Hoot Host is an all-in-one “Software With A Service” (SWAS) platform that provides professional website building, managed hosting, CRM + marketing tools, and ongoing support for small businesses.
Yes! Hoot Host has received hundreds of verified reviews on Alignable and Trustpilot, we are the #1 rated website platform on the Alignable marketplace, plus we have been featured in popular media and press outlets like Business Insider, Apple News, Associated Press, NBC, and many more. The Hoot Host community is over 2000 businesses who love to hoot about us!
We ensure your website is regularly updated, secure, and high-performing. We handle your updates, edits, and blog publishing which can easily be scheduled with us every month via the Member Dashboard Task Scheduler. Plus we integrate our CRM + marketing tools, and offer training to help you leverage our productivity and marketing software. We also assist with email marketing, CRM management, and a variety of related business support needs.
Hoot Host defines our business model as an SWAS – Software With A Service. Meaning our solutions go far beyond just the service of building and managing your website. We also empower your business with all of the software, tools, and ongoing support agencies do not include or only offer as expensive upsells. In addition to our done-for-you ongoing services, Hoot Host offers a robust suite of software, tools, and proprietary apps for business operations, productivity, marketing, email, and more. Making Hoot Host a truly all-in-one platform for all your website, marketing, infrastructure, and business needs. Plus we are able to offer our solutions at a fraction of traditional agency prices under our affordable monthly subscriptions.
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Unlike DIY platforms where you’re on your own, Hoot Host provides “Done-For-You” services and included ongoing support + coaching. We build and manage your website for you, then work with you month-to-month on continued improvements. While also empowering you with all of our tools and software to improve your operations and marketing. So you can excel while focusing on your business, knowing your online presence is supported by a reliable ongoing partner in Hoot Host.
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Hoot Host takes website maintenance and support to a much more comprehensive level than standard website maintenance companies. Nearly all website maintenance companies define “maintenance” as security reviews, plugin updates, page speed audits, and a basic update request or two per month. Hoot Host includes all of that plus: managed hosting, CRM and marketing software, blog publishing, marketing coordination, and more comprehensive month-to-month website improvements. Additionally, most maintenance companies only offer support for WordPress, while Hoot Host applies our comprehensive support plans to WordPress, Wix, Shopify, Squarespace, HighLevel, and HubSpot. Our expert team is third-party certified in a variety of platforms to support our customers regardless of the systems they use.
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We provide professional maintenance, support, and optimization for WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, HighLevel, and HubSpot.
HootCRM is our built-in CRM, business operations, and marketing suite that helps you manage contacts, communication, payments, sales pipeline, calendar scheduling, social media, email marketing, Google Business Profile, automations, and much more from our all-in-one dashboard.
We offer a suite of proprietary apps to scale your business, including ContentComposer (content marketing), HootHub (multi-channel communications), and Hoot.Page (business directory listing). You can find these and all our free or low-cost extensions at extensions.hoot.host
Yes! For those who aren’t ready for our $50–$250+ monthly tiers, we offer SprySite ( sprysite.io ). For just $15/month, you get a simple website platform with built-in marketing and optimization tools.
For our Website in a Day, Startup, and Small Business Website Builder plans we leverage our Hoot Host AI platform for streamlined building and ongoing management. For more advanced projects like e-commerce or membership websites we leverage HootPress – our enhanced version of WordPress.
Hoot Host AI is our revolutionary website platform that allows you to build a professional website in minutes just by chatting with AI. It automatically generates optimized content, images, and SEO settings tailored to your business. We recommend most users to Hoot Host AI through our Website in a Day plan for professional coaching and support from Christopher Carbaugh to maximize the platform.
Yes! We offer specialized plans for e-commerce, supporting platforms like WooCommerce and Shopify to help you sell products, manage inventory, and process payments online.
Absolutely. Every Hoot Host website is built with a responsive design, ensuring it looks and performs perfectly on desktops, tablets, and smartphones.
This varies by plan. Website in a Day and Startup Website Builder plans are typically for smaller websites around 5 pages. The Small Business level is for 10 pages, and Professional level is for a more robust website or e-commerce. See all Website Builder tiers at: hoot.host/website-builder
We provide high-performance, managed hosting powered by Google Cloud, Cloudflare, and our strategic infrastructure partners. This includes LiteSpeed optimization, 24/7 uptime monitoring, daily back-ups, built-in SSL, and enterprise-level security.
Yes, we offer managed Google Workspace, providing you with professional email addresses that work across all your devices. Plus all of Google’s included business productivity tools.
We handle the “Google SEO Essentials” for your website.. This includes technical SEO like sitemap.xml, robots.txt, llms.txt, standard on-page SEO title / description / focus keyword, structured data / schema, and performance optimization to help your business be indexed in Google and AI search results. SEO solutions and limitations vary by plan.
Yes. Whether we build your website or maintain your existing website, we integrate our powerful CRM and marketing tools to help you manage business and automate your growth.
Managed hosting is included for all Website Builder plans and all WordPress or custom-built websites on a maintenance plan. For self-hosted proprietary platforms (like Wix or Shopify), we provide the maintenance and support layer, but hosting is handled by those respective providers.
Yes. Through domains.hoot.host, we offer domain registration, DNS management, and domain security to ensure your web address is always safe and functional.
Yes. If you have a task that falls outside your standard plan limits, you can purchase add-on packages for extra support hours or specific projects. These are also available for customers looking for one-time help on a specific project.
No. We believe in earning your business every month. Our services are based on affordable monthly subscriptions with no big upfront costs or long-term contracts. Review our Terms and Conditions at: hoot.host/terms
You own your domain, email, and have necessary levels of access to your website at all times. Hoot Host Growth Tools, Software Extensions, and Website Builder plans are subject to specific Terms and Conditions for user access and ownership. As some of these solutions are proprietary web technologies. Customers should review their selected plan terms to full understand access and ownership limitations. Customers on our Website Maintenance and Support plans maintain full independent ownership of their online properties. See our terms and conditions at: hoot.host/terms