A research site gets cited. That single fact outranks every other requirement, because a link printed in a published paper cannot be corrected afterwards.
Publications, datasets and project pages that were linked from a paper years ago and still have to resolve today.
Every URL change is captured as a permanent redirect and retained indefinitely, because the citation in a printed paper is never going to be amended.
Multi-gigabyte data files are served from the edge with resume support, so a transfer that drops on a university connection continues rather than starting over.
Author, year and project filters run on indexed fields, so a group with two decades of output does not have a slow publications page as the one most outsiders land on.
Project sites are archived rather than deleted once funding ends, so the outputs stay available and citable after the team has dispersed.
Publication and profile editing sits behind roles that exclude theme and plugin access, which is what keeps a site shared between people who each touch it twice a year working.
The failure specific to a research site is invisible: a redesign three years ago broke a URL a paper still points at, and nobody has followed that link since.
A group's publication list grows in one direction only and is the page most outside visitors arrive on. It is also the query most likely to have been written carelessly.
These are the settings that differ from a standard WordPress site on the same plan. Each follows from the site being referenced by documents that cannot be revised.
| Setting | What we do | Why |
|---|---|---|
| URL changes | Captured as permanent redirects and retained indefinitely | A citation printed in a journal is fixed forever, which makes the obligation to keep resolving it forever as well. |
| Dataset downloads | Edge-served with resume support, off the PHP workers | A multi-gigabyte file pulled through PHP holds a worker for the length of the transfer, and research downloads are slow by their nature. |
| Publication queries | Indexed on author, year and project | Two decades of output makes the publications page the largest query on the site and usually the most visited one as well. |
| Ended projects | Archived in place rather than removed | Deleting a finished project's pages breaks every citation pointing at it, which is the opposite of what the funding conditions asked for. |
| Editor roles | Content rights without theme or plugin access | A site edited twice a year by several different researchers lasts considerably longer when none of them is able to install anything. |
Every plan includes free migration, daily backups, SSL and 24/7 support.
Free migration, redirects kept indefinitely, and datasets that download without a worker.