{"id":86572,"date":"2026-08-11T10:08:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T10:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmaba.org.uk\/clubs\/?page_id=86572"},"modified":"2026-08-11T10:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T10:09:13","slug":"wordpressbybmaba-martial-arts-dedicated-wordpress-hosting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bmaba.org.uk\/clubs\/association\/wordpressbybmaba-martial-arts-dedicated-wordpress-hosting\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPressbyBMABA – Martial Arts Dedicated WordPress Hosting"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Enterprise WordPress hosting, on a club’s budget of nothing.<\/em><\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Fully managed, ISO 27001 certified, hourly backups, automatic updates, a global CDN and more than 190 premium plugins bundled. It is the kind of hosting agencies put on a retainer, and it is included with your membership.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJoin Free & Get Hosted<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAlready have a site? We move it →<\/span><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\u00a33,000+<\/strong>Approximate annual value, included<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t190+<\/strong>Premium plugins bundled<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\tHourly<\/strong>Automatic backups<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\tISO 27001<\/strong>Certified under UKAS accreditation<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/header>\n\n\t\t\t
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Most club websites are not slow or hacked because of WordPress. They are slow or hacked because of where they are hosted.<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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The typical club site sits on a shared plan bought for a few pounds a month, sharing a server with hundreds of unrelated sites. Updates go unapplied because nobody owns them. Backups exist in theory. Security is a plugin somebody installed once. It works fine right up until it does not, and the recovery falls on whoever built it, who is usually a student who has since moved away.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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We took a different route. Rather than reselling budget hosting, we run a single high-specification managed environment and put member clubs on it. You get infrastructure sized for large, complex, high-traffic sites, maintained by specialists, under an information security regime that is externally audited. For nothing.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n\n\t\t\t

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Built for large and complex sites, not for a brochure page.<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t

We host on a specialist WordPress platform, on a tier intended for sites with substantial traffic and heavy functionality. Most clubs will never come close to using it, which is precisely the point: your site is never the thing straining the server.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Enough headroom that a busy timetable page, a shop and a members area coexist without slowing each other down.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Dedicated processing rather than a share of somebody else’s. This is where cheap hosting quietly falls over.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Room for years of photographs, video, gradings archives and event galleries without a single upgrade prompt.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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No traffic caps and no overage charges. A post that unexpectedly does well is good news rather than a bill.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

Hosting of this specification, bought commercially with the plugin licences and management that come with it, would cost a club in the region of \u00a33,000 a year. Our members pay nothing for it, because we buy the environment once and our not-for-profit status means there is no margin to add.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/section>\n\n\t\t\t

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What “fully managed” actually means<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Managed is a word every host uses. Here is precisely what we take off your hands, so you can compare it against whatever you are paying for now.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAutomatic updates<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWordPress core, themes and plugins updated for you, with checks so an update never silently breaks your site. The single most common cause of a hacked club website is an update nobody applied.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHourly backups<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYour entire site backed up every hour and retained, so the worst case is losing an hour rather than a decade. Restores are ours to run, not yours to attempt.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSecurity & firewall<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tManaged firewall, malware scanning and automated threat blocking, on infrastructure covered by our ISO 27001:2022 certified information security management system.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGlobal CDN & caching<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYour site served fast wherever the visitor is, with image optimisation and caching handled rather than left as a plugin you have to configure.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFree SSL, always<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIssued, installed and renewed automatically. No expiry warnings frightening off a parent halfway through an enquiry form.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStaging & safe changes<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSignificant changes tested away from your live site first, so nothing experimental ever happens in front of your students.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUptime monitoring<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWatched around the clock. If something goes wrong we generally know before you do, and we are already fixing it.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpert human support<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOur own developers, plus specialist hosting support behind them. Not a chatbot and a knowledge base article about clearing your cache.<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n\n\t\t\t
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More than 190 premium and expertly selected plugins, licensed and ready.<\/em><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Plugin licences are where WordPress quietly gets expensive. A decent forms plugin, a booking system, an SEO suite, a backup tool and a page builder can run to several hundred pounds a year before you have built anything.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Our environment bundles a curated library of more than 190 premium and free plugins, already licensed, already vetted, and available to every club we host. Including full WooCommerce e-commerce, so a club shop, seminar tickets or online course sales are a configuration exercise rather than a purchase.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Full WooCommerce<\/strong>Club shop, kit sales, seminar tickets, course payments and subscriptions.<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
Forms & bookings<\/strong>Enquiries, trials, PARQs and waivers, captured properly rather than emailed.<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
SEO & analytics<\/strong>Premium optimisation and reporting tools, so you can see what is actually working.<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
Page builders<\/strong>Build visually if you want to, with licensed premium builders included.<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
Performance & images<\/strong>Optimisation, compression and caching handled at platform level.<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
Security & anti-spam<\/strong>Protection that would otherwise be an annual licence of its own.<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/section>\n\n\t\t\t
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A club shop, a members area and card payments, without a separate platform.<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

WooCommerce is included and licensed, which means your website can take money properly rather than sending people to a bank transfer and hoping. Gi and kit sales, seminar and grading tickets, online courses, gift vouchers, subscription plans and gated content for paying members.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

It is the same commerce engine behind a very large share of the online shops in Britain, so it is not a compromise. Card payments, stock control, discount codes, VAT handling and order emails all work out of the box, and our developers will set it up with you rather than pointing you at documentation.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Club shop<\/strong>Kit, gis, gloves, patches and club merchandise, with stock control and postage rules.<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
Tickets & events<\/strong>Seminars, gradings, competitions and camps, sold and tracked online.<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
Members area<\/strong>Gated pages, syllabus video, downloads and resources for paying students only.<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
Courses & downloads<\/strong>Sell digital content, online courses or resources to students and other instructors.<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
Subscriptions<\/strong>Recurring plans where a club wants them, alongside the platform’s own billing.<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
Proper checkout<\/strong>Card payments, VAT, discount codes and order emails handled correctly.<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n\n\t\t\t
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Enterprise ready, for the clubs and organisations who need it.<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Most club sites are modest, and that is fine. But if yours is not, nothing here will get in your way. This is full, unrestricted WordPress on infrastructure sized for large and complex sites, with our own developers behind it.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Large, complex sites<\/strong>Hundreds of pages, deep structures, multiple content types and heavy media libraries, without the site slowing to a crawl.<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t
Custom development<\/strong>Bespoke functionality, custom post types, tailored templates and code written specifically for how your organisation works.<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t
Integrations & APIs<\/strong>Connect to third party systems, booking tools, CRMs or your own software. Full server access means genuine integration rather than a workaround.<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t
Multi-site & federations<\/strong>Running several clubs, branches or a federation of members? We host multi-site estates and can structure them properly.<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t
High traffic events<\/strong>A competition entry deadline, a viral post or a national campaign will not take the site down. Unmetered bandwidth and real processing headroom.<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t
No obligation to host with us<\/strong>We have never required a club to use our hosting, and we never will. If it is not right for you, use any other provider you like, including your current one. Your domain is yours to point wherever you choose.<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/section>\n\n\t\t\t
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And if none of that sounds like your club, do not take it.<\/em><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Everything above is genuinely powerful, and for a good number of clubs it is more than they will ever need. A shop, custom code and API integrations are not a benefit if what you actually want is a smart site with the right class times on it that you can update yourself on a Sunday evening.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

That is exactly what Flo by BMABA is for. Code-free, eleven designed themes, pages already built for classes, timetables, instructors and contact, and live the same evening you join. Also free, also hosted by us, also fully supported.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

You do not have to guess between them.<\/strong> Our developers will mock your site up in both, so you can see the front end as a student would and try each back end before deciding.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExplore Flo by BMABA<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOr ask us which suits you →<\/span><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t
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Your students’ data sits under an audited information security regime<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A club website is rarely just a brochure. It holds enquiry forms with children’s names, medical declarations, next of kin details and sometimes payment records. That is personal data, and under UK GDPR it is your responsibility wherever it is hosted.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

BMABA CIC is certified to ISO 27001:2022 for information security management under UKAS accreditation, assessed by the British Assessment Bureau, alongside ISO 9001:2015 and Cyber Essentials. We are also registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office as a data controller. Hosting your club site with us places it inside that regime rather than beside it.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tOur Certifications<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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A code-free website builder, built for martial arts clubs<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Flo by BMABA is our own site builder, written in-house and given to every member club at no cost. A live on-screen visual composer, designed themes, deep customisation, one-click publishing, and a real developer on hand if you would rather someone else did it. The result is a professional club website you own and manage yourself, for nothing.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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