Website down? Developer gone?

We’ll take it from here.

For over 20 years we’ve hosted, repaired and maintained custom websites and web applications. When something breaks and the person who built it can’t be reached, we step in, work out what you have, and get it running again.

Max Web Services

Max Web Services is a hands-on web hosting and support company in Clovis, California. We started because local businesses with custom-built websites had nowhere to turn: most hosts only support off-the-shelf platforms like WordPress, and have nobody who understands an application written from scratch.

Today we look after sites for businesses, nonprofits and public agencies, from simple brochure sites to applications that take payments and run day-to-day operations.

Experience

Over 20 years of hosting and maintaining custom web applications.

Cloud Hosted

Your site runs on modern cloud infrastructure and is backed up routinely.

Direct Support

You talk to the people who actually work on your site, not a ticket queue.

What we do

Repairs, hosting and upkeep for sites other people built

Most of our work starts with a site we didn’t build. We figure out how it works, fix what’s broken, and keep it secure and up to date from then on.

Website rescue

Site down, hacked or showing errors? We diagnose and fix sites we didn’t build, and help you get back into your domain, hosting and accounts when nobody has the passwords.

Custom application hosting

PHP, Laravel, CodeIgniter, WordPress and older hand-built sites, hosted on cloud servers and containers that we set up and manage.

Upgrades and security fixes

We bring outdated applications onto supported versions of PHP and their frameworks, patch known vulnerabilities, and replace passwords and keys that have been exposed.

Ongoing maintenance

Updates, backups, SSL certificates and domain settings looked after, so small problems get caught before they turn into outages.

Moves off old servers

We migrate sites off ageing Windows and shared servers to modern hosting, and keep your old page addresses working so links and search rankings aren’t lost.

Fast, low-maintenance sites

A simple WordPress or older site can become a fast static site with almost nothing to patch, while keeping its look and its contact form.

Forms and email that arrive

Contact forms with spam protection that reliably reach your inbox, and domain email records set up so your messages don’t land in junk folders.

Archives of retired systems

When an old system is switched off, we keep its documents and records online at the addresses people already link to.

How it works

Taking over your site

You don’t need to know how your site was built or where it’s hosted. Finding that out is our job.

Tell us what’s wrong

Send us the site’s address and what you’re seeing. No technical details needed.

We find out what you have

We track down the hosting, the domain and what the site is built with, and back everything up before changing anything.

We fix it

We get the site working again and explain what went wrong in plain language.

We keep it running

If you’d like, we host and maintain it from then on, so you always know who to call.

What we work with

Old code and new

We’re comfortable with applications written years ago and with the tools used to host them today.

  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • CodeIgniter
  • WordPress
  • MySQL and MariaDB
  • Docker
  • Linux and Windows servers
  • Cloudflare
  • Transactional email
  • Static sites

Something broken right now?

Send us a message with your site’s address and what’s happening. We’ll take a look and tell you what it will take to fix.