask for one
- Health monitoring and the alerting that follows it
- Runtime versions, PHP settings and server-level caching
You keep
The application and every decision inside it
- The code, the content and the plugin or theme choices
- When a change goes out, and whether it goes out at all
- Database schema and application-level configuration
- Cron logic, queue workers and what they are for
- Access credentials for your own team
Good fit
Who this lane is for, and who should look one lane over.
The fastest way to a bad hosting decision is buying a product for the workload you hope to have next year. Choose for the one in front of you.
| What you are running | Where it belongs | Why |
|---|---|---|
| A business website that must simply stay online | Managed Hosting — Starter | SSL, backups and monitoring are the whole brief. Nobody needs to own an operating system. |
| A handful of client sites with different deadlines | Managed Hosting — Studio | One managed base, team access, and a place to add the next client without a new account. |
| A Laravel or PHP application you deploy from Git | Managed Hosting — Developer | Deploys, SSH, staging and cron without you maintaining the machine underneath. |
| A WooCommerce store that slows down at month-end | Start on Developer, then judge | If the bottleneck is the shared pool, a private Stack Server pool gives that one workload room of its own. |
| A specific operating system, or software we do not run | Cloud VPS | You need root. That is a different product, and pretending otherwise wastes your week. |
| Several workloads that each need reserved CPU and memory | Stack Servers | One private pool, shaped into as many machines as the workloads need. |
| Infrastructure you already own or rent | StackHost Edge | Compatible hardware can join the same model with an agreed boundary instead of a migration. |
A calmer first step
Your first serious site should not need a server manual.
Managed Hosting exists so the work can become real before the hosting gets complicated. Starter is a genuine entry point: one site, managed, with the first three months free. Sign up with a valid payment method and cancel anytime.
Where this lane leads