Web hosting for law firms and lawyers on managed WordPress
Web hosting for law firms has one job that matters more than speed scores: keep the consultation form working so new matters reach the firm. NowHosted runs your WordPress site in an isolated container with a WAF, malware scanning, daily off-site backups and uptime checks every minute. We move your current site for free, with zero downtime, and plans start at 24 USD per month billed yearly.
Firm sites
Region North America
- Uptime check
- Every 60 s
- Last backup
- Today 03:00
- Consultation form
- Responding
- smithlegal.example.comProduction
- injury.smithlegal.example.comProduction
- staging.smithlegal.example.comStaging
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Keep the consultation form online when a client is ready to call
A prospective client who searched "divorce lawyer near me" at 9 p.m. fills in one form and moves on if it fails. For most firms the website is the front desk after hours, so the hosting decision is really a decision about how many inquiries reach your intake team.
We check every site every minute from outside, the way a visitor reaches it. When the site stops answering, we start the incident process and email you. Daily off-site backups and one-click restore mean a broken plugin update on Friday afternoon does not take the contact page down for the weekend.
Test the path a client actually takes, not only the homepage. Submit your own consultation form from a phone, confirm the email lands in the right inbox, and check that the form tool, scheduling widget and call tracking still load after every plugin update. Use one-click staging to try updates on a copy before they reach the live site.
- Uptime checks every minute on every plan.
- Daily off-site backups with one-click restore.
- One-click staging to test plugin and theme updates.
- Global CDN and edge cache, with forms and admin pages excluded from cache.
Consultation request path
- 01Visitor opens the contact pageOK
Served from the edge cache
- 02Form submitted over HTTPSOK
Never cached
- 03Email sent to intakeDelivered
- 04Uptime checkPassing
From outside, every minute
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Hosting controls that match a duty of confidentiality
ABA Model Rule 1.6(c) asks lawyers to make reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized access to information relating to a client's representation. A marketing website rarely holds case files, but intake forms do collect names, phone numbers and a short description of a legal problem. That data deserves the same care as anything else that touches a prospective client.
Each NowHosted site runs in its own isolated container, so your firm's site does not share an application environment with unrelated blogs or stores. A WAF filters hostile requests, malware scanning watches the files, and automatic SSL encrypts every connection, including the form submission. A DPA is signed on request through [email protected].
Keep the website and the case file apart. Send intake data to your practice management or CRM system and avoid storing full submissions in a WordPress plugin table longer than needed. Our secure WordPress hosting page lists every control and the incident process: detect, contain, notify by email, report.
Security controls
smithlegal.example.com- Isolated container
- Active
- WAF
- Filtering
- Malware scan
- Clean
- TLS certificate
- Renews automatically
- DPA
- Signed on request
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One account for the main site, practice areas and landing pages
Many firms run more than one site: the main firm site, a separate personal injury or estate planning site, an attorney bio site, and campaign landing pages for paid search. Business covers up to 3 sites. Agency covers up to 20 sites with owner, developer, billing and client roles, which suits a firm that works with an outside marketing agency.
Roles keep access tidy. Your office manager can hold billing, your marketing agency can hold developer access, and nobody needs to share one login. When the agency relationship ends, you remove one role instead of resetting every password. Scale adds SAML SSO and an audit log for firms whose IT team wants hosting sign-in tied to the firm directory.
Choose North America as the server region for a US practice so pages load close to the people searching for you. The region is set per site, so a firm with a London office can place that site in Europe.
Team roles
Smith Legal account
- Managing partnerOwner
- Office managerBilling
- Marketing agencyDeveloper
- AssociateClient
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Law firm hosting plans and what they cost
Most solo and small firms fit on Business. A multi-office firm, or a firm with several practice-area sites and an outside agency, usually fits on Agency. Larger firms with an IT team and a vendor review process look at Scale for SSO, the audit log and the security questionnaire pack.
| Plan | Yearly billing | Monthly billing | Sites | Backups kept | Fits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business | Yearly billing24 USD per month, 288 USD per year | Monthly billing49 USD per month | Sites3 | Backups kept14 days | FitsSolo and small firms |
| Agency | Yearly billing74 USD per month, 888 USD per year | Monthly billing149 USD per month | Sites20 | Backups kept30 days | FitsMulti-office firms and firms with a marketing agency |
| Scale | Yearly billing199 USD per month, 2,388 USD per year | Monthly billing399 USD per month | Sites60 | Backups kept90 days | FitsLarger firms with SSO and vendor review |
Every plan includes free migration, SSL, the WAF, malware scanning and staging. Scale adds a 99.99% uptime SLA with service credits and 24/7 priority support with a 15-minute first response. The full list is on the WordPress hosting plans page.
Move your firm's site without missing an inquiry
We copy your site to a staging address, you review it, and we switch DNS only after you approve. The old host stays untouched until you cancel it, so there is always a way back. The free website migration page walks through each step.
Not sure how your current host performs? Run the read-only audit on the homepage. It checks response time, TLS certificate expiry, security headers and cache status without changing anything.
Questions law firms ask
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It does not need hosting built only for lawyers, but it needs more than budget shared hosting. A firm site should have isolation from other customers, a WAF, daily off-site backups, SSL on every form and uptime monitoring, because a down contact form loses new matters. Managed WordPress hosting covers all of that without IT staff.
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Managed WordPress hosting for one law firm site usually starts at about 25 to 35 USD per month billed yearly and rises with the number of sites and traffic. NowHosted Business costs 24 USD per month billed yearly for 3 sites, and Agency costs 74 USD per month billed yearly for 20 sites. Migration is free on every plan.
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Yes, when the hosting and maintenance are handled properly. Most WordPress incidents come from outdated plugins, weak logins and shared server environments. An isolated container per site, a WAF, malware scanning, staging for updates and role-based access remove most of that risk, and backups cover the rest.
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The best web hosting for lawyers keeps intake forms online, encrypts submissions, backs up daily and gives the firm clear control over who has access. Compare isolation, backup retention, support response time and migration help. Check the host signs a DPA if your firm or clients ask for one.
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Yes. We build a staging copy on NowHosted, you review it, and DNS switches only after your approval. The old host keeps serving visitors until the switch, so the consultation form stays online throughout. Migration is included free on every plan.
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Yes. On Agency and Scale you give your agency developer access through team roles while the firm keeps owner and billing roles. When the relationship ends, you remove the agency's role without changing other logins.