How Cloudways Helped KC Web Design Host Client Sites in Australia, Improve Page Load Times & Easy Staging Management

About KC Web Design

KC Web Design is a web design and marketing agency based in Australia focusing on the growth and customer experience of small and medium-sized business owners. They’ve worked in the industry for over 10 years and have helped hundreds of clients to maximize their online success.

Over the years, they have faced different challenges, and web hosting was their most crucial for clients’ websites. They were unsatisfied with the performance of their previous hosting provider due to the unavailability of Australian data centers, poor website management, and customer service.

Kyle Crisp, the founder of KC Web Design, was on the hunt to get the best-in-class web hosting that accelerates his website performance and makes it easier to manage WordPress websites with a user-friendly interface. His search ended with Cloudways as he got all the features and services he was looking for.

This case study highlights Kyle Crisp’s challenges in managing his clients’ websites and how Cloudways helped him with Australian data centers, improved page load times, website staging, and flexibility in choosing different cloud infrastructures.

Cloudways: Can you give a brief description of your agency?

Kyle: KC Web Design is a web design and marketing agency in Australia. We specifically work with small and medium-sized businesses and provide them with a one-stop solution for their website design, development, management, and online marketing.

Cloudways: What kind of websites do you build?

Kyle: We build informational websites for businesses, ecommerce stores, and blogs.

Cloudways: Do you focus on the Australian region only?

Kyle: We advertise and promote ourselves in Australia but also have a few clients in New Zealand.

Cloudways: What challenges were you facing that compelled you to start looking for a better solution?

Kyle: We were unhappy with the current hosting provider we were using for our websites. Their customer service was poor, the user experience managing our WordPress websites was poor, and they didn’t have Australian servers.

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Cloudways: What specific solution were you looking for in your ideal solution to your problem?

Kyle: We needed to find a hosting provider that had servers located in Australia. We also wanted something with an easier user interface and better customer service.

Cloudways: How did you figure Cloudways had the best solution for your problems?

Kyle: We spoke with someone from Cloudways on the live chat. They were very helpful and answered all the questions we had regarding our requirements.

Cloudways: What success did you initially see when migrating to Cloudways?

Kyle: We instantly noticed a huge decrease in page loading time on all of our clients’ websites because the server was now located in Australia instead of Singapore. Using the backend server management on the Cloudways website was also much easier.

Cloudways: Has Cloudways helped you save money or increase productivity?

Kyle: Yes, we are spending much less than our old hosting provider paid. Our productivity has also greatly increased, and we are getting things done in half the time it used to take.

Cloudways: What overall impact did Cloudways have on your business? Before and after? Speed, performance, multiple site management?

Kyle: The biggest impact Cloudways has had on our business is the massive increase in speed to our client’s websites by having the server located in Australia instead of overseas. It’s also much easier to manage clients’ websites from the Cloudways dashboard since we can jump around as needed without logging into separate accounts.

Cloudways: What cloud providers did you choose? What do you think of the flexibility of choosing a cloud provider at Cloudways?

Kyle: We ended up choosing Linode as our cloud server. They seemed to have exactly what we were looking for at a reasonable price. It’s great that Cloudways provides so many options for providers, and if we need to enable another server for a different purpose, there are plenty to choose from.

Cloudways: What are some key features you like at Cloudways? Did you try our SafeUpdates or Cloudflare Enterprise add-ons?

Kyle: Some of our favorite features of Cloudways are the ability to scale the server up as needed, the bot protection to prevent spam on our clients’ sites, one-click SSL certificates, and the built-in website caching using Varnish.

Cloudways: How about staging sites? Did it help in your workflows?

Kyle: We always use staging sites for larger updates to client sites without worrying about impacting the live site. Once we are ready, it’s very simple to push the new version out.

Cloudways: Was there anything surprising about moving to Cloudways? Do you think the price-to-performance ratio is better than any other hosting provider?

Kyle: We found it very surprising how affordable the pricing of Cloudways was compared to competitors. The support staff is also great to deal with; any time we have an issue that we couldn’t figure out, the live chat was able to very quickly provide us with a solution.

Cloudways: Do you have any advice for people or businesses that may face the same problem as you did?

Kyle: We tried 5 different hosting providers before coming to Cloudways over 2 years ago, and none of them even come close to the quality of service we receive from Cloudways. If you are unhappy with your current hosting provider and looking to make a change, I guarantee you won’t be disappointed.
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