Your website stays up, stays safe and keeps taking enquiries while you run the business.
Gully Sales hosts, secures and monitors websites for Indian SMBs. Your site runs on a server we watch, is backed up on a schedule we test, and is patched before a known weakness becomes an outage or a defaced home page.
A server sized for your traffic, watched round the clock, by a named person who responds.
Backups taken on a schedule and restored on a schedule, so recovery is proven, not hoped.
SSL, firewall, patching and access control handled, with a monthly report you can read.
Gully Sales Private Limited hosts and secures websites for small and medium businesses across India, and every engagement begins with a free audit.
In one paragraph
What is Website hosting and security for Indian SMBs?
Website hosting and security from Gully Sales keeps your website online, backed up and protected so it can keep producing enquiries. We move or set up the site on infrastructure we manage, add SSL, firewall and access controls, patch the platform and plugins, take and test backups, monitor uptime and report to you every month. It suits businesses whose website matters to sales but has nobody watching it.
The problem
Nobody is watching the website until the day it goes down.
The hosting was bought in a hurry, by whoever built the site, on whatever plan was cheapest that year. It worked, so nobody looked at it again. The developer moved on, the renewal card changed, the platform released forty updates, and the site kept opening, so it kept being ignored. The business has meanwhile started spending on ads, printing the URL on packaging and sending it to every prospect. The website has become important without anyone becoming responsible for it.
You will recognise it as
The hosting was bought years ago by a developer or a relative, and nobody in the office knows the login.
The last time anyone checked whether a backup exists was never; the assumption is that the hosting company keeps one.
Visitors sometimes see a browser warning that the site is not secure, and the fix is put off because the site still opens.
Platform and plugin updates sit pending for months, because a past update broke something and nobody wants to risk it again.
You learnt the site was down from a customer, a distributor or a Google Ads alert, not from a monitor.
Domain, hosting and SSL renew on different dates, on different cards, and at least one has lapsed before.
What it costs the business
Every hour the site is down, the ads keep spending and the referrals keep landing on an error page, and the enquiries from that hour do not come back.
A hacked or defaced site is found by prospects and search engines before it is found by you, and the warning label lingers after the fix.
Without a tested backup, a bad update or a compromised server means rebuilding pages from memory and screenshots.
Lapsed certificates and stale software quietly cost trust and rankings long before they cause a visible failure.
Why it persists. Hosting is cheap to buy and invisible when it works, so it is treated as a utility rather than as the floor the website stands on. The people who could look after it are developers who have moved on, or a shared-hosting helpdesk that answers tickets but watches nothing. Security work has no visible output on a good day, which makes it the easiest item to defer, and each deferral makes the eventual update more frightening than the last.
If it stays unresolved. The site keeps working until it does not, and the failure arrives on the worst day: during a campaign, a tender or a season. Recovery then happens under pressure, with whoever can be found, at whatever it costs, and the enquiries lost in between are never counted.
What changes
The site stays online, recovers quickly, and is somebody's actual job.
In the first weeks
A written technical baseline: where the site is hosted, what it runs on, what is out of date, what is exposed and who has access.
Domain, hosting, SSL and admin credentials collected into one register that your business owns.
In how the work runs
Uptime monitoring with a named responder, so a failure is noticed by us before it is noticed by a customer.
Backups taken daily and restored on a test schedule, with the restore time recorded.
Platform, theme and plugin updates applied on a staging copy first, then released with a change note.
In sales and marketing
Campaign traffic and referrals land on a working, secure page, so the enquiries you pay for are not lost to downtime.
Fewer emergency developer bills, because failures are prevented or rehearsed rather than improvised.
In what management can see
A valid certificate, a clean security status and a responsive server, which browsers and search engines reward with fewer warnings.
Over the longer term
A website you can build on, because the foundation is documented, current and owned by you rather than by whoever set it up.
We control the hosting setup, the security configuration, the backup and update schedules, the monitoring and the reporting. Enquiry volume depends on traffic and on the pages themselves; what this service protects is that enquiries you would have received are not lost to outages or breaches.
Who it is for
The website matters to sales here, and nobody is currently minding it.
The businesses it suits
Owners and marketing heads of Indian SMBs whose website receives paid or referral traffic that an outage would waste.
Businesses running WordPress, Laravel or custom-built sites on shared hosting bought years ago and never revisited.
Companies whose developer or agency has moved on, leaving nobody with the hosting login or the update habit.
Clinics, hospitals, schools and firms that collect enquiries with personal details and need the form and the server protected.
Manufacturers and distributors whose site carries catalogues and dealer pages that partners use every day.
Businesses that have already been hacked, defaced or blacklisted once and do not want to repeat the recovery.
What usually prompts the call
The site went down during a campaign or a season and nobody knew until a customer said so.
A browser or search engine flagged the site as not secure or as containing malware.
The developer who set up the hosting is no longer reachable, and a renewal or a failure is coming.
A new website is about to launch and the question of where it will live has not been answered.
An enterprise customer, auditor or bank has asked how your website and the data it collects are protected.
What Gully Sales does
The work, component by component.
Technical baseline
A full inventory of the site as it stands: hosting provider and plan, server software, platform and plugin versions, open services, DNS records, certificate status, admin accounts and who holds them, and the backup that does or does not exist.
Why it matters:
You cannot secure or migrate what you have not listed, and most incidents trace back to something nobody knew was there.
You receive:
Baseline report with a ranked list of exposures and a credential and renewal register.
Business value:
The business finally owns a complete picture of its website, in writing, before anything is changed.
Managed hosting and uptime
The site is moved to, or set up on, a managed server sized for its traffic, with the web server, database and caching configured for the platform it runs. Uptime and certificate monitors check the site continuously and alert a named responder.
Why it matters:
Shared hosting bought on price shares its problems too; a monitored server with a responder turns downtime from a surprise into a managed event.
You receive:
Migrated or newly provisioned site, DNS cut-over, monitoring with alerts to us and to you.
Business value:
Failures are seen and worked on before customers notice, and the record shows how long each one lasted.
Backups and recovery
Daily backups of files and database stored away from the server, retained on a schedule, and restored to a test environment at fixed intervals so the procedure and the timing are known.
Why it matters:
A backup that has never been restored is a hope, not a plan. The restore test is the product.
You receive:
Backup schedule, off-server storage, documented restore procedure and a restore test log.
Business value:
A bad update, a hack or a server failure becomes a known number of hours, not an open-ended rebuild.
Security hardening
HTTPS enforced with an auto-renewing certificate, a web application firewall, login protection and two-factor access for admins, malware scanning, file-change alerts, and removal of unused plugins, themes and accounts.
Why it matters:
Most SMB sites are compromised by automated scans looking for known weaknesses, not by targeted attacks. Closing the common doors removes most of the risk.
You receive:
Hardening checklist applied and signed off, with a before-and-after exposure comparison.
Business value:
Prospects, browsers and search engines see a clean, secure site, and your enquiry data is protected.
Updates and patching
Platform, theme and plugin updates reviewed on a calendar, applied first on a staging copy, checked against the forms and pages that matter, and then released with a short change note.
Why it matters:
Updates are deferred because they have broken things before. Staging removes the fear, and the calendar removes the backlog.
You receive:
Update calendar, staging environment and a change log your team can read.
Business value:
The site stays current without the site going down, and nobody has to choose between the two.
Server-side speed
Caching, compression, image delivery and database settings configured at the server level, with speed readings taken before and after so the effect of the hosting change is visible.
Why it matters:
A slow server undoes good pages, and hosting is where the first and cheapest gains usually sit. Deeper page-level optimisation is a separate service.
You receive:
Server configuration applied, with page-speed readings recorded in the baseline and the monthly report.
Business value:
Pages respond faster from the first request, which visitors and search engines both notice.
Support model and reporting
A defined way to reach us, a defined response commitment for outages and for routine requests, an incident runbook, and one monthly report covering uptime, incidents, backups, updates, threats blocked and speed.
Why it matters:
Hosting without a support model is still nobody's job. The report is how a non-technical owner knows the job is being done.
You receive:
Support channel and response commitments in writing, incident runbook, monthly report.
Business value:
You know who to call, what will happen and what happened last month, without reading a server log.
What you will have at the end.
Technical baseline report: hosting, stack, versions, exposed services, access list and ranked risks.
Credential and renewal register for domain, DNS, hosting, SSL and admin accounts, owned by your business.
Migration or setup on a managed server sized for your traffic, with DNS cut-over handled.
Uptime and certificate monitoring with alerts to a named responder and a copy to your inbox.
Daily off-server backups with a documented restore procedure and a periodic restore test record.
SSL certificate installed and auto-renewed, with HTTPS enforced across every page.
Web application firewall, login protection, malware scanning and file-change alerts configured.
Update calendar for platform, theme and plugins, applied on staging and released with a change note.
Server-side caching and compression configured, with page-speed readings before and after.
Monthly report covering uptime, incidents, backups taken and tested, updates applied and threats blocked.
Incident runbook: who to call, what happens, and how recovery is confirmed.
How it runs
The engagement, step by step.
1
Audit and baseline
We inspect the live site, its hosting account, DNS, certificate, platform versions, plugins, users and backups, and write down what we find and how risky each item is.
You provide:
Hosting, domain and site admin access, or the contact who has it.
We produce:
Technical baseline report and ranked exposure list.
Done when:
You have read the baseline and agreed what needs fixing first.
2
Access and ownership
Every login and renewal is traced, transferred into accounts your business controls, and recorded in a register. Unused accounts are removed and admin access is restricted to named people.
You provide:
A decision on who in the business owns each account and the billing method.
We produce:
Credential and renewal register, with ownership confirmed.
Done when:
Nothing about the website depends on a person who has left.
3
Migrate or harden
If the current hosting is unfit, we provision a managed server, move the site, test it on a temporary address and cut over DNS. If the hosting is sound, we harden it in place. Either way the security checklist is applied.
You provide:
A window for the cut-over and a list of forms and pages that must be checked.
We produce:
Live site on secured hosting, hardening checklist signed off.
Done when:
The site opens over HTTPS from the new setup and every listed form has been submitted and received.
4
Backups and monitoring
Daily backups are configured to off-server storage, the restore procedure is written and run once to time it, and uptime and certificate monitors are pointed at the site with alerts to a named responder.
You provide:
The email or phone contact that should receive alert copies.
We produce:
Backup schedule, first restore test record, live monitoring.
Done when:
A restore has been completed and timed, and a test alert has reached both us and you.
5
Updates on staging
A staging copy is created. Pending updates are applied there, the important pages and forms are checked, and the updates are released to the live site with a change note. The calendar for future updates is set.
You provide:
Confirmation of which pages and forms matter most.
We produce:
Staging environment, cleared update backlog, update calendar and change log.
Done when:
No update is pending on the live site and the next cycle is scheduled.
6
Handover and runbook
We walk your team through the register, the support channel, what an alert means and what happens during an incident, and leave a runbook that says who does what and how recovery is confirmed.
You provide:
An hour with the people who will call us when something looks wrong.
We produce:
Incident runbook and support commitments in writing.
Done when:
Your team can explain what happens if the site goes down, without calling us to ask.
7
Ongoing care and reporting
Monitoring, backups, restore tests, update cycles and scans run on their schedules. Incidents are handled and logged. Each month you receive one report and a short note on anything that needs a decision.
You provide:
A monthly reading of the report and decisions where asked.
Each month's report is delivered and open items are agreed.
Ways to work with us
Choose the level of care that matches how much the website matters.
Setup and handover
Baseline, ownership register, migration or hardening, backups, monitoring and a runbook, then handed to your team or IT provider to run. Suits businesses with someone able to take over.
Managed hosting and security
Everything in setup, plus we run it: monitoring with a responder, backups and restore tests, update cycles, scans and the monthly report. Suits businesses with nobody technical in-house.
Security on your existing hosting
You keep your current host or cloud account; we apply the baseline, hardening, backups, updates and reporting there. Suits businesses tied to a provider by contract or by other systems.
Hosting within a build or redesign
When Gully Sales is building or rebuilding your site, hosting and security are set up as part of the launch, so the new site never spends a day on an unwatched server.
Recovery engagement
For a site that is hacked, blacklisted or down now: clean, restore, harden and get the warnings removed, then move to one of the options above so it does not happen again.
Why Gully Sales
What you are actually choosing when you choose us.
We treat hosting as part of the revenue system.
Gully Sales builds and improves the systems that produce enquiries for Indian SMBs. Hosting and security sit inside that system, so we judge them by whether the site can keep taking enquiries, not by server specifications.
We test the backup, not only take it.
Every engagement includes a restore that is actually performed and timed, and the test is repeated on a schedule. The number that matters is how long recovery takes, and we record it.
Updates go through staging, so a fix never becomes an outage.
No update touches the live site until it has been applied on a copy and the forms and pages that matter have been checked. The backlog clears and the fear that caused it goes away.
You own every login and renewal.
Domain, DNS, hosting, certificate and admin accounts are moved into accounts your business controls and recorded in a register you keep. If you ever leave us, nothing needs to be unpicked.
One monthly report a non-technical owner can read.
Uptime, incidents, backups taken and tested, updates applied, threats blocked and speed, on one page in plain language, with a note on anything that needs your decision.
The team that builds and converts the site keeps it running.
Because the same people work on structure, content and conversion, hosting decisions are made with the enquiry form and the campaign calendar in view, not in isolation.
Where it applies
The same service, in different businesses.
Industry
The situation
How it applies
Likely benefit
Healthcare
A clinic collects appointment requests with names, phone numbers and conditions through its website, on hosting nobody has looked at since launch.
Baseline and hardening, HTTPS enforced, form data protected, admin access restricted to named staff, daily backups and monitoring with a responder.
Patient enquiries keep arriving, and the clinic can answer an auditor's question about how the data is protected.
Manufacturing and industrial supply
A manufacturer's site carries the catalogue, datasheets and dealer locator that distributors and buyers use daily, and it has gone down twice during trade-show weeks.
Migration to a monitored managed server sized for peak traffic, server-side caching, uptime alerts and a runbook for the sales team.
Distributors and prospects find the catalogue when they need it, and the sales team hears about a problem from us, not from a dealer.
Education and training
An institute's admissions season sends most of its yearly enquiries through the website in a few weeks, on shared hosting that slows and fails under load.
Hosting sized for seasonal peaks, monitoring tightened during the season, backups before every change and a tested restore.
The admission window is not lost to an outage, and the team goes into the season knowing recovery is rehearsed.
Professional services
A consulting firm's site was defaced through an outdated plugin, and search results now carry a warning that prospects see before the firm's name.
Recovery engagement: clean and restore, remove the malware, request review of the warning, harden, then managed care with staging updates.
The warning is addressed, the door it came through is closed, and the firm's reputation stops being decided by a plugin.
E-commerce and D2C
An online store runs promotions that bring most of its orders in short bursts, and checkout failures during those bursts are discovered from customer complaints.
Managed hosting with capacity for campaign traffic, checkout and payment pages monitored specifically, certificate and firewall managed, backups before each promotion.
Promotion traffic reaches a working checkout, and problems are seen on the monitor before they are seen on social media.
Hospitality
A hotel's booking enquiries depend on a site whose certificate has lapsed twice, each time showing guests a browser warning for days.
Auto-renewing certificate, renewal register with alerts, uptime and certificate monitoring, and a monthly report to the owner.
Guests see a secure site every day of the year, and renewals stop depending on someone remembering.
Healthcare
The situation:
A clinic collects appointment requests with names, phone numbers and conditions through its website, on hosting nobody has looked at since launch.
How it applies:
Baseline and hardening, HTTPS enforced, form data protected, admin access restricted to named staff, daily backups and monitoring with a responder.
Likely benefit:
Patient enquiries keep arriving, and the clinic can answer an auditor's question about how the data is protected.
Manufacturing and industrial supply
The situation:
A manufacturer's site carries the catalogue, datasheets and dealer locator that distributors and buyers use daily, and it has gone down twice during trade-show weeks.
How it applies:
Migration to a monitored managed server sized for peak traffic, server-side caching, uptime alerts and a runbook for the sales team.
Likely benefit:
Distributors and prospects find the catalogue when they need it, and the sales team hears about a problem from us, not from a dealer.
Education and training
The situation:
An institute's admissions season sends most of its yearly enquiries through the website in a few weeks, on shared hosting that slows and fails under load.
How it applies:
Hosting sized for seasonal peaks, monitoring tightened during the season, backups before every change and a tested restore.
Likely benefit:
The admission window is not lost to an outage, and the team goes into the season knowing recovery is rehearsed.
Professional services
The situation:
A consulting firm's site was defaced through an outdated plugin, and search results now carry a warning that prospects see before the firm's name.
How it applies:
Recovery engagement: clean and restore, remove the malware, request review of the warning, harden, then managed care with staging updates.
Likely benefit:
The warning is addressed, the door it came through is closed, and the firm's reputation stops being decided by a plugin.
E-commerce and D2C
The situation:
An online store runs promotions that bring most of its orders in short bursts, and checkout failures during those bursts are discovered from customer complaints.
How it applies:
Managed hosting with capacity for campaign traffic, checkout and payment pages monitored specifically, certificate and firewall managed, backups before each promotion.
Likely benefit:
Promotion traffic reaches a working checkout, and problems are seen on the monitor before they are seen on social media.
Hospitality
The situation:
A hotel's booking enquiries depend on a site whose certificate has lapsed twice, each time showing guests a browser warning for days.
How it applies:
Auto-renewing certificate, renewal register with alerts, uptime and certificate monitoring, and a monthly report to the owner.
Likely benefit:
Guests see a secure site every day of the year, and renewals stop depending on someone remembering.
Proof
Work we can point to.
Houzeome Interior Design Studio, Bangalore
The problem:
The studio needed to move from a generic web presence to a site of its own that reflected its actual portfolio and finished work, and to have that site running live on the studio’s own domain.
What we did:
Gully Sales built the site from the ground up on Laravel and Tailwind CSS, then took it live on the studio’s own domain with production hosting and SSL.
The result:
The study records a fully custom, production-live website at houzeome.com, secured with HTTPS.
What service levels, access and recovery provisions are included?
The support model is written into the engagement: how to reach us, how quickly we respond to an outage and to a routine request, and who is the named responder. Access is defined in the register, with admin rights restricted to named people and two-factor login where the platform allows. Recovery provisions cover daily off-server backups, a documented restore procedure, restore tests at fixed intervals with the time recorded, and an incident runbook. The exact response commitments depend on the option you choose and are set out in the quote.
How long does the engagement take?
The setup phase runs from the audit through migration or hardening, backups, monitoring, staging updates and handover. How long that takes depends on what the audit finds: a small site on sound hosting is quicker than a large site being moved off a failing provider. We give you a schedule after the baseline, not before it. Ongoing care then continues month by month for as long as you want the site looked after.
What inputs are required from my side?
Access to the hosting account, domain registrar, DNS and site admin, or the contact who holds them. A decision on who in the business will own each account and how it is billed. A list of the forms and pages that matter most, so we check them after every change. A contact for alert copies, a window for any cut-over, and an hour for the handover. After that, a monthly reading of the report and decisions where we ask for them.
How is success measured?
Against the baseline, on the metrics in the monthly report: uptime, time to detect and restore incidents, backups taken and restore tests passed, updates applied, threats blocked and page speed. We also watch form completion and conversion on the pages the site depends on, because a silent failure of a form is as costly as an outage. The measure of a good year is that the site stayed up, recovered quickly when it did not, and nothing about it depended on luck.
What is excluded from scope?
Content changes, new pages, design work and feature development belong to website maintenance and support or to a build. Deep page-level speed work is its own service; we handle the server-side settings. Email hosting, office IT, laptops and internal networks are outside scope, though we will point you to what you need. Analytics setup and conversion tracking are separate. If the audit shows the site needs rebuilding rather than hosting, we will say so rather than host a site that cannot be secured.
Do I have to move my website to your hosting?
No. If your current hosting is sound, or you are tied to a provider by contract or by other systems, we apply the baseline, hardening, backups, updates, monitoring and reporting where the site already lives. We recommend a move only when the audit shows the current setup cannot be secured or monitored properly, or cannot handle your traffic, and we explain the reason in writing before anything changes.
Who owns the hosting account, the domain and the backups?
Your business does. Domain, DNS, hosting, certificate and admin accounts are transferred into accounts you control and recorded in a register you keep. Backups are stored where you can reach them. We hold the access we need to do the work, which is listed in the same register. If you ever end the engagement, you keep everything and nothing needs to be unpicked from our accounts.
What happens if the site is hacked or goes down?
The monitor alerts the named responder and sends you a copy. We follow the runbook: confirm the failure, isolate the cause, restore from the most recent clean backup if needed, close the door the problem came through, and confirm the forms and pages that matter are working. You receive a short incident note saying what happened, how long it took and what was changed to prevent it recurring. If a search engine or browser warning was raised, we request its review after the clean-up.
4 more questions
How is this different from website maintenance and support?
Hosting and security is about the ground the website stands on: the server, uptime, backups, certificates, firewall, patching and recovery. Maintenance and support is about the website itself: content changes, new pages, small features, fixes and the day-to-day requests from your team. Many businesses take both, and they fit together, but a site can be perfectly maintained on hosting that fails, or perfectly hosted while its content goes stale.
Which platforms do you host and secure?
WordPress and other common content platforms, Laravel and similar custom-built sites, and static sites. For hosted platforms such as Shopify, where the vendor runs the server, we cover the parts you control: domain, DNS, certificate, admin access, app and theme hygiene, and monitoring. The audit tells us which model applies to your site, and we say plainly if a platform is one we would not take on.
Where will my website be hosted, and is the data protected?
The server region is chosen with you, based on where your visitors are and on any requirement your customers, auditors or sector place on where data sits. The site runs over HTTPS, admin access is restricted and logged, the firewall and scanning are active, and enquiry data stays on the site and in the systems you have connected. We do not sell, share or use your visitors' data. What we set up and where is recorded in the baseline so you can show it to anyone who asks.
Will hosting changes affect my search rankings?
A move is planned so that URLs, redirects, certificates and DNS stay consistent, and the site is tested on a temporary address before the cut-over. Handled that way, the change itself is not something search engines penalise. A faster, secure server with fewer errors is generally a positive signal. We watch indexing and errors in the weeks after a move and report anything unusual, but we do not promise ranking movement from hosting alone.
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