Law Firm Web Hosting

Law Firm Web Hosting Done Right

Your website is going to have many components including:

1. Domain: This is the unique web address of your law firm.
2. Name Servers & DNS: These are the records to point your website and email traffic to various web servers.
3. Website: This is the code, text, database, and files for your website.
4. Web Hosting: This is where your files are stored and secured for access.

Web hosting is the storing of your website files and database, so that it can be viewed 24 hours a day. That is the basic definition. But web hosting goes far beyond that. You need a host host that can manage your SSL. You need a host who can cache your site. You need a host that can auto backup, run security audits, manage DDOS attacks, and make your site load fast and secure.

You need a web host that can handle odd plugin crashes, demands of a fast-past law firm with same-hour updates, PHP updates, SSL fixes, DDOS prevention, bot checks, security audits and more.

Why is Law Firm Hosting Important?

Hosting is important for speed and security. You want a fast website. You want one that has 99.99% uptime. You want a secure website so that it can't be hacked.

Does Law Firm Web Hosting affect SEO? Namely Load Time.

Yes! Site speed is a known part of search algorithms. You need to have minimum scores (or max scores) on time to load, LCP, FCP, TTFB, and a whole slew of accronyms. Get a good web host to help with this.

What to Look for in a Law Firm Web Host?

You need a web host that will help with support. Not just in keeping the server running, but helping you update WordPress core and its plugins. You need a host that you can ask questions, make content changes, and take the burden off your law firm's day-to-day activities. You want a host that is easy to reach, available, and can promptly make updates.

Staging! You want Staging.

This is not a question, but a requirement. You must get a website that has staging as part of their plan. Whenever your site is getting updated, you should want to stage and test the site first. A staging server will allow you to edit the site and then go live with a few clicks.

Best Law Firm Web Hosts

We host almost 1,000 law firm websites. A vast majority of our websites with our parnter WPEngine. We have enterprise level accounts with them with advanced CDN, SSL, security audits, caching, and other features that your law firm needs. Yes, good hosting costs more. But it will save you massive amount of time in support. Most importantly it will save you headaches. If you do not wish to host with our team and WPEngine, then I would recommend LiquidWeb's managed WP hosting or Cloud Sites. I would recommend staying away from discount hosts, as your sites will be slower and have more issues.

Is it Easy to Migrate a Law Firm WebSite to a new Web Host?

If the site is built in Wordpress, then yes. Typically we can migrate a site in a few hours of work from start to finish. Now, some WP sites must be upgraded before migrating. We would need to update to the latest version of WP, the latest plugins, and latest PHP version. That can all be part of the migration process, which we take care of for your law firm.

Why Law Firm's Host with PaperStreet

We host nearly 1,000 law firm websites, from solos to AMLaw 100. There are hundreds of discount hosts available, we have tried them all. We get it; they are cheap. It may seem like a good deal. They have all regularly failed to meet our clients’ needs. 

There are hidden costs that are not included in discount hosting prices, such as upgrades, security, training, assistance, and the headaches of managing your platform. Sometimes a site loads slower as they overprovision their servers. Sometimes a site gets hacked because of a lack of proactive upgrades. Sometimes DNS records drop, causing a site to crash. But ultimately, something happened that wasted massive amounts of time and money for our clients. Instead we decided to build a platform that has no headaches and offers a better level of support. PaperStreet is your best choice because we save money, save time, and save you headaches. 

Law Firm Hosting with a Better Provider

We decided we could do it better. We decided to build our own high-end platform with fewer headaches.

We want our clients to have a single point of contact, a flat rate support plan, knowledgeable staff that solves issues in real-time, overall 99.999% reliability with a high-speed network, SSL installs, content delivery networks (CDN), staging, SendGrid, built in Cloudflare security, advanced caching, daily backups and the latest technology.

Save Money - Flat Rate Support with No Extra Costs

Our hosting is flat rate and includes support. You will save money as proactive updates are included to ensure security, speed, and reliability. Discount hosts will not help with platform updates, training, and plugin research. You pay extra for that and end up spending more for support on a yearly basis. 

Save Time - A Single Phone Call with No Phone Queues

If there is ever an issue, you can call us directly for a fast resolution. You do not have to wait 20 minutes to talk to an offshore support rep who may not be able to help directly. We have a support team that can answer any question and fix your problem, even on an emergency basis. We also help with all training, plugin research, and debugging. Again, those are services that are not offered by discount host providers. 

Save Headaches - 99.999% Reliability, Backups, Staging, SSL, Caching, & Security

Our hosting platform has 99.999% uptime (five-nines), which means that your website is only down a few minutes per month for routine server maintenance. We back up your website every day too in case of an issue. Our server centers offer SSLs, CDNs, Cloudflare DDoS prevention & security, advanced caching, daily security scans and more. We also offer staging servers for larger updates. We keep everything running, secure, and up-to-date so that you can concentrate on your business and not hosting.

What is Included in our Support Platform

Our plan is simply not just hosting. Yes, while our plan includes hosting, we do much more:

1. Training on Wordpress: We provide website seminars, publish material regularly to answer popular questions, and are always available to show you how to make an update.
2. Proactive Upgrades of WordPress: WordPress itself and WordPress plugins need to be updated on a regular basis. Our team proactively installs the latest versions of the software.
3. No Headaches: We make sure you focus on practicing law, not tracking down why a site is offline. We help with all the hosting acronyms, DNS, SSL, FTP, SSH, HOST A, Nameservers, and more.
4. Speed: We feel the need, the need for speed. WordPress installs run fast on our platform powered by Google. Our Cloudflare caching technology and CDN speed up file delivery. With certain hosting companies, you can run into slow sites. With us, the sites simply load fast and have 99.999% uptime.
5. Security: We keep your site safe. We limit disk write capabilities, have disallowed plugin lists, password security requirements, encrypted data, limit brute force login attempts, block spambots, automatic updates, and have secure backups.
6. Upgrades to WP and Plugins: You need to upgrade WordPress at minimum monthly and backup first. Sometimes upgrades lead to errors that need resolution. We do this all for you, saving time.
7. Staging: We are able to stage your website changes for review and then push live, which helps test out code before it goes live. It saves time in development too.
8. SSL for Free: Keeping your site secure is key to a good web presence. Free SSL is included with your website launch. No ongoing fees for any WordPress SSL.*
9. Experience: We are more than just a web host. We have developed over 500 true custom websites (not just using ThemeForest templates). We know how to resolve any WP code issue.
10. Recommendations: We make good recommendations for plugin use. Need a new tool? We can help find a plugin to meet your needs.
11. Monitoring: We keep the site stable. We monitor your website for downtime and errors. We have auto-provisioning if our Google servers ever fail.
12. CDN for Free: This speeds up your website. Content Delivery Network is included for Free. 
13. Page Performance Tips: Is your site acting slow? We have tools to help with performance.
14. Disallowed Plugins: We have a list of disallowed plugins that can harm your website or impact speed. We make a list of best practice plugins for your website.
15. Backups: Errors can happen. We have separate daily backup files for all clients in case of emergencies. We can restore files back many weeks in case of errors.
16. 24/7 Support: Call us anytime. We are available via phone, unlike hosts that only offer chat or email.
17. FreeMalware Cleanup: If your site is ever hacked, we will clean it for free. A $500+ insurance policy.
18. Sendgrid Free: We offer free form delivery at a 99.99% delivery with logging ($89 value per month).
19. Gravity Forms Elite License: Gravity Forms Elite License ($260 value per year).

About Website Maintenance

Some quick facts about our website support:

• We have been maintaining websites for more than 20 years.
• We have always provided same business-day updates. Clients often remark on how fast we work for them.
• We pride ourselves on making sure our clients' sites, once online, stay online and up to date.
• We can help with simple edits, complex additions or complete redesigns of websites.
• We offer hosting, email, assistance with domain names and website reporting features that help you track traffic and statistics.
• Our maintenance work is done on an hourly rate, prorated for only the time we actually spend working on your site. You don't waste money for time not spent on your website.
• Finally, we make sure our edits are done right the first time. We save you time and money because of our experience and passion for same-day service.

Key Benefits

1. Same-Day Updates, You Never Wait

   Don't wait days or weeks. We do same business-day edits.

2. 100% Right, So You can Focus on Your Business

   We know your time is valuable. That's why we make edits right 100% of the time.

3. Support When You Need It

   We have a support team that can answer any question and fix your problem the same day.

Fast, Accurate Service Solves Your Problems

We're There for You in an Emergency

• One of our clients called our emergency line at 2 a.m., panicked that his website was down. He had chosen to host his website with a different company, and that host had crashed. Although the problem was not ours to fix, we researched the issue immediately and advised him on how to contact his host, getting the site back up and running.
• One of our clients called in and told us that they had sent out a newsletter to a mailing list of about 500 people with the wrong URL written on it. We immediately wrote a redirect for it so that the URL in their newsletter worked.

We Provide Fast, Efficient Solutions

• A UK-based law firm needed to change its address everywhere on its website. This was immediately assigned and all changes were made that day.
• An IT company working for a west coast law firm contacted us regarding DNS record changes that affected their email and needed to be made that Friday. A developer stayed late to make sure the change was made.
• A client started receiving lots of automated spam through their contact form and forwarded us an example. We upgraded their e-mail script using our latest spam protections, which stopped the flood of junk mail.
• A client wanted to create an online job application page, with a noticeable link to it on the home page. The application form would e-mail different people, depending on the location chosen. The design team created an icon for the home page, and the developer used existing site elements to create a nice form that matched the site. The new page and form was created within 5 business days and launched the next week after some revisions.