{"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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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t32 GB<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMemory<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t640 GB<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStorage<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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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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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Already have a website? We will move it for you, free.<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Our own in-house developers will transfer your existing club website from any platform, at no cost, as part of membership. Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy, Weebly, another WordPress host, or something a member of your club built years ago and no longer maintains.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

And we will build it twice if you want us to.<\/strong> Our developers can produce a mock-up in both systems, WordPress and Flo, so you can look at the front end exactly as a prospective student would, then log into each back end and decide which one you actually prefer working in. No commitment either way, and nothing to pay whichever you choose.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAbout Free Transfers<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSend us your current site →<\/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 site rebuilt faithfully on our managed WordPress hosting, keeping your design, content, URLs and search rankings intact.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOption two<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA close replica in Flo<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

The same site recreated in our code-free builder, so you can update a class time yourself in thirty seconds without touching a plugin ever again.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOption three<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSomething entirely refreshed<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

If your site is tired, say so. We will design something current around how your club actually operates, rather than reproducing a layout from 2018.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\tThis is where membership frequently pays for itself.<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Clubs coming to us are typically paying a website builder subscription, a separate hosting bill, a domain renewal, plugin licences and a designer’s hourly rate whenever something needs changing. All of that can be cancelled. For a great many clubs, the saving on those alone covers the entire cost of membership, and then some, before a single other benefit is counted.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Not sure WordPress is what you need?<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t

It is not the right answer for every club, and we would rather say so than host something you cannot maintain.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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