Expert Managed Web Hosting Services for Nonprofits
From server setup to ongoing maintenance, we’ve got it covered
Giant Rabbit offers managed hosting for nonprofits using Drupal, Backdrop CMS, WordPress, CiviCRM, and other applications, with a dedicated server hand-tuned to your specific needs. We provide comprehensive server maintenance and disaster recovery, so you never need to worry about site updates or backups.
Your infrastructure should belong to you
It’s a core Giant Rabbit value that our clients own their own digital assets directly. With our distributed infrastructure, you’ll create and own your own AWS or DigitalOcean account, and delegate access to us so we can configure and manage your Ubuntu server for you. Our Ansible scripts allow us to maintain your server and websites efficiently and effectively.
Most web hosting for nonprofits works the other way: your site lives on a server owned by your vendor, often intermingled with their other clients. Or, your site’s on a third-party host that adds a layer of middleware between you and your server setup, which means you need to deal with limited administrative controls and service-tier upselling, instead of direct control over key technical settings like caching, memory allocation, file permissions, and more. With our unique distributed infrastructure, we set things up differently from day one because we think your assets should stay yours.
We’ll scale your site and keep it running
Most websites run well on a single server, but when your organization is preparing for a major fundraising campaign, a media moment, or a large membership drive, you need to know your infrastructure can handle it. We can scale your setup to be as robust as it needs to be, spanning multiple servers across different regions with load balancing if necessary. We monitor your uptime and tune your configuration until it performs the way you need it to.
Our managed hosting services
Cloud platforms
- DigitalOcean (most nonprofits are eligible for a one-time service credit)
- Amazon Web Services (many nonprofits can benefit from a TechSoup discount)
Infrastructure
- Code change tracking and version control (git)
- Systems administration automation (Ansible, Kubernetes)
- Free non-profit certificate authority (Let’s Encrypt)
- Separate environments for staging, testing, security updates, and production, so there’s always got a safe place to try out changes
- Reliable email delivery (Amazon Simple Email Service, SendGrid, Maileroo)
Monitoring & backups
- Security updates
- Website uptime monitoring
- Nightly database & file backup and verification
- Server email deliverability monitoring
Managed hosting for nonprofits FAQs
We get a lot of questions from nonprofits looking for better hosting. Here are the ones that come up most.
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