Managed hosting & technical services · Melbourne

Infrastructure, built brick by brick.

WordPress to Microsoft SQL, single server to load‑balanced AWS. We host it, route it, back it up and answer the phone when you call. Australian data centres, one team, one invoice.

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20+ yrsRunning sites
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Any stack

Bring the stack you have. We’ll run it properly.

Around 80% of the sites we look after are WordPress. The rest are PHP frameworks, custom applications and .NET systems on Microsoft SQL. Each one gets a tuned environment, not a shared‑hosting shrug.

WordPress PHP 7 → 8 MySQL / MariaDB Microsoft SQL Server Custom applications AWS Node & static sites Windows & Linux

Infrastructure

The technical services most agencies outsource. We run them.

Hosting is more than a server. Below is the plumbing that keeps a business online, and how we handle each piece.

Load balanced · auto-healing

Traffic spreads across servers, so one failure is nobody’s problem.

For sites that can’t go down, we put a balancer in front of two or more application servers. Requests are routed to the healthiest node, sessions stay sticky where they must, and a server can be patched or replaced while customers keep buying.

  • Health checks route around failed nodes in seconds
  • Horizontal scaling for sale days and campaign launches
  • Zero-downtime deployments and patching
3D needs WebGL

Cloudflare · specialised DNS routing

Your DNS is the front door. We make it fast and clever.

Cloudflare sits at the edge for caching, WAF and DDoS protection. Behind it we build DNS that does real work: geo and failover routing, split-horizon records for internal systems, and sub-domains pointed at different platforms without anyone noticing the seams.

  • Edge caching and web application firewall
  • Failover and geo-aware DNS routing
  • SPF, DKIM and DMARC done right, every domain
3D needs WebGL

MySQL · Microsoft SQL · replication

Databases with a replica, a backup and a person who restores it.

MySQL and MariaDB for the web stack, Microsoft SQL Server for .NET and line-of-business systems. We tune queries and indexes, replicate to a second node, and take managed daily backups that we actually test.

  • Primary-replica replication and point-in-time recovery
  • Query tuning when a report takes 40 seconds
  • Migrations between engines and versions
3D needs WebGL

Email receiving · email broadcasting

Mail that arrives, and mail that lands in the inbox.

Branded mailboxes with webmail, spam filtering with a quarantine you can check yourself, and incoming form mail scrubbed of bots. On the outbound side, dedicated broadcasting infrastructure with warmed IPs, bounce handling and full authentication, so campaigns reach people.

  • Hosted business mailboxes and spam quarantine
  • Transactional and campaign sending from your domain
  • Deliverability monitoring, bounces and list hygiene
3D needs WebGL

VPN · firewalls · two-factor

Private access to the systems that should never be public.

Admin panels, databases, staging servers and internal apps live behind a VPN. Staff connect from anywhere with two-factor login; the open internet sees nothing. Firewalls, monitoring and patching are included, not an upsell.

  • Site-to-site and remote-access VPN
  • Firewalling, intrusion monitoring and alerts
  • Two-factor login across hosting and email
3D needs WebGL

Everything technical

If it has a config file, we probably look after one.

One phone number for all of it. No ticket ping-pong between your developer, your host and your email provider.

WordPress hostingTuned PHP, object caching, updates applied and checked.
PHP applicationsLaravel, Symfony, legacy codebases. Version upgrades included.
MySQL & MariaDBReplication, tuning, backups, point-in-time restore.
Microsoft SQL ServerWindows hosting for .NET and line-of-business systems.
Custom systemsBespoke apps, APIs and integrations on hosting we control.
AWSEC2, RDS, S3 and CloudFront in Australian regions, managed for you.
Load balancingMulti-server clusters with health checks and failover.
CloudflareEdge caching, WAF, DDoS protection and rules.
Specialised DNS routingFailover, geo and split-horizon DNS, managed for you.
Email receivingBusiness mailboxes, webmail, spam quarantine, form-mail filtering.
Email broadcastingCampaign and transactional sending with real deliverability.
VPNRemote and site-to-site access with two-factor login.
Backups & recoveryManaged daily backups and a human who restores them.
SSL & securityCertificates, firewalls, scanning and monitoring.
MigrationsSite, email and DNS moved with no downtime, on your date.
MonitoringUptime, performance and alerts that reach a person.

About

Same engineers as Intellecta. This is the hosting hat.

Digital Directive is the sister company of Intellecta, a Melbourne web team that has been building and running websites for over twenty years. Intellecta designs and builds. Digital Directive keeps the lights on: hosting, infrastructure, email and the technical work in between.

We run our own Australian hosting rather than reselling someone else’s, so we can tune each environment, fix problems ourselves and answer the phone. Amazon and Vultr cloud resources are used where a site needs them, also in Australian regions.

“They’ve worked with our company since 2015, and ever since they’ve always made us feel like we are fresh clients. They are very responsive to every email and query.” Long-term client, via Intellecta

How a move works

Free reviewWe look at where your site is hosted, how fast it loads, whether backups exist and how your email and DNS are set up.
Migration without downtimeWe copy the site, test it on our hosting, then switch DNS at a quiet time on a date you choose.
One phone number from then onHosting, email, DNS, database and WordPress questions all go to the same team.

Say hello

Tell us what you need. We’ll come back fast.

Three quick questions. No account, no ticket number, no bot.

Fast response, promised.A real engineer replies the same business day, usually within the hour, Monday to Friday, Melbourne time.
Prefer to talk? 03 8899 7868 Digital Directive · PO Box 468, Williamstown VIC 3016
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