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
Ace High Casino is a family-owned casino event company based in the Twin Cities that has been putting on casino-themed events for over 30 years. The events they put on are a ton of fun and they go above and beyond to make sure everyone has a good time. We had already been working with them for a bit when … 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
If you’re here, more than likely you are trying to fix an SEO issue identified on your WordPress website by an SEO Tool like SEMrush or ahrefs. During an audit of your site, they probably mentioned that you have “Nofollow attributes in outgoing internal links”. Digging deeper, you may have realized that these “nofollow” links are coming from your comment … Read More
We find often that we need to restore WordPress core files manually. Maybe we suspect that a hack has taken hold of them and made changes, or perhaps they have somehow become corrupted. Regardless, it’s something I often discuss doing in other posts, and I figured I’d put together a quick tutorial. This video walks you through it step-by-step but … Read More
Recently we’ve seen a few cases of a new WordPress hack which manages to display Google ads on every page of a website, but only for logged-out users. You may also experience other mysterious symptoms such as pages being moved to the trash. While it’s not particularly malicious, it’s still annoying and can undermine the credibility of your organization, in … Read More
We’ve been dealing with an uptick in hacked WordPress websites lately, and they all appear to have the same symptoms. If you’ve seen these symptoms, you have probably been hacked too, unfortunately. Luckily, we will outline not only how this particular hack works but also the steps you can take to resolve it. But fair warning: most of these steps … 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
