Yes. Umbraco Cloud is the right home for most sites, and I offer it managed at £99 a month all-in on the Starter plan. But not every build fits Cloud: some have integrations that need server-level control, some inherited architectures would be costly to reshape, and some organisations simply want their site on dedicated infrastructure. For those I host on my own servers at £149 per site per month. The service standard is identical on both: security patches within 48 hours of release, backups verified by test restores, and one person who knows both the server and the CMS answering when something needs attention. I will recommend whichever option genuinely fits your site, since I charge a flat fee either way.
Umbraco Cloud earns its popularity: environments, deployments and upgrades come largely solved, which is why my default recommendation is managed Umbraco Cloud at £99 a month all-in on Starter, with bigger plans passed through at Umbraco's own price plus the same £99 service fee. But Cloud is an opinionated platform, and opinionated platforms have edges. Sites bump into them with unusual integrations, custom background services, specific data residency requirements, or simply an inherited codebase built around assumptions Cloud does not share.
Hosting with me directly costs £149 per site per month and removes those edges. Full control over the server configuration means legacy dependencies, scheduled jobs, odd third-party connections and non-standard deployments all have somewhere to live. It is also often the pragmatic first home for a rescued site: get it somewhere stable and controlled first, modernise it second.
The infrastructure differs; the discipline does not. Patches within 48 hours of release, backups proven by test restores rather than dashboard ticks, monitoring, and certificates handled before they expire. And in both cases the person running the platform is the same person who can read the application logs and understand them, which collapses the usual blame gap between host and developer into one phone call.
Tell me what your site does and where it lives now, and I will tell you which home fits and what moving would involve. Because the managed fee is flat on both options, I have no reason to steer you anywhere except where your site will run best. Prices for both sit on the pricing page.
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