Accounting firm hosting built for the week of the deadline.
An accountancy site is quiet for eleven months and then every client logs in during the same seven days, uploads a year of paperwork and expects the reminder emails to have arrived on time.
Everything a client portal asks of a host.
A marketing site that caches perfectly, wrapped around a document area that cannot be cached at all and is only busy when it matters most.
Client documents are not public files
Accounts, statements and identity documents live outside the publicly listable upload paths and are retrieved through signed links rather than a URL that works forever.
Portal pages excluded from the cache
Anything behind a client login is per-client by definition, so those URLs bypass the page cache while the guides, the service pages and the blog keep serving from the edge.
Deadline reminders that leave on time
A reminder five days before a filing date is worthless if it goes out on the day. Platform cron sends it at the hour it was scheduled for, regardless of traffic.
Headroom for the fortnight that counts
Load is concentrated into a couple of weeks a year. The plan is sized for the peak rather than for the eleven quiet months either side of it.
Uploads that do not fail at the wrong moment
Clients attach scanned years of paperwork, in one go, at eleven at night. Upload and execution limits are set for that rather than for a contact form.
Staging for a rate or rules update
Calculators and guidance pages change with legislation. Update them on a clone, check the numbers, then publish the set together.
Ready before the season, not during it.
Everything that goes wrong on an accountancy site goes wrong in the same fortnight. The useful work is confirming, before it starts, that the parts under pressure are configured for it.
- One-click admin login, no shared passwords
- Per-site resource and storage view
- Plugin and core updates with per-item status
- Restore any daily backup from the dashboard
Deadline week, everybody at once.
The public pages are cached and cheap. What decides how the week goes is the uncached portal and the upload path, both of which are only busy now.
What we change for an accountancy site
These differ from a standard WordPress site on the same plan, and each follows from a year's worth of load arriving in a fortnight.
| Setting | What we do | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Portal caching | Bypassed on every URL behind a client login | A client area is per-client, so a cached page hands one business another business's documents, and that is a disclosure rather than a performance bug. |
| Document storage | Outside the publicly listable upload paths, served through signed links | Statutory accounts and identity documents arrive through an ordinary upload field, which by default puts them in a directory a web server will happily serve. |
| Upload and execution limits | Raised for the client-area context | Clients send a year of scanned paperwork in a single attempt, and a limit sized for a contact form turns that into a failure they will not retry. |
| Reminder scheduling | Platform cron rather than visitor-triggered | Deadline reminders are only useful in advance, and a site that is quiet overnight will not fire a visitor-driven job until the morning it was warning about. |
| Capacity planning | Sized to the filing peak rather than the annual average | Averaging a year of traffic hides the only two weeks that decide whether the site works, because that is when every client arrives at once. |
Simple, transparent pricing.
Every plan includes free migration, daily backups, SSL and 24/7 support.
- 1 WordPress site
- 10 GB NVMe disk
- Free SSL
- Daily backups
- One-click deployment
- Support tickets
- 5 WordPress sites
- 50 GB NVMe disk
- Free SSL
- Daily backups
- One-click deployment
- Priority support tickets
- 20 WordPress sites
- 200 GB NVMe disk
- Free SSL
- Daily backups
- One-click deployment
- Dedicated support
Questions, answered.
Can the client portal be cached?
Where do uploaded accounts and statements live?
Clients say large uploads fail. What is happening?
Will deadline reminders go out overnight?
How should the plan be sized?
Be ready for the fortnight that decides the year.
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