Membership hosting that stays fast behind the login.
A membership site inverts the usual hosting assumption. Most of your traffic is signed in, personalised and uncacheable, which changes what actually has to be quick.
Everything a paywall depends on.
The parts that decide whether a member stays are the parts a generic host does not think about.
Downloads that stay behind the paywall
Files served through your membership plugin's access checks rather than sitting on a guessable URL in the uploads directory. A cancelled member loses access to the file, not just to the page linking it.
Renewal day does not take the site down
Billing webhooks and renewal cron arrive together at the start of a cycle. PHP workers are sized for that burst, so a retry storm from your payment provider does not become downtime for everyone else.
Access checks that stay cheap
Every membership plugin stores levels and expiries in usermeta, read on every request. Those reads come from memory, so query time does not climb as the member list grows.
Members never see each other's pages
Public pages come from the edge cache. Anything behind a login is generated per request, so no member is ever served a page rendered for somebody else.
Undo a bad access rule
Membership configuration is where the expensive mistakes happen. Daily backups mean a rule that locked everyone out is a restore, not a support queue.
The failures members actually notice.
Members rarely complain about page speed. They complain about being locked out, charged twice, or unable to download what they paid for - and all three are infrastructure as much as configuration.
- Webhook traffic that lands during renewal runs
- Downloads that respect cancellation immediately
- One-click login to reproduce a member's problem
- Restore to the moment before a rule changed
Fast where it cannot be cached.
A brochure site is mostly cache hits. A membership site is mostly cache misses by design, so speed is decided by the layers underneath the cache.
What we change for membership sites
Every row here follows from one fact: the pages that matter are the ones a cache is not allowed to serve.
| Setting | What we do | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Full-page cache | Public pages only; every logged-in request bypasses | Serving one member the page rendered for another is the single failure a paywall cannot survive. |
| PHP workers | Sized from the plan's CPU allocation | Renewal runs and payment-provider retries arrive as a burst at the start of a billing cycle. |
| Uploads | Delivered through the plugin's access rules | A file URL that works without a session means the paywall is decorative. |
| Object cache | On by default | Membership level and expiry are read from usermeta on every single request a member makes. |
| Backups | Daily, restorable from the dashboard | Access rules are configuration, and configuration mistakes are how members lose what they paid for. |
Simple, transparent pricing.
Every plan includes free migration, daily backups, SSL and 24/7 support.
- 1 WordPress site
- 10 GB NVMe disk
- Free SSL
- Daily backups
- One-click deployment
- Support tickets
- 5 WordPress sites
- 50 GB NVMe disk
- Free SSL
- Daily backups
- One-click deployment
- Priority support tickets
- 20 WordPress sites
- 200 GB NVMe disk
- Free SSL
- Daily backups
- One-click deployment
- Dedicated support
Questions, answered.
Which membership plugins work here?
What happens when all renewals run at once?
Can members share a download link?
Does the members area get any caching at all?
Host the members area like it matters.
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