★ Hometown hosting from Dripping Springs, Texas ★

Small town up top. Enterprise underneath.

WordPress hosting with a hometown handshake and serious hardware below the surface, for businesses across the US, Canada and Mexico. Every site isolated, backed up daily and watched around the clock.

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30+ Years running Linux servers
90 Days of daily backups
99.9% Uptime guarantee
24/7 Eyes on your site

Under the hood

Built like a data center. Run like the general store.

You get the stack big companies pay for, set up and looked after by people who know your name. No call centers, no ticket roulette, no surprise upsells.

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Locked-down security
Every site runs in its own isolated container, walled off from its neighbors.
Built for speed
Ryzen 9 servers with Samsung Pro NVMe drives and DDR5 memory. We recommend LiteSpeed with Redis caching for WordPress, and run NGINX and Apache too.
Backups you can reach
Daily backups kept for 90 days, and you can restore them yourself any time.
Real people, real answers
Talk to the people who actually run the servers, 100% based in the US.

What we do

Three ways we pull our weight.

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No. 1

Managed hosting

Fast, isolated WordPress and WooCommerce hosting on Ryzen 9 servers, with a 99.9% uptime guarantee and staging built in.

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No. 2

WordPress care

Updates, security, backups and fixes handled for you, so you can get back to business.

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No. 3

Design and development

Websites, custom WordPress plugins and web apps, with or without WordPress. Bold, fast, accessible and built to last.

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Our story

Welcome to the Data Ranch.

We started Lone Star Data Ranch to give small businesses, nonprofits and growing teams the same hosting the big guys get, without the big-guy attitude.

30+ years of Linux administration
25+ years in web hosting
20+ years of WordPress experience
Free hosting grants for select nonprofits

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Hosting plans

Pick your plan.

Straight pricing, no contracts. Every plan includes SSL, daily backups, staging and real support.

Starter

One site, getting started

$4.99/mo

1 website + staging
2 GB storage
Up to 30k visitors a month
Daily backups, 90 days

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WordPress Advanced

Growing businesses

$14.99/mo

3 websites + staging
25 GB storage, Redis
Up to 60k visitors a month
10 email accounts

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High Traffic

Busy sites, best value

$49.99/mo

10 websites, 5 staging
150 GB NVMe, 10 GB DDR5
Up to 300k visitors a month
25 email accounts

Choose High Traffic

Every plan includes
✓ Free SSL
✓ Daily backups
✓ Staging site
✓ Isolated container
✓ US-based support

Need more?WooCommerce plans VPS plans WordPress care add-on, from $45/mo

Running a nonprofit? Your hosting might be on us.

We set aside free hosting for a limited number of 501(c)(3) organizations doing good work in their communities.

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Portfolio

Fresh off the ranch.

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Before

After

Competition BBQ · Full rebuild

Tipsy Brisket

A competition barbecue team's site, rebuilt from a 40-plugin tangle into a fast, bold home for recipes, gear reviews and a self-updating cookoff calendar.