Mike Dragosavich: Hey, I’m Mike Dragosavich with Spotlight Media in Fargo, North Dakota. I started this business 15 years ago. Started as a small magazine publisher. Now we still publish magazines. We have a marketing agency and a full-service web development agency. We’re now over 400 websites built. We have nine publications and we have over 100 marketing and advertising clients. We have a team of about 30 and 20 contractors. And we’ve learned to really rely on software and services as well.

And so what’s really kind of cool is when I was playing football for the Indianapolis Colts in the NFL, I built my first website in the hotel room. So I’ve always loved web development and we are very passionate about that.

Now, what’s key to us is that we help a lot of small businesses, and it’s very important that we find enterprise-type solutions for them because they don’t have the huge budgets. And that’s what’s really great about Cloudways. Cloudways not only is affordable, but wow, it feels like you’re working with a Fortune 500, biggest type of company you can, at a really good rate. And what that means is they have great features, great service, and everything you would need to be able to customize a hosting package for every single client that we work with.

Now, as we grow, and we continue to grow, we also need a provider like Cloudways where we can grow with them, and that’s been great as well. But here’s the best part. I’ve been with hosting providers for years. No one has ever treated us like Cloudways. The service is unbelievable. We have a Slack channel where we go on there and we can get answers in real time anytime we want. And they’re not only just answers in a reactionary way to help us solve problems. They’re helping us create solutions, helping us learn how to scale our business. And now we’re scaling our business around Cloudways. And that’s pretty special.

With all the different software programs we use, I can honestly say this is not just a software program. It is a full solution. So, we’re getting into now trying to stay ahead of AI, trying to bring in more advanced features to our clients, and that’s what Cloudways really comes in handy. We talked about speed today and coming up with different ways to make sure mobile, desktop, everything is super fast, even on super complex sites, because we all know for SEO purposes, that’s huge.

What we’re doing now is we just keep working with them every day, asking them open-ended questions, learning about every single feature that they have, every add-on, and we’re building our business around it. That’s pretty special. And thank you to Cloudways. What a great team. What a great company. Wouldn’t do it without them.