Backlight provides fast, secure, fully managed WordPress hosting for photographers. We look after the servers, updates, security and backups, so your website stays quick, safe and online while you get on with shooting.
Want us to handle the day-to-day too? Our maintenance plans take care of everything else.
Zero Stress Hosting
Self-hosting a website can feel like bashing your head against a brick wall. There are always updates to run, backups to remember, strange errors popping up, and no one to call when something breaks.
With Backlight, you can let all of that go. Your site runs on a fast, secure, professionally managed platform, and we keep an eye on it around the clock. You carry on doing what you love, and we’ll take care of the rest.
Ridiculously Good Web Hosting
Enterprise-grade performance and security, without the enterprise price tag or the technical headaches.
Server-level caching with Nginx and Redis, so your portfolio loads in a flash for every visitor.
Your images and pages are delivered quickly wherever your clients are browsing from.
Your whole site is backed up every day, so if anything ever goes wrong, it can be put right.
The padlock in the browser bar that tells clients, and Google, that your site is safe and secure.
A web application firewall and regular malware scans keep the bad guys out of your website.
We keep watch on your site 24/7, with 99.9% uptime, so it's there whenever a client comes looking.
Fast hosting plus clean builds means sites that consistently score 90+ on Google PageSpeed.
No faceless ticket queues. When you need help, you'll be talking to someone who knows your site.
Hosting Plans
Enterprise-grade WordPress hosting for photographers, from just £15 a month. Pay annually and you get two months free.
Enterprise-grade WordPress hosting for your photography website, billed monthly.
The same great hosting, with two months free when you pay for the year.
A website needs regular care to stay fast, secure and working properly. Our maintenance plans take every bit of that off your hands.
WordPress, theme and plugin updates, tested and applied for you, so nothing breaks.
Ongoing security checks and backups, with fixes and restores taken care of if anything goes wrong.
New galleries, price changes, page tweaks. Send it over and we'll take care of it.
Maintenance Plans
All our enterprise-grade hosting, plus hands-on help with your website every month. Managed plans start from £49 a month.
Our enterprise-grade hosting, plus an hour of update and maintenance tasks on your website every month.
Got a bigger job on? Add extra update and maintenance time whenever you need it.
Happy Clients
“Not only is my website now much faster and easier to navigate, but it’s also simple for me to update. Lee’s work has brought a regular and steady stream of inquiries from Google, which has been a game-changer for my business.
What I appreciate most about working with Lee is his kindness and generosity with his knowledge and time. He’s always encouraging and nothing is too much trouble.”
Your Questions Answered
Backlight's enterprise-grade WordPress hosting starts from £15 a month, or £150 a year if you pay annually, which gives you two months free. Managed plans, which add an hour of updates and maintenance each month, start from £49 a month, with extra hours available at £49 an hour.
Managed WordPress hosting means the technical side of running your website is looked after for you. Instead of renting server space and handling everything yourself, a specialist takes care of performance, security, backups and server updates.
Yes. Page speed and reliability are both signals Google uses, and a slow or frequently unavailable website loses visitors before they ever see your work. Fast, secure hosting gives your SEO a solid foundation.
Hosting is where your website lives: the fast, secure servers that deliver it to your visitors. Maintenance is the ongoing care of the website itself, such as WordPress and plugin updates, security checks and content changes.
Your site is monitored around the clock and backed up daily, so problems are spotted quickly and your website can be restored. And you can always talk to a real person who knows your site.
