Hosting and security

Back home⁞About⁞Infrastructure

Built to stay up, and looked after by us

Chrestos is made and run by ThenMedia, and your website sits on hosting we manage ourselves rather than rent and forget. Our servers are in London data centres, on professionally managed Google Cloud Platform infrastructure, so pages load quickly and your site is there when somebody looks for you on a Sunday morning.

Your content is backed up every day and copied to more than one location, so a problem in one place never becomes a problem for your church. Security updates and monitoring happen quietly in the background, and if something ever does need a person, it is one of our developers in Chester who picks it up. We say more about the footprint of those servers on our environment page.

Servers in a rack, labelled ThenMedia and Chrestos

Inside our infrastructure

Real servers,
real people

Your website runs on managed hosting in London data centres, on a framework we build and maintain ourselves rather than rent in. Content is backed up every day and copied to more than one location, so a problem in one place never becomes a problem for your church.

Patches, updates and monitoring happen quietly in the background, and when something does need a person it is one of our developers in Chester who picks it up.

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Secure and compliant

Open to everyone
who wants to use it

Every connection to your site is encrypted, so visitors see the padlock in the address bar, and personal data is handled in line with our privacy policy.

Every Chrestos website is built to meet WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility standards and is Transparency Code ready, so your church works just as well for somebody using a phone, a screen reader or a very old browser as it does for everybody else.

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Backup and recovery

Ready for the day
something goes wrong

Automated backups and disaster recovery plans are in place to protect against data loss and to restore your website quickly should the worst happen.

If something is not working the way you expect, you speak directly to our UK-based developers, never a call centre. No hidden costs and no nonsense, just straightforward help from people who understand church life as well as they understand code.

How support works