Website operations

Who's looking after your website?

Your agency... until the project ended.

Whether we built your website or are taking over an existing one, Floodlight becomes the technical partner responsible for operating it every day. From hosting and security to ongoing support and continuous improvements, we help ensure your website remains secure, reliable, and ready to evolve alongside your organization.

Where are you today?

We help organizations through these moments.

Your new website is launching...

...and you need a trusted team to operate it for the long term.

Your agency built the site...

...but doesn't provide long-term support.

Your developer left...

...and nobody knows how the website works.

Support takes too long...

...and small problems become major frustrations.

Security keeps you up at night...

...but you're not sure who's watching.

Your website is mission-critical...

...and it deserves a dedicated operations partner.

Whether your website is launching, being rebuilt, or already live, Floodlight Operations provides the long-term technical ownership it needs.

What we do

We operate digital experiences.

Operate

  • Hosting & infrastructure
  • Performance monitoring
  • Backups & updates
  • Uptime monitoring
  • Technical support
  • Environment management

Secure

  • Security monitoring
  • Firewall & malware scanning
  • Access management
  • Vulnerability updates
  • Backup & recovery
  • Incident response

Enhance

  • Ongoing improvements
  • Accessibility optimization
  • SEO & performance tuning
  • Content & CMS support
  • Technical consulting
  • Feature enhancements

A good fit if...

You want a long-term technical partner.

  • Your website is live, launching, or being rebuilt.
  • You want a partner, not just a help desk.
  • Your marketing team needs reliable technical support.
  • Your organization depends on your website.
  • You want your website to remain secure and continually improve.

Who built your website?

Either way, we can operate it.

We provide long-term Website Operations for websites built by Floodlight, as well as sites created by other agencies, freelancers, and internal teams.

  • WordPress
  • Shopify
  • WooCommerce
  • Custom
    Applications

How we begin

A clear path to long-term website ownership.

1

Assess

We review your website, hosting, integrations, risks, and operational needs.

2

Transition

We coordinate the handoff from your build team, current provider, or internal staff.

3

Prepare

We configure hosting, monitoring, backups, security, and support systems.

4

Document

We document systems, access, integrations, and ongoing processes.

5

Operate

We operate, secure, support, and enhance your website every day.

What changes

What changes with Floodlight Operations.

Clear ownership

One team responsible for hosting, security, support, updates, and ongoing improvements.

Faster technical answers

A responsive team that already understands your website, systems, and organizational priorities.

A website that keeps improving

Performance tuning, accessibility improvements, strategic recommendations, and feature enhancements over time.

Common questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Every website is different. Here are a few questions we hear from organizations considering Floodlight Operations.

Hosting is only one component of Website Operations. Rather than simply providing server space, Floodlight becomes your outsourced website operations team, managing security, maintenance, performance, updates, technical support, and ongoing improvements. Instead of juggling multiple vendors or wondering who to contact, you have one experienced team responsible for the long-term success and health of your website.

Launching a website is the beginning, not the finish line. Software updates, security threats, browser changes, accessibility expectations, infrastructure requirements, and evolving organizational goals all require ongoing attention. Website Operations ensures your website remains secure, reliable, effective, and supported long after launch.

Absolutely. In fact, many of our Website Operations clients come to us after another agency, freelancer, or internal team built their website. Our onboarding process focuses on understanding your current environment, documenting what matters, identifying immediate risks, and establishing the right support, security, monitoring, and improvement processes moving forward.

We support WordPress, Shopify, WooCommerce, custom web applications, learning management systems, membership platforms, API-integrated websites, and other complex digital platforms. If your website includes unique functionality or technical requirements, we evaluate those during onboarding to ensure we are the right operational partner.

Yes. Many of the websites we manage include CRM integrations, APIs, payment processing, membership systems, learning platforms, data feeds, custom applications, and other business-critical functionality. Complex websites often benefit the most from having an experienced technical team responsible for their ongoing operation.

Typically, yes. We most often transition clients into our managed AWS hosting environment so we can take full responsibility for infrastructure, monitoring, backups, security, performance, and support. If your organization has specific hosting, compliance, or architecture requirements, we are happy to evaluate alternative solutions.

We begin by reviewing your website, hosting environment, software, integrations, security configuration, backups, analytics, and existing technical documentation. We then address immediate concerns, establish monitoring and support processes, and create a clear operational foundation before taking ongoing responsibility for the website.

Yes. Many clients continue working with internal marketing teams, branding agencies, PR firms, SEO consultants, and content partners. Floodlight becomes the technical operations partner behind the website, helping those teams implement their work while ensuring the platform remains stable, secure, and maintainable.

Because our team already understands your website and technical environment, we can respond much more efficiently than a vendor encountering the site for the first time. We continuously monitor the websites we manage and prioritize urgent issues such as outages, security concerns, failed updates, payment problems, and business-critical functionality.

Security is a core part of Website Operations. We manage software updates, secure hosting, monitoring, access controls, backups, login protection, and other safeguards appropriate to your website. We also investigate suspicious activity and respond quickly when potential vulnerabilities or security concerns are identified.

Website Operations is proactive, not simply reactive. Along with maintaining the technical health of your website, we identify opportunities to improve performance, accessibility, security, user experience, integrations, and content management workflows. Our goal is to help your website continually improve rather than merely remain online.

Yes. Most of our clients continue to evolve their websites over time. Smaller updates and enhancements may be included within your ongoing service, depending on your agreement, while larger initiatives are scoped separately. Because we already understand your website, new work can usually begin more efficiently than it would with a new development partner.

Depending on your service agreement, we provide quarterly reports covering areas such as website traffic, uptime, performance, software maintenance, security, accessibility, and recommendations. These reports help your organization understand how the website is performing and where future attention may be most valuable. We continue to partner with you and enhance your website over time to ensure it continues to perform optimally.

Website Operations is generally provided through an annual service agreement. This gives our team the continuity needed to properly understand, maintain, and improve your website over time while giving your organization a predictable level of support and operational responsibility.

Let's talk

Let's talk about your website.

We'll learn about your current situation, answer questions, and help determine whether Floodlight Operations is the right fit.

Schedule an Operations Review