ChurchThemes, LLC was renamed Sunday Pixels, LLC earlier this month in order to launch ChurchHost as a brand that compliments ChurchThemes. You can think of these as siblings with Sunday Pixels as their parent. This restructuring also opens up a lot of future possibilities.
We launched ChurchHost because over time we have become dissatisfied with our former hosting recommendations. SiteGround was our primary choice (see our hosting survey results) but they’re not what they used to be. Having to pay extra every month just to be able to download your site’s backups? Come on. We also want to be able to provide you with a more complete church website solution. Now you can deal with the same people for virtually every aspect of your web presence.
What makes ChurchHost different from other hosts? Read on…
What Makes ChurchHost Different
Quicker, easier hands-on support
Experiencing problems with your ChurchThemes theme or plugin? We can log right in and take care of things for you without having to ask you to send us WordPress admin, hosting control panel and/or FTP details. Secure and quick.
Try without leaving your host
We’ll make a copy of your site for you to test on our servers at a temporary URL and refund 100% with no questions asked if you want to stick with your old host.
No pricing gimmicks
No asterisks or tiny gray text hidden at the bottom. No surprise price hikes. We don’t offer add-ons that you don’t actually need. And we definitely don’t charge you for downloading your own site’s backups. Crystal clear pricing and yes we’ll pro-rate a refund if you pay for a year in advance and decide to leave.
Incredible speed with LiteSpeed Enterprise
We license the Enterprise version of the LiteSpeed web server. Combining this with Redis object caching and the LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin is the ultimate performance combination. It’s the only plugin that conveniently interfaces with both LiteSpeed Enterprise and Redis.
Fast and secure containerized hosting
Each site is isolated on the server in its own “box”, almost like a Virtual Private Server (VPS). This serves two purposes: 1) Protect your site in the case another site on the server is hacked, 2) Preserve your site’s speed in case another site on the server is attempting to use an inordinate amount of resources (only their site slows).
Fewer sites per server
We do not overload our servers with customers. Plenty of CPU and memory is allocated for each site so you don’t experience slowdown. This also means less issues as a server with many sites can be problematic. We can do this in a cost-effective manner due to the per-site pricing model of the Enhance control panel. With cPanel’s ever-increasing per-server pricing, we’d need to load hundreds of sites on a server just to keep costs down. And that’s exactly what many hosts do.
True managed WordPress
It seems like “every” host these days offers “managed WordPress” service. The definition is blurry but we consider it to include technical support for WordPress issues, something not every host will help with. Hosting, WordPress and ChurchThemes technical support all in one place. Convenient.
No security or backup plugin required
Included are daily offsite backups, a Web Application Firewall (WAF), real-time intrusion detection, WordPress vulnerability protection, real-time IP blocklist, optimized ModSecurity rules, PHP hardening, malware scanning and automatic repair attempts, bad bot blocking, free automatic SSL, HTTPS enforcement, HTTP/3 protocol, brute force prevention, WordPress auto-updates, DNSSEC and 5 Gbps DDoS protection.
No false “Unlimited” promises
We don’t say “Unlimited Storage” or “Unlimited Sites” because it would be a lie. Storage can be limited by capping the number of files. Sites can be limited by allowing only a certain amount of CPU and memory usage across all your sites. See what I mean? Our plans provide an appropriate amount of storage for the vast majority of church sites with (sermon archives) and offer storage upgrades for the few that need it. We also allocate CPU and memory per site, not per account.
Optional email hosting
A minority of churches want email hosting with their web hosting. Many “managed WordPress” hosts don’t offer email. We offer it on our second plan in order to keep the entry plan at a lower cost for churches not needing email.
Try ChurchHost Today
There’s a lot more than what you read above but these are things that differentiate ChurchHost from many other hosts. Please give us a zero-risk try. If you’ve been happy with ChurchThemes then I think you will be happy with our hosting as well.