Choose Your Level of Independence.

Tier One

COLONIST

The secure foundation. You build. We protect.

30-day money-back guarantee. Founding pricing: annual billing only, 3-year price lock.

What's Included

• 100GB Secure Storage — Your websites, databases, and files in a single allocation. No artificial limits on accounts, domains, or databases — only your storage quota applies. Additional storage: $5/month per 50GB block. Clients consistently exceeding 500GB: Sovereign conversation.
• MariaDB + PostgreSQL + Redis — All three available within your quota. One database or twenty — same price. No upsells on database access.
• Roundcube Webmail — Professional webmail for your domain. You manage your own accounts. We keep the server running. Want to keep using Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, or Zoho? Go ahead — your email is your business.
• Minuteman Protection™ — Included — Our full security stack at no extra charge.
• 14-Day Rolling Backups — Included — Daily automated backups. 14 recovery points. Restoration available on request.
• 1 Free Domain — One .com, .org, or .net for the first year. Additional domains available at cost plus a small management fee.
• SSH Access — SCP and rsync — Secure file transfer via SSH. We do not support FTP. FTP transmits credentials in plain text — it has no place on secure infrastructure.

Colonist Add-Ons

Private Settlement™ is not available on Colonist. WordPress setup and management are Pioneer features. See our blog for our recommended WordPress setup guide.

Colonist Is Not Right For You If:

Tier Two — Most Popular

PIONEER

The full stack. We build AND protect.

30-day money-back guarantee. Founding pricing: annual billing only, 3-year price lock.

What's Included

300GB Secure Storage — Three times the Colonist allocation. Same flat add-on pricing when you need more.

Everything in Colonist, Plus:

Managed WordPress — Full Service. We handle WordPress from the ground up:

• Security-hardened installation
• Core updates managed by us
• Plugin updates managed by us
• Performance optimization
• Staging environment
• Security monitoring via Minuteman Protection™
• Malware scanning on every file change

You manage your content. We manage everything else.

• Minuteman Protection™ — Included — Full security stack, same protection as Colonist.
• 14-Day Rolling Backups — Included
• 1 Free Domain — One .com, .org, or .net for the first year.
• SSH Access — SCP and rsync — No FTP.

Add-On: Private Settlement™

Break free from Google and Microsoft.

Private Settlement™ is your organization's own Nextcloud instance — not shared, not multi-tenant. Yours. Managed entirely by our team.

We are your Nextcloud administrators. Updates, configuration, backups, and maintenance are our responsibility. Your team just uses it.

The privacy pitch: Google Workspace for 10 users costs $70-140/month. Microsoft 365 for 10 users costs $60-130/month. And your data is on their servers, subject to their terms, indexed for their purposes. Pioneer + Private Settlement™ costs $128-134/month. Your data is on our servers. Subject to your terms.

The 10-user conversation: If your team grows beyond 10 users, or if you need video conferencing, that's a Sovereign conversation. Many of our best Sovereign clients started as Pioneer + Private Settlement™ clients. The transition is seamless — we already know your infrastructure.

Add-On: Content Assistant™

Small content updates, managed by our team. Pricing: monthly retainer, quoted based on expected update volume.

Included in Content Assistant™:

• Text and image updates
• Bio and team page updates
• WooCommerce product additions and updates
• Basic page edits
• Monthly maintenance report

Not included (requires separate quote):

• New page design or development
• New features or functionality
• Redesigns or custom development

Content Assistant™ is also available on Sovereign plans — quoted as part of the overall engagement.

Pioneer Add-Ons

Pioneer Is Not Right For You If:

Tier Three

SOVEREIGN

Your infrastructure. Your rules. Completely.

Pricing: Custom quote — 1-year commitment required. Founding clients: 15% off year 1.

What's Included

Dedicated Server — Specced to Your Needs. No shared resources. No neighbors. A server built for your workload — CPU, RAM, and storage specced to your actual requirements. Want your server in your state? We do that. Sovereign clients can specify geographic placement within the United States.

Fully Managed Infrastructure

• OS installation, hardening, and ongoing updates
• Security patching and vulnerability management
• Performance tuning as your usage evolves
• Database administration (MariaDB + PostgreSQL)
• SSL certificate lifecycle management
• DNS management
• Backup strategy designed around your requirements

Custom Tech Stack. Your applications dictate your stack. Laravel, WordPress, custom PHP, Node.js, Python. Any database configuration. Any PHP version. Any application server. We build it, manage it, and keep it running.

Application Deployment. Complex multi-app environments with shared databases, API layers, and custom caching architectures. We've built and migrated all of it.

Full Nextcloud — Unlimited Users

• Unlimited user accounts
• Files, Calendar, Contacts, Mail
• Nextcloud Talk with High-Performance Backend (real video conferencing, properly resourced)
• Your team can be their own Nextcloud administrators
• Custom app installation

Apache Hop — Data Pipeline Integration

This is where Sovereign becomes something no standard hosting company can offer.

If your team uploads files and someone manually processes them into a database — we automate it.

We have processed hundreds of millions of records through pipelines we built and maintain. We know what "data at scale" means — not as a concept, but as infrastructure we run every day.

Use cases we've built:

• Property record ingestion (158M+ records)
• Voter roll processing across 44 states
• Document batch classification
• Financial data import and reconciliation
• Any recurring file-to-database workflow

MCP-Connected Infrastructure. Sovereign servers can be configured as MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers — connecting your data and applications to AI workflows while keeping everything on infrastructure you control. Your data stays on your server. We're building this. Talk to us if you're thinking about it.

Minuteman Protection™ — Enterprise Edition. Full security stack tuned to your applications and threat profile. Custom firewall rules. Custom WAF policies. Custom monitoring thresholds. Dedicated security reporting.

Content Assistant™ — Quoted. Small content updates and WooCommerce management quoted as part of your Sovereign engagement.

24/7 Emergency Response

• 4-hour response SLA for critical issues
• 1-hour response for complete outages
• Monthly infrastructure health reports
• Direct access to our engineering team

Our Commitment and Liability

We are responsible for: Infrastructure uptime. OS and server security. Backup integrity. Patching. Everything we build.

We are not responsible for: Application vulnerabilities from third-party code. Security incidents originating from within your application layer. Data loss from application errors.

In 25 years of hosting infrastructure, every security incident we've encountered originated from an application vulnerability — not the server. That's why we offer hardened setups for every Sovereign deployment. When we build it, we stand behind it.

Sovereign Is Right For You If:

Not sure which tier fits? Talk to us about a Sovereign engagement, check our FAQ for common questions, or review our Domain & Storage Policy for details on domains and storage limits.