What does cheap web hosting actually cost an agency?
Cheap web hosting costs more than its sticker price once you account for the hours your team spends managing it. A $3 to $10 per month shared hosting plan covers the server and little else: no proactive updates, no content edits, and support that treats your client's downtime as one ticket among thousands. For an agency reselling websites, that gap becomes your problem, because your client called you, not the host. Flux Care Plans fold hosting and human help into one monthly line item, starting at $29/month for managed hosting, so the maintenance work that budget hosting pushes back onto you is already handled. You set your own resale price on top, which means the plan pays for itself and adds margin instead of quietly draining your team's time.
Is cheap WordPress hosting good enough for client sites?
Cheap WordPress hosting is fine for a personal blog and risky for a client site you're responsible for. WordPress blog hosting on a budget plan leaves plugin updates, core updates, and security hardening to whoever remembers to log in, and on a busy agency that's nobody until something breaks. Flux builds client sites custom-coded rather than stacked on fragile plugin setups, and hosts them on managed infrastructure where updates and uptime are our job, not a checkbox you forgot. If a client insists on WordPress, we can work to spec under Custom Builds and still deliver it under your brand. The point isn't that WordPress is bad, it's that cheap WordPress hosting quietly transfers the maintenance risk to you and shows up as emergencies you didn't budget for.
What's the difference between web hosting services and a care plan?
Web hosting services rent you server space; a care plan rents you server space plus a team that keeps the site working. Standard hosting stops at storage, bandwidth, and uptime. Flux's three tiers go further: hosting-only at $29/month keeps the site live on managed infrastructure, Lite Care at $97/month adds small content edits like swapping copy or updating a phone number, and Pro at $297/month covers request-based work for clients who need ongoing changes. Each tier is white-label, so your client experiences it as your agency's ongoing support. That's the practical divide: raw hosting leaves the work to you, and a care plan turns post-launch maintenance into a resellable service you own the relationship for.
How do I resell hosting to clients without losing margin?
Resell hosting by pricing the care plan as a recurring line in your client contract and marking it up to whatever your market bears. Flux charges you $29, $97, or $297 per month depending on tier, and you set the client-facing price above that, keeping the spread. Because every plan is month-to-month with 30 days' notice to cancel, you're not committing to long contracts to unlock those rates, and you're not stuck paying for a client who churns. The client is billed by you, under your brand, and never learns Flux exists. That's how recurring hosting becomes a margin stream instead of a cost you absorb, and it turns the one-time website sale into monthly revenue you keep.
Who keeps the client and the site if I switch away from cheap hosting?
You keep the client and the site stays with the client through your agency, always. Flux never contacts, poaches, or rebrands your clients, and nothing is held hostage: we host on managed infrastructure or hand the site off if you'd rather run it elsewhere. That's the honest answer to the fear most agencies have about handing hosting to a backend partner. Care Plans run behind the scenes or client-facing under your brand with no visible handoff, so there's no moment where a client discovers a third party. If you ever want out, cancel with 30 days' notice and take the site with you. Cheap hosting locks in with cheap terms; managed care with Flux stays yours because the whole model depends on you keeping the client.