// Websites. Managed. Business. Growing.

We run your website, so you don't have to.

Pay the monthly hosting and we'll work with you on the rest. We host your site in New Zealand, keep it updated, backed up and secure, and keep an eye on the parts most people forget about until they break: DNS, domain renewals and site health.

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Hosting from $25/mo, managed websites from $55/mo · all + GST · no lock-in contracts.

The deal

You pay for the hosting. We work with you on the rest.

One monthly fee covers the server and, on our managed plans, the care of the website on it too. You don't need to know what a DNS record is or when your domain is due — that's our job. You decide how involved you want to be.

  1. Pick a monthly plan

    Hosting only, or hosting with us looking after the site. Prices exclude 15% GST, billed monthly, no setup fee. Compare plans →

  2. We take your site on

    We move it to our Auckland servers, check it over, and set up the backups, monitoring, DNS and domain watch.

  3. We run it with you

    Email us changes any time, or have a regular Teams or Zoom catch-up each month to run through what you need.

What usually turns out to be wrong

Most website problems aren't the problem people think they are.

Twenty-plus years of building and rescuing New Zealand websites means we've seen the same handful of causes over and over. Here are three of them, in case you recognise yours.

A slow store usually isn't short of server. Most WooCommerce sites that crawl under load are running a plugin that queries the whole product table on every page render. That's a two-hour fix, not a hosting upgrade — and moving to a bigger plan would have hidden it for another six months.
"The site went down" is usually a certificate, a DNS record or a domain. Nine times in ten the server never stopped. An SSL certificate expired, a DNS record was edited by someone who has since left, or the domain lapsed because the renewal email went to an old address. We watch all three so it doesn't happen to you.
The enquiry form broke a month ago. Contact forms fail silently after plugin updates — the page still says "thank you", the mail never sends. Nobody notices until someone rings to ask why they were ignored. We test forms after every update for exactly this reason.

Data sovereignty

Your data lives in New Zealand. Full stop.

Every file, database and backup sits in our Auckland datacentre, on New Zealand soil, under New Zealand law. That's not a marketing line — it changes what happens on a bad day.

When the international link goes dark, you stay up. New Zealand's connection to the world runs through a handful of undersea cables. If they're cut or congested, offshore-hosted sites vanish for NZ visitors. Yours won't — it's served from here, to here.
NZ law, NZ jurisdiction. Data hosted offshore is subject to the laws of wherever it lands. Keeping it onshore keeps it under the Privacy Act 2020 and NZ jurisdiction — simpler for you, safer for your customers.
Faster for the people who matter. Your customers are here. Serving them from Auckland instead of Sydney, Singapore or Oregon means single-digit ping and noticeably faster pages.
Backups onshore too. Plenty of "NZ hosts" quietly back up to overseas clouds. Our backups stay in New Zealand as well — sovereignty that covers the copies, not just the original.

Results

What this looks like on a real site

We mostly fix the problems other developers don't want to touch — software, engineering and server issues alike. Most of it is for clients we've agreed not to name, but we can still show you the numbers and the reasoning.

A 4,000-SKU store, on shared hosting in Sydney

Category pages went from 8.4 seconds to 1.6 — without a bigger server

A filter plugin was loading every product on every category view. Rewriting the query and adding an object cache did most of the work; moving to Auckland did the rest.

8.4s → 1.6sCategory page load
−$0Extra spend on hardware

12 sites, one agency, one developer who'd stopped replying

Access recovered and everything moved in nine days

No control panel logins, no documentation, three sites still on PHP 5.6. We rebuilt access through the registrar, migrated in batches and brought every site onto a supported PHP version.

12 / 12Sites recovered
0Minutes of planned downtime

Read the full case notes, and how we anonymise them

Our story

Part of Primal Media Limited since 2014

KiwiHostNZ.com was taken over by Primal Media Limited in 2014 — an Auckland web development and software integration company building for New Zealand businesses since 2003. That means your website isn't run by a faceless reseller: it's operated by the same developers who build, maintain and rescue websites every day.

2003Primal Media Limited founded in Auckland
2014KiwiHostNZ.com taken over by Primal Media
TodayManaged NZ websites for businesses nationwide

More about who we work with — and who we don't →

Get in touch

Tell us what you're running.

A few questions, and you'll get a straight answer about what's involved before you commit to anything. If we're not the right fit we'll say so, and usually point you somewhere better.

Contact us

[email protected] · Mon–Fri 9–5 NZT