About this concept

The most common complaint about hosting is the renewal price: a low first price that needs a long prepay, then renews at several times as much. Lowlight is built around the opposite: one price, printed limits and public status.

The look starts from the datacentre at night: a near-black page, thin lines, monospace labels and one green status light.

Sample data: every price, plan, limit, data centre, PUE figure, uptime number and incident. They are set in this site's admin and change everywhere at once.

Demo only: the terminal answers from that data and the test order creates nothing; the migration form checks what you type and sends nothing.

No real company is named as a customer or competitor, and there are no reviews or testimonials.

WordPress with the Blocksy theme and a child theme of coded page templates. Plans, data centres, incidents and questions are post types in Secure Custom Fields, edited in the classic admin screen.

The terminal, the five-year calculator, the VPS configurator and the status board are small JavaScript modules that read the same data the pages print, loaded only on the pages that use them.

Photo of the drive bays: Domaintechnik on Unsplash. Type: Geist and Geist Mono by Vercel (SIL Open Font License). Icons: Phosphor.

Benystudio designs and builds websites. Lowlight is one of its concept projects.