Footprint-Free hosting is our hosting for private blog networks (PBNs) and other sets of SEO sites. It is premium PBN hosting: every site runs on licensed LiteSpeed Enterprise on our own high-end servers, faster than most money-site hosting, and no other PBN host offers servers and performance this high-end. Every one of its plans includes the same features: the plans differ only in how many sites they hold. Nothing below is an add-on or a higher tier.
Included on every Footprint-Free plan
- LiteSpeed Enterprise servers. Every site is served by licensed LiteSpeed Enterprise (not OpenLiteSpeed) with LSCache on our own high-end servers, faster than most money-site hosting. For PBN hosting no other PBN host offers servers and performance this high-end. Read more
- Bulk site actions. Run one action across many sites at once, on any site type, picking sites by hand, by group or every site matching the site-list filters: clear the CDN cache, change the PHP version, force HTTPS on or off, serve with or without www, country lock, scan for malware, clean malware (needs the Site Cleaner add-on; scanning is free), find a file and delete it from the sites it was found on, and delete sites (cancellable grace period). Each site's result is reported (done, skipped, failed). Dashboard: Sites, Bulk actions. Read more
- Bulk WordPress jobs. Across many WordPress sites in one job: update core, update plugins, install, activate, deactivate or remove a plugin, install a theme, apply a template, turn auto-updates on or off, find and replace text, and add missing featured images. Destructive jobs ask for a typed confirmation first. Read more
- WordPress manager. Every WordPress site in one view (health, core version, waiting plugin and theme updates, disk use, one-click login), and per site: plugins, themes, users (add, change role, reset password, remove), core and auto-update rules, maintenance mode, and flags on plugins with a known vulnerability. Read more
- Bring your own domain. Deploy a site straight onto a domain the customer already owns, keeping its DNS where it is or moving it to us; a temporary preview address works before the domain points. Read more
- Google indexing checks. Every domain is checked automatically for whether Google has it indexed, and again every week, so a site that drops out of the index shows in the dashboard (Domains, the domain, Index check). Daily checks of individual pages are the paid Index monitoring add-on. Read more
- One-click domain change. Change a site's primary domain from the dashboard (the site, Settings, Change domain). The new side is built, switched over and the old one removed as one job, SSL on both, and the customer chooses whether the old domain keeps serving as an alias. Read more
- SEO metrics per domain. Majestic Trust Flow and Citation Flow for every domain hosted, shown beside each site in the site list and on the SEO page, with no SEO-tool account needed. Read more
- Rank tracking. Keywords tracked in Google with their history kept; the number of keywords included is the plan's rank_keywords. More keywords are the paid Rank tracking add-on. Read more
- Domain history checker. Check a domain's WHOIS, expiry and authority before buying or pointing it, with warnings when a domain is close to expiring (Domains, Domain checker). Read more
- Backlink-crawler blocking. Ahrefs, Majestic, Semrush, Moz and other backlink crawlers are blocked at the edge while Google, Bing and every search engine keep full access. On by default for Footprint-Free (PBN) sites, switchable per site on any hosted site (the site, CDN, Crawler blocking). Read more
- Managed footprints. The footprint remover strips the traces that tie sites to one owner (WordPress version and generator tag, discovery links, XML-RPC and pingbacks, X-Powered-By and more) on every deploy; the number managed is the plan's managed_footprints. Read more
- CDN and DNS account pools. Each site can sit behind a different CDN and DNS account, from our pool or the customer's own connected accounts (bring your own CDN, e.g. their own Cloudflare accounts), balanced from live account state so sites never cluster on one account. Read more
- Wayback Machine restore. Rebuild an expired domain's old site from the Internet Archive, any capture date, and serve it as static HTML or WordPress. Read more
- Preview address before DNS moves. Every site gets a temporary address that carries nothing about its domain, so it can be checked before the domain points at us. Read more
- Site groups. Put sites in groups (by client, tier, project) and filter or run a bulk job on a group. Read more
- Outbound link tracker and editor. Every outside domain the sites link to, the posts each link is in, and a bulk editor that previews and can undo its changes. Read more
- Posting on a schedule. Plan a run of articles across sites or a group and watch, pause or move the queue. Read more
- Clone, hand over and recover sites. Clone a site, transfer it to another account, share it with a collaborator, and restore a deleted site for up to 90 days. Read more
- Export the site list. Download the sites on screen, with the same filters, as a CSV. Read more
- Request profiling. Every request is profiled on the server: which pages are slowest and which plugin or query takes the time (the site, Performance). Read more
- Site firewall. Per-site firewall rules, IP and country blocking, and known malicious plugins and phishing kits refused on install or upload, on top of the platform protection. Read more
- Daily backups. Automatic daily backups, kept for the plan's backup_retention_days, restorable in one click. Read more
- Free mailboxes. Mailboxes on every hosted domain, the count and size per the plan's mailboxes and email_box_gb. Read more
- Free SSL. SSL certificates issued and renewed automatically. Read more
- Object storage. S3-compatible storage buckets, the amount per the plan's object_storage_gb. Read more
The plan cards also show each site's disk, monthly bandwidth and file allowance, and the free mailboxes per domain.
Coming soon (not available yet)
- Bulk site creation. Creating many sites in one go (paste or upload a list) is being built and is COMING SOON: it is not available yet. Today each site is created on its own, and after that every bulk site action and bulk WordPress job works across all of them.
What costs extra
These are paid add-ons rather than part of a plan: daily index monitoring of individual pages, rank tracking beyond the keywords a plan includes, backlink monitoring, the PBN footprint checker, hourly backups, the PBN Performance Boost and AI webmaster reviews. Each has its own page with its price, under Add-ons.
Where to see it
The full list, with a page for each feature, is on PBN hosting. The AI assistant on our website knows this list too, so you can ask it whether a plan includes something.