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CopperPress
Hosting for publishers

Most hosts stop at the server. We keep going.

Publisher hosting on our own hardware, run by people who know publishing infrastructure. A plugin conflict, a broken form, a layout that slipped — we fix it, and it is not billed. From $300 a month, migration handled, and you prepare nothing.

  • Our own hardware
  • Migration handled
  • A Slack channel, not a ticket queue
Sound familiar?
  • The company that built your site stopped answering. Nobody's touched it in a year.
  • Your site scores 50 out of 100, and your server bill keeps climbing anyway.
  • Your host calls a broken form "a WordPress issue, not a hosting issue" — so it stays broken.

You shouldn't need a technical person on staff to get a headline fixed. That is the job we took.

What you get

All of it, on every plan.

What's included

  • If something breaks, we fix it — not billed, and not on a clock
  • Off-site daily backups, malware scanning and a firewall on every site
  • Core, plugin and security updates, applied and verified
  • SSL issued and renewed for you, with Cloudflare in front of it
  • Caching tuned layer by layer for publishing traffic — and never on admin pages, so your editors always see live content
  • Uptime checked from outside our own network, so an outage reaches us even when the server can't report it itself
  • WordPress cron and scheduled posts watched — a story that misses its publish time gets caught
  • File permissions and integrity checked continuously, drift repaired, anything unusual flagged
  • Server errors and 5xx spikes surfaced within minutes, not at your next check-in

New work — a feature, a redesign, an integration — is scoped and quoted before it starts, at $200/hr. Fixing what broke is never new work.

What it costs

Priced to your size. Not to how much help you need.

Every plan is the same service — the same backups, the same monitoring, the same people in the same Slack channel. What changes is the size of the operation we are running it for. Pay twelve months up front and two of them are free.

Under $150k a year

Community title

$300/mo

A single local or hyperlocal title — one newsroom, a steady rhythm, and nobody on staff who wants to think about servers.

  • Everything on the list above
  • Capacity for a single title

$150k–$300k a year

Regional daily

$500/mo

An established daily or regional title. Real deadlines, real traffic, and a newsroom that notices within minutes when something breaks.

  • Everything in Community title
  • Capacity planned for sustained daily traffic

Over $300k a year

Regional brand

$750/mo

More than one property, advertisers and events riding on uptime, and more people who need an answer today.

  • Everything in Regional daily
  • Capacity for multiple properties

Before

48/100

PageSpeed on the publisher's old host, with a server bill that kept climbing.

After — on CopperPress infrastructure

91/100

Same site. Same content. Different hardware — and different people running it.

Streets of Toronto, tested 28 July 2026 — real result, not a projection.

Running a bigger operation?

You don't want just hosting — you want the whole department. Hosting already sits inside a CTO engagement, alongside strategy, developers and AI enablement.

Questions

The question every publisher asks before moving.

Am I locked into a contract?
No — there is no long-term lock-in. Hosting is billed month to month, and either side can end the agreement with 60 days' written notice; an email is enough. If your account is paid in full through the termination date, hosting stays active for a 30-day transition period afterwards. And we provide a complete export of your site and database within 14 days of termination, regardless of the state of your account.

Move your site

Tell us what you are running now.

What you are on today and what it costs. We will tell you plainly whether we can do better — and say so if we cannot.

We will not migrate anything without walking you through it first.

Move your site

Hosting should be the boring part.

It should be the thing you never think about. Tell us what you are on today, and we will tell you plainly whether we can do better — and say so if we cannot.

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