Media Lion Cloud
Managed hosting for agencies

Premium hosting for every client site. One panel, one bill.

Media Lion Cloud runs your clients’ WordPress, Laravel and static sites, with their deploys, backups, mailboxes, DNS and updates, fully managed from one panel. The care of a managed host, without stitching five vendors together.

  • Runs Media Lion’s own client sites today
  • Plans from $25 a site
  • First month free
  • HourlyDatabase dumps and file snapshots for every site, kept off the server.
  • ~1 minTo bring back a deleted post and its images in our first restore drill.
  • 5 minBetween uptime checks on every site, with one alert when it breaks and one when it clears.
  • Zero downtimeDeploys swap releases in one step, and can roll back on their own if the health check fails.

Measured on the panel that runs Media Lion’s own client sites.

One place

Everything a client site needs, under one login.

Each site has one page with its hosting, deploys, backups, mail, DNS and upkeep as sections of it. Nothing to stitch together, nothing to reconcile at the end of the month.

  • Hosting

    • WordPress, Laravel and static sites
    • PHP 8.2 to 8.4, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Valkey
    • Certificates issued and renewed for you
  • Deploys

    • Push to deploy from GitHub
    • Zero-downtime releases, one-click roll back
    • Staging and per-branch previews
  • Backups

    • Hourly snapshots off the server
    • Restore files, database or both
    • A weekly drill that proves it works
  • Mail

    • Mailboxes and aliases on the client’s domain
    • Webmail, IMAP and SMTP
    • MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC checked nightly
  • DNS and edge

    • Records written on create, move and cutover
    • Cloudflare proxy, cache rules, login limits
    • Redirects managed per site
  • Upkeep

    • WordPress updates that undo themselves on failure
    • Known-vulnerability checks
    • Uptime, certificates, disk and memory alerts
  • Laravel in depth

    • Queues, Horizon, scheduler, Reverb, Octane
    • Failed jobs and exceptions on one page
    • Artisan and WP-CLI from the browser
  • Team

    • Roles, invitations, two-factor sign-in
    • An audit log of every change
    • SFTP and database access per site

In place of the managed WordPress plan, the app platform, the backup plugin, the mail host, the uptime monitor, the DNS console.

Priced per site

Priced per site. Nothing metered.

No charge for visits, bandwidth or storage tiers. The bill moves only when you add a site or step up a plan, and you know by how much before you do.

Servers, patching and hardeningIncluded
Hourly backups and restoresIncluded
Certificates, CDN and the edgeIncluded
Traffic and bandwidthUnmetered
How it compares

The polish of a managed host. The reach of a full platform.

Agencies usually choose between a managed host that only does WordPress, a server panel that leaves the upkeep to you, or an app platform that does not run WordPress. This is the fourth option.

Managed WordPress hostsServer panelsApp platformsMedia Lion Cloud
Sites it runsWordPressPHP apps you configureApps, rarely WordPressWordPress, Laravel and static, side by side
Mail on the client’s domainA separate providerA separate providerA separate providerMailboxes, aliases and webmail, in the same panel
Updates and upkeepManaged for youYours to doNot applicableSnapshot, update, check, undo on failure
BackupsDaily, varies by planOften an add-onDatabase snapshotsHourly, every site, restore drilled weekly
The bill grows withSites, visits and storageServers and add-onsCompute, requests, dataSites only. Traffic is never metered
Who runs the serverThe hostYouThe platformWe do. Or you, on the panel-only plan

Typical of each kind of hosting in 2026; individual products differ. Compare for yourself; we would rather you did.

Push to deploy

From a push to a live release, with a way back.

Zero-downtime releases for Laravel and static sites, theme pulls for WordPress. Every step logged, every release one click from undone.

  1. 01

    Create the site

    Pick WordPress, Laravel or static, the PHP version and the database. The server sets up the user, pool, vhost and database and prints a deploy key for the repository.

  2. 02

    Push

    GitHub tells the panel about the push. The server clones the branch into a fresh release, runs composer and your build, migrates, then swaps the release in one step.

  3. 03

    Check, or roll back

    The panel fetches your health path seconds after the swap. If it fails and auto-rollback is on, the previous release is back before the alert reaches you.

Deploy · api.northwind-shop.com · main
Cloning [email protected]:northwind/shop-api.git#main
composer install
migrate
  2026_10_28_120000_add_invoice_index ...... 41 ms DONE
.den/release
Live: 20261031142210 (a91c3e2)
Health GET /up → 200 in 163 ms
Deploy succeeded · 48 s
Managed for you

We run the servers. You run the agency.

Every plan includes the servers underneath: provisioned, patched, hardened and watched by us. Already run your own? Connect them on the panel-only plan.

Fully managed

We size, patch and monitor the servers your sites run on, and move a site to a bigger one before it needs it. You never see a server bill or a root prompt.

Or bring your own

Connect any Ubuntu 24.04 server with one install line. The agent only calls out to the panel, so nothing listens on your server for us.

No lock-in

Your code stays in your GitHub and your domains at your registrar. SFTP and database access come with every site, so you can take a full copy any time.

Pricing

Per site, per month. First month free.

Pick a plan for each site and change it whenever the site changes. Pay yearly and two months are on us.

Essential

Everything a client site needs to run well.

$25per site / month

Start free month
  • WordPress, Laravel or static site
  • SSL, Cloudflare edge and CDN
  • Hourly backups, one-click restore
  • Uptime and certificate alerts
  • Push to deploy from GitHub
  • Email support

Business

For the sites that pay the bills.

$99per site / month

Start free month

Everything in Professional, plus

  • Preview environments per branch
  • Octane and Reverb for Laravel
  • Priority support, 1-hour response
  • Two business mailboxes included
  • Web rules and edge rate limits
  • Weekly restore drill, reported
Panel only

Already run your own servers?

Connect them and run every site on them through the panel, with the Essential features. Upgrade any site to Professional or Business tools later.

$19per site / monthStart free month

Add to any plan

Turn on per site or per account, and off again when it is no longer needed.

  • Business email

    $6 per mailbox / month

    Mailboxes on the client’s own domain, with webmail, IMAP and SMTP, and the DNS records set for you.

  • Done-for-you migration

    $149 per site, one-time

    We move the site, its mail and its DNS from the current host, with no downtime and nothing for you to copy.

  • Priority support

    $99 per account / month

    A named engineer and a one-hour response in business hours, for every site on the account. Included with Business.

  • Dedicated server

    From $199 per month

    An isolated server for one client’s heavy, busy or regulated sites, managed exactly like the rest.

Prices in US dollars, before tax. Media Lion care-plan clients: hosting is included in your plan.

Contact

Talk to the people who run their own sites on it.

Tell us what you host today and what you pay for it. We will show you the panel our own client sites run on, and the plan each of your sites belongs on.