Independent web freight carrier
You built it (or AI did, we don't judge). ByteShip hosts it, guards it, patches it, and proves it every month. You never think about your website again.
Situation report
Everyone can build a website now. AI made that the easy part. Then the launch high wears off, and the site just… drifts. Nobody logs in. Nobody's watching. The open internet is hostile space, and your site is out there alone.
Updates pile up. One day something conflicts, and the site that "was fine" is a white screen. Entropy always wins, unless someone's on watch.
Bots hammer your login every night looking for a way in. Most sites never know until the pharma links show up in Google.
The worst outage is the quiet one: a contact form that hasn't delivered a lead since March. Nobody complains. The leads just stop.
Free hull scan // no signup, no email, no tricks
Enter your address and our scanner runs a drive-by inspection: security plating, engine speed, navigation beacons, AI readiness, and the gangway. Graded in about ten seconds. We don't ask for your email first because that would be a toll booth, and we run a freight line.
That was the free drive-by. The full inspection (a human, in your engine room, with a checklist) is also free, and it comes with a plan to fix every line above.
SURRENDER THIS SITE SEE WHAT'S INCLUDEDCargo manifest
GoDaddy sells you tools, then leaves you alone with them. We crew your ship. Here's what ships in the hold on every plan. No add-on screens, no renewal ambushes.
Ship classes
Month to month. No contracts. Every class includes the full cargo manifest above. The classes differ in how much crew you get.
$79 / month
Your site, fully crewed and maintained. You do nothing. That's the product.
$179 / month
Everything in Cargo, plus hands on deck every month. Text us what you need. It gets done.
Custom · from $500 / mo
Your business runs on the web, and you want a dedicated crew building for it.
SEO lives on the AI now. ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI answers are already telling people about your business, with whatever they can find. A site that hasn't published since 2023 doesn't get quoted. Fresh cargo does.
The Supply Line is a content operation run by Today Creative, our parent studio: regular resupply runs that keep your site publishing, your socials feeding it, and the machines citing you. We keep the ship running. They keep the hold full.
Separate operation · Negotiated rate for fleet members
Open a supply lineDefection protocol
The big hosts count on switching being scary. It isn't, because you don't do it. Extraction is free, on every class, always. You keep running your business. We run the operation.
Salvage & recovery log
Real cargo, real extractions, real crews on watch. A sample from the log. Names on file, condition reports honest.
Site changes took weeks, sometimes longer. A business moving at market speed, tethered to a website that wasn't.
Full extraction. Performance overhaul. Custom plugins built around how the business actually runs, not how a page builder assumed it might.
STATUS: CHANGES CLEAR IN UNDER 24 HOURS
Support requests drifting. Questions waiting on answers that weren't coming. Nobody clearly on watch.
Took over the watch. Site brought aboard, maintained, and monitored. Support response time cut to a fraction of what it was.
STATUS: SOMEONE ANSWERS NOW
WooCommerce stores running underpowered, and reporting that couldn't answer the questions the business was actually asking.
Store optimization, custom reporting plugins, and WooCommerce functions that didn't exist until we built them.
STATUS: HEAVY FREIGHT · RUNNING HOT
Shipboard systems
Here's the difference nobody else will tell you about: most hosts run your site on a pile of thirty third-party plugins, each with its own bugs, notices, upsells, and update roulette. ByteShip vessels run our own shipboard software (ByteShip Command), built and maintained by the same crew that hosts you. Fewer moving parts. Nothing nagging you to upgrade. One crew responsible for all of it.
Leads from your forms, tracked in your own dashboard: new, contacted, won, lost, with dollar values. The useful 10% of a CRM without the $50/month subscription or the learning curve. It even nags you (politely) when a lead sits unanswered.
Search titles, descriptions, and social share images (the honest core of SEO) without the bloated plugin, the traffic-light scores, or the upsell banners. Clean signals out, machine-readable, no drama.
For Heavy Freight vessels running stores: invisible fraud scoring, velocity limits on card-testing bots, and a blocklist for known bad actors. Your checkout stays open for customers and closed to boarders.
Log in to your dashboard and see one calm status board: your pages, your leads, your recent emails and whether they delivered. Not forty widgets screaming for attention. One board. All nominal.
Every email your site sends is delivered through professional infrastructure and logged, so "did the form email ever send?" has an answer, with a timestamp. Silent failures aren't silent here.
Need the site offline for an hour? One switch puts up a clean notice for visitors while the crew works, and you still see the live ship. No plugins to install at 11pm.
Accessibility, done honestly. Every vessel gets a skip link, visible keyboard focus, and a monthly inspection for the mechanical issues: missing image descriptions, unlabeled links, broken heading order, all logged on your manifest. What you won't get: an "ADA compliance widget." Those are snake oil, screen-reader users hate them, and lawsuits target sites that use them. We'll tell you what automation can fix and what needs human hands.
ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are answering questions about businesses like yours right now. Every ByteShip vessel ships structured data, clean answer-shaped metadata, an llms.txt file, and an explicit welcome for AI crawlers, so when the machines go looking, your ship is readable, quotable, and on the charts. Want them to actually cite you? That's what the Supply Line keeps stocked.
Every lead arrives with its story attached: the ad or search that brought them, the campaign, the device, and every page they read before filling out your form. It even tells you when an AI assistant sent the lead. First-party only, so no tracking pixels and no creepy fingerprinting. Just answers to "which marketing is actually working?"
Why does this matter to you? Because every plugin someone else wrote is a stranger on your ship. Ours answer to the same crew that answers to you. And when your business needs a system that doesn't exist, Captain Class means we build it. Ask Cool School Spirit.
The cargo ledger
Most small businesses pay $50 or more a month for a CRM, use a tenth of it, and feel vaguely guilty about the other nine tenths. Every ByteShip vessel includes that useful tenth, built in. When someone fills out your contact form, the lead lands in a ledger inside your own dashboard: who they are, what they asked for, and whether anyone has answered them yet. Mark it won, log the dollar value, and your monthly manifest shows what the website actually brought home.
And see those little source tags? That's the Flight Recorder. Someone fills out your form and you get the lead, but which ad brought them? Which campaign? Which page sold them? Most forms have no clue. Ours attach the entire story: where they came from, the exact campaign, their device, every page they read before converting. When the tag glows amber, an AI assistant sent them. To your visitor it's just a form. To you it's proof of what's actually working. (First-party only, nothing creepy: no tracking pixels, no fingerprinting, nothing stored unless they choose to hit send.)
It even nags you, politely, when a lead sits unanswered. Leads move through a real pipeline (new, hailed, qualified, quoted, won), each with a warmth score that cools the longer nobody acts, and one-click follow-up emails written in plain English that you read before they send. To be clear about what this is not: it's not HubSpot, and that's deliberate. No automation sequences, no contact scoring algorithms, no seventeen dashboards. The useful tenth, standard on every ship, at no extra charge. If you outgrow it into the real heavy machinery, we'll tell you honestly and help you export.
Comms policy
We don't board it. We just make sure it docks correctly.
Your email stays in your own Google or Microsoft account, under your control, forever. We handle the wiring (MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC) so your mail delivers, your forms deliver, and your domain's reputation stays clean. We're never between you and your inbox, and we're never reading it. Big hosts trap everything in one account they own. We think that's called something else.
Transmission log
No. That's the whole point.
Congratulations, sincerely. Now: who's feeding it? AI made launching free and neglect universal. We're the crew that keeps it alive after the magic wears off. Bring it aboard as-is.
Is it the DNS? Then it's us, and we're on it. Is it your inbox? Then it's Google, and godspeed. (This division of labor is why your email stays yours. See comms policy, above.)
We do salvage runs. It costs more than prevention would have. Bring it to us anyway. We'll scrub the hull, patch the breach, and then you'll never need a salvage run again, because someone will be on watch.
Not us. Our parent studio. Today Creative runs the Supply Line: monthly content drops, social feeding the site, everything structured so AI search actually cites you. Separate operation, negotiated rate for fleet members. We keep the ship flying. They keep the hold full.
For most small businesses aboard: no and no. The Cargo Ledger tracks your leads in your own dashboard, and the Signal Array handles search titles, descriptions, and share images. That's the part of those tools you were actually using, without the subscriptions, the bloat, or the upsell banners. If you genuinely need the heavy machinery, we'll tell you so honestly.
Careful: no software can promise that, and we won't either; compliance is a legal determination, and anyone selling a one-line 'compliance widget' is selling snake oil (those overlays are actual lawsuit magnets). What we do: every vessel gets keyboard and screen-reader basics built in, a monthly automated inspection for mechanical issues, an accessibility statement page, and honest reporting on your manifest. For businesses with real exposure, we offer human audits: the part automation can't do.
Nobody can guarantee it. Anyone who says otherwise is selling the 2026 version of 'guaranteed page one on Google.' What we can do: make your ship fully readable to the machines (structured data, clean metadata, llms.txt, AI crawlers explicitly welcomed (all standard on every vessel)), and through the Supply Line, publish the kind of fresh, answer-shaped content the machines actually cite. Readable is the floor. Cited is the goal.
Month to month. Ships that hold cargo hostage are called something else.
We'll pack your cargo (full site export, domain transfer, DNS records) and wave you off from the dock. It's your ship. It was always your ship.
A small, veteran crew from Today Creative, a design and development studio. We've been hosting and maintaining sites for our own clients for years. ByteShip is that operation, with the airlock opened to everyone.
Final boarding call
Hand over the cargo. We'll take it from here, and every month, we'll prove it.
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