Earlier this year, we completed a mid-sized acquisition of a WordPress hosting portfolio with roughly 70 active domains. In this post, I’ll walk through how the entire process worked, from initial conversations to final transition, and highlight what sellers can realistically expect when exiting a hosting business. This is based on a real acquisition from start to finish. The goal … Read More
You’re the owner of a website hosting company and you’ve been seeing your industry change dramatically as AI becomes more powerful and prevalent. Maybe you’ve been worried about how these changes (real or imagined) might impact the value of your company. Perhaps you’ve even been thinking about exiting the industry and are considering if now is the right time to … Read More
Most small business owners understand that they need to have website hosting and it makes sense that when they first, they gravitate towards the most basic, cheapest options available. Many are not aware that there are far better options out there for most businesses that cover more of their bases. In this post, I’m going to highlight the differences between … Read More
We are thrilled to announce that we have acquired the website hosting services from Taylors Falls-based company, The Bitworks, Inc. This marks another step in PageCrafter’s ongoing strategy of acquiring WordPress hosting and website management portfolios from IT firms and independent agencies. Contact and Reasons for Sale The Bitworks founder, Matt Sonnentag, originally reached out to us in early 2025 … Read More
Network Solutions is a lot like a physical bank. Everyone hates it and it’s way overpriced, but you find yourself forced to go there every so often because it’s where you set up your account in the 90s and it’s too much work to move now. What’s more: this is exactly what they are counting on. Network Solutions, along with … Read More
If you’re thinking about changing your domain name for your existing WordPress website, you’ll need to follow some basic steps to make sure you do it right. In addition to causing delays and headaches, if you don’t do things right you could permanently ruin your search engine rankings and cause a variety of other disastrous consequences. In this guide, we’ll … Read More
I recently came across an interesting issue with a client website which was hosted at GoDaddy. They couldn’t seem to add or save featured images to their blog posts. When loading the media library, everything loaded extremely slowly. It seemed you could add a featured image, it was just extremely slow. The image wouldn’t quite load right but it seemed … Read More
If you’re here, you’re probably tired of how slow your WordPress website hosted with Godaddy is. Perhaps it takes forever to even start loading the page when visiting, or maybe the backend moves like a snail, or perhaps just everything is slow. I’m here to tell you: you’re not alone! The quality of your website hosting is the #1 factor that determines … Read More
You’ve worked hard for years to build up a respectable WordPress hosting company and now you are thinking about settling down into a life of retirement. What do you do? Unlike if you were a salaried employee at a large company, you can’t simply accept your retirement package and move on with your life. You have clients that still need … Read More
Hosting WordPress websites is a lot of work. If you’re here, you already know that. From dealing with plugin conflicts to server issues and load times, it may feel like a losing battle. If you’re a website designer, you probably started hosting websites thinking it would be an easy and natural addition to your existing skillset. You already designed the … Read More
