Website Development and Hosting Services
Built and Hosted by the Same Team
Most businesses split these. An agency builds the site, a hosting company runs it, and when performance drops, each points at the other. We've inherited enough of those situations to prefer owning both.
Website Development
We build custom sites for businesses across San Diego County—corporate sites, lead-generation sites, WordPress builds, e-commerce storefronts, and redesigns of sites that have stopped performing.
Every build is planned around what the site is supposed to produce: qualified inquiries, orders, or bookings. Design decisions follow from that rather than the other way around.
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Website Hosting
Once the site is live, it needs to stay fast, secure, and available. We host and manage sites on infrastructure sized to your actual traffic, with security monitoring, backups, and updates handled rather than left to you.
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Custom Website Development
We don’t work from templates, because businesses that look alike on a template compete on price. Our custom website development process starts with your business model, your buyers, and how they actually decide—then builds the site around that.
We develop:
- Corporate and B2B websites
- Lead-generation sites and landing pages
- Ecommerce website development
- WordPress websites and custom CMS builds
- Custom web applications and portals
- Website redesigns and rebuilds
Every site is built so your team can update content without calling a developer for a paragraph change.
Responsive Web Design
A site that can’t be found is an expensive brochure. Every site we build follows technical SEO practices from the first commit rather than as a retrofit.
SEO-friendly website development includes clean semantic markup and correct heading hierarchy; fast page speed measured against Core Web Vitals; crawlable URL structure; schema markup built in; optimized and properly sized images; XML sitemaps and robot configuration; and redirect mapping on any rebuild so existing rankings survive.
That last one matters more than anything else on the list. Redesigns that skip redirect planning routinely lose most of their organic traffic on launch day, and recovery takes months.
Ecommerce Website Development
Selling online needs more than a catalog. It needs a checkout that doesn’t lose people.
Our e-commerce website development covers product catalog structure, secure payment gateway integration, inventory and order management, customer accounts, shipping and tax configuration, and mobile checkout optimization. For platform-specific builds, see our Shopify and WooCommerce pages.
WordPress Design Agency Services
As a WordPress design agency in San Diego, we build sites that are genuinely maintainable—custom themes rather than heavily modified commercial ones, a lean plugin footprint, and updates tested before deployment.
Our WordPress work includes custom theme and block development, plugin integration and custom plugin development, migrations, performance optimization, security hardening, and ongoing maintenance.
WordPress gives your team control over content. It gives you a security obligation too, which is why we pair builds with managed website hosting.
SEO-Friendly Website Development
Every website we build includes SEO foundations as standard — not as an add-on:
- Clean, crawlable code that search engines can index accurately.
- Page speed and Core Web Vitals optimization.
- Proper URL structures, heading hierarchy, and meta data.
- Schema markup and structured data implementation.
- Google Analytics and Search Console integration at launch.
Performance and Speed​
Page speed affects conversion and search rankings, and hosting is usually a larger share of the problem than people expect.
Our hosting environments are configured for performance from the start: server-level and object caching, a content delivery network for global asset delivery, SSD or NVMe storage, PHP and database tuning, image optimization, and HTTP/2 or HTTP/3 delivery.
We monitor speed continuously rather than checking it when someone complains. If a plugin update or a traffic spike slows the site, we usually see it before you do.
Security and Backups
Most site compromises aren’t targeted attacks. They’re automated scans finding an outdated plugin on a site nobody has updated in eight months.
Our hosting includes SSL certificates issued and renewed automatically, web application firewall protection, malware scanning and removal, DDoS mitigation, hardened server configuration, automatic security patching, and daily off-site backups.
We test restores. A backup you’ve never restored isn’t a backup — it’s an assumption, and it’s the assumption that ends businesses.
Cloud Hosting Services
Traffic isn’t flat. A product launch, a press mention, or a seasonal peak can multiply demand overnight, and fixed hosting either wastes money the rest of the year or falls over on the day that matters.
Our cloud hosting services provide resources that scale with demand, load balancing across instances, redundancy so a single failure doesn’t take the site down, and straightforward capacity increases as you grow.
Cloud hosting suits businesses with seasonal peaks, active ecommerce operations, campaign-driven traffic spikes, or growth that makes fixed capacity hard to predict.
WordPress Hosting Services
WordPress runs a large share of the web, which makes it the most-targeted platform on it. Managed hosting is how you get the flexibility without carrying the security burden.
Our WordPress hosting services include core, plugin, and theme updates tested on staging before deployment, WordPress-specific caching and optimization, staging environments for safe changes, security hardening at server and application level, uptime monitoring, and daily backups.
You keep full control of your site. We keep it patched.
Ecommerce Hosting
Store downtime is measurable in lost orders, and checkout performance directly affects completion rate. Our ecommerce hosting is built for transaction volume and PCI-compliant configuration, with monitoring focused on checkout availability rather than just whether the homepage responds.
Website Design and Hosting: A Seamless, End-to-End Solution
Centaur provides website design and hosting as an integrated service, meaning your hosting environment is optimized specifically for the site we build:
- US-based web hosting services with domestic data centers for fast US page loads.
- High-uptime infrastructure with performance monitoring.
- SSL certificates, HTTPS, and automated backups.
- Malware scanning, DDoS protection, and proactive security monitoring.
- Affordable website hosting services in San Diego — scaled and clearly priced for your business size.
- Best website hosting for small business — reliable, fast, and secure without enterprise overhead.Â
What's Included in Every Hosting Plan
Not every underperforming site needs replacing. This is the assessment we run in discovery:
Feature | Details |
Infrastructure | Enterprise-grade cloud hosting (AWS) |
Uptime SLA | 99.9% |
Backups | Automated daily backups, 30-day retention |
Backup restores | Self-serve restores anytime; team-assisted restores within the same business day |
SSL certificate | Included and auto-renewing |
CDN | Cloudflare |
Caching | Server-level and object caching, configured per site |
Security | Firewall, malware scanning, and brute-force protection, with daily malware scans |
Monitoring | Uptime monitoring with alerts every 5 minutes |
Staging environment | Included on Business and Scale; available as a paid add-on on Starter |
Updates | Core, theme, and plugin updates applied and tested monthly, with critical security patches applied as soon as they’re released |
Support response | Under 4 business hours for general requests; under 1 hour for site-down emergencies |
Migration | Free migration from your current host |
Hosting Plans
We size plans to actual traffic and complexity rather than defaulting to the largest tier. The entry plan comfortably serves most small business sites.
Feature | Starter | Business | Scale |
Best for | Brochure and small marketing sites | Growing businesses, content-heavy sites, light ecommerce | High-traffic sites, complex integrations, strict uptime needs |
Monthly visits | Up to 10,000 | Up to 50,000 | 50,000+ |
Storage | 10 GB | 30 GB | 100 GB |
Bandwidth | 100 GB | 500 GB | Unmetered |
Sites included | 1 | 3 | 10 |
Staging | Add-on available | Included | Included |
Support | Business-hours email | Business-hours email + live chat | Priority |
Price | $29/mo | $79/mo | $199/mo |
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Should You Redesign Your Website or Rebuild It?
Not every underperforming site needs replacing. This is the assessment we run in discovery:
| Â | Redesign the existing site | Rebuild from scratch |
| Site age | Under 4 years | Over 5 years |
| Code health | Maintained, documented, few conflicts | Heavy plugin debt, abandoned theme, custom code nobody documented |
| Performance | Fixable with optimization | Structural — caching and compression will not save it |
| Structure | Information architecture still fits the business | Navigation no longer reflects what you sell |
| Typical cost | 30–50% of a full build | Full build |
| Typical timeline | 4–6 weeks | 8–12 weeks |
WordPress Design and Development
As a WordPress design agency in San Diego, we build the majority of our client sites on WordPress. Not out of habit — because of what happens after launch.
WordPress gives clients real ownership. Your marketing coordinator can publish a landing page without a support ticket. Your content team can restructure a section without a developer. And because the ecosystem is enormous, almost any integration you need later already exists in a maintained form.
How We Work
Every engagement follows a clear four-step process:
Discovery
Design
Development
Launch and Support
Why Both Together
- One accountable team for build, performance, and uptime
- Site speed treated as a development decision and a hosting decision at once
- Security, backups, and updates handled without a separate vendor
- Changes deployed by people who know how the site was built
- A San Diego-based team you can actually reach
Why Choose Centaur Strategies
- Full-service website development company — design, development, and hosting in one place.
- SEO-friendly website development built in from day one — not bolted on after.
- US-based web hosting services with transparent pricing.
- Post-launch support — we stay involved after launch.
- Specialists in website developers for small business — big results, right-sized approach.
Frequently Asked Questions
Website development is the design and build of the site itself. Hosting is the server infrastructure that keeps it online and fast. Combining them means one provider is responsible for both the code and the environment it runs in.
No. We’ll build the site and hand it over if you have a host you’re happy with. We recommend keeping both together because it removes the finger-pointing when something goes wrong, but it isn’t a condition.
Yes. We audit what exists first, document what’s working, and migrate it to our hosting. We only rebuild when rebuilding is genuinely cheaper than fixing.
Our team is based in San Diego and we work with clients across San Diego County — La Jolla, Carlsbad, Encinitas, Del Mar, Oceanside, Chula Vista, and Escondido. We also build and host for clients nationally.
Ready to Build a Website That Works for Your Business?
Whether you are looking for custom website development from the ground up, a WordPress redesign that finally reflects the quality of your brand, SEO-friendly website development that helps customers find you, or reliable and affordable website hosting services backed by a USA-based team — Centaur Strategies has the expertise, the technology, and the commitment to deliver.
Contact Centaur Strategies today to schedule your consultation. Let us build you a website that does not just look great — but performs, ranks, and grows your business for years to come.
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