Hello, we are Awwwsome!
We’re a small design and development studio that builds WordPress sites, custom web apps, and hosts it all, too.
A small studio, on purpose.
Hey, I'm Bartek!
I started Awwwsome in 2018 after running into the same two problems over and over — both in my own work and watching other businesses deal with them.
The first was hosting. Every few months, someone I knew would get hit with a hacked WordPress site, or an unexpected bill, or just hours of downtime with no explanation. The hosting industry treats small sites like an afterthought, and it shows.
The second was the “agency experience”. You hire a company, but the person you actually talk to is an account manager who relays everything to the team. The people doing the work? You never meet them. Things get lost. Timelines slip. Nobody seems to own the problem.
Awwwsome exists because we think it should work differently. We keep the team small and tight so the people working on your project are the same people you talk to. No layers. No handoffs. No account managers playing telephone.
For specialized or larger projects, we bring in trusted collaborators we’ve worked with for years. But the core relationship stays the same — you always know who’s responsible for your work, and you can always reach them directly.
This page is everything you need to know about working with us. It’s a bit of a read, but we’d rather be thorough than vague. Grab a coffee.
What we actually do.
Design & Development
This is the core of what we do — designing and building websites and web applications. Most of the sites we build run on WordPress, but not all of them. The tool depends on the problem.
What we care about is that whatever we build actually works for your business. Not just looks nice in a portfolio screenshot, but genuinely helps — loads quickly, makes sense to your visitors, and doesn’t break when you try to update a page six months later.
A typical project might look like:
- A company website that needs to clearly explain what you do and bring in leads
- A redesign of something that’s grown messy over the years
- A custom web application that solves a specific workflow problem
- A calculator, configurator, or interactive tool that lives inside your existing site
We don’t do templates. Everything is designed from scratch for your specific situation.
We also don’t disappear after launch. Our best work happens with clients we know well — when we understand your brand, your codebase, your goals, and your quirks. That’s why many of our clients work with us on a monthly retainer. A set number of hours reserved for you each month, used for whatever you need: new features, design updates, landing pages, bug fixes, ongoing improvements.
It’s less “hire an agency for a project” and more “have a development team on call that already knows everything about your business”.
"Awwwsome has been an extension of our team for years. For a medium-sized company like us where it doesn't make sense to have an engineering team in-house, Awwwsome is the perfect solution. The value they provide to our business makes their services extremely affordable. They are incredibly responsive. Project estimations and turnaround times are phenomenal. We love how transparent they are with all of their work and their communication is thorough and timely. Awwwsome handles all of the technical side of our online business so that we can focus on what we do best and grow. I highly recommend their services."
WordPress Hosting & Maintenance
This is where Awwwsome started, and honestly, it’s still the thing we’re most proud of. We currently host and maintain 35+ WordPress sites.
Here’s what frustrated us about hosting before we started offering it ourselves: most hosting companies give you a server and walk away. WordPress needs more than a server. It needs someone paying attention — updating plugins before they become security holes, checking that backups actually work, noticing when a page starts loading slowly, and fixing things before you even know they’re broken.
That’s what we do. Every site on our platform gets:
- Daily backups stored for 60 days and tested regularly
- Daily security scans that catch problems early, not after your visitors do
- Daily performance checks so we know your site slows down before you do
- WordPress core, theme, and plugin updates handled carefully, not just auto-updated and hoped for the best
- A global CDN so your site loads fast regardless of where your visitors are
- Image optimization so you can upload whatever you want, while we make sure it doesn’t tank your page speed
- Email delivery through Postmark so your contact form submissions and order confirmations actually arrive
- 24/7 automated monitoring to know your site goes down at 3am, the systems catch it immediately
The infrastructure runs independently — automated monitoring, automated backups, automated recovery, around the clock. Reliability doesn’t depend on whether anyone’s had their coffee yet.
The most common thing we hear from new hosting clients is some version of “I didn’t realize how bad my old setup was until I switched.” That’s not a sales pitch — it’s just what happens when people who understand WordPress are actually watching your site.
Open-Source App Hosting
This one’s newer, but growing quickly. A lot of businesses use SaaS tools — analytics platforms, document signing, automation tools, internal databases — and pay per seat, per month, forever. The costs add up, and you never really own your data.
Many of these tools have open-source alternatives that are genuinely good. The catch is that setting them up and keeping them running requires technical know-how. That’s where we come in.
We host and manage open-source applications on dedicated infrastructure. You get the full application, no seat limits, no artificial restrictions, and your data stays on your server. We handle the installation, updates, backups, and monitoring.
Some of the apps we host most often:
n8n
What it does:
Workflow automation
Replaces:
Zapier, Make, Active Pieces
Matomo
What it does:
Web analytics
Replaces:
Google Analytics
DocuSeal
What it does:
Document signing
Replaces:
DocuSign
NocoDB
What it does:
Spreadsheet-database
Replaces:
Airtable
Metabase
What it does:
Business intelligence & dashboards
Replaces:
PowerBI
Grafana
What it does:
Monitoring & observability
Replaces:
Datadog, New Relic
Mautic
What it does:
Marketing automation
Replaces:
Mailchimp
Penpot
What it does:
Design & prototyping
Replaces:
Figma
Twenty
What it does:
CRM
Replaces:
Salesforce/HubSpot CRM
Plane
What it does:
Project management software
Replaces:
Jira/Linear
Passbolt
What it does:
Password manager
Replaces:
1Password, LastPass, Dashlane
AnythingLLM
What it does:
All-in-one AI application platform
Replaces:
ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot
And that’s just a starting point — we can host any open-source application for you. If there’s a tool you’re paying too much for, there’s a good chance we can self-host an alternative.
Who we've worked with.
We’ve worked with companies across a pretty wide range — digital agencies, life sciences, sports nutrition, entertainment, venture capital, cleaning services, petroleum, IoT. The common thread isn’t the industry. It’s that these are businesses that wanted a reliable technical partner, not a vendor they have to chase.
Here are some of the 50+ brands we’ve worked with:
digital agency
digital agency
entertainment
moving services
software
healthcare
industrial IoT
sports nutrition
digital agency
digital agency
cleaning services
life sciences
petroleum industry
venture capital
gift food delivery
Latest from Three W's
We write when we have something worth saying — about the work we do, the tools we use, and the things we learn along the way.
There's no single "best" WordPress host. There's only the right one for your situation. This post is an honest look at how hosting with Awwwsome compares to three well-known alternatives — WP Engine, Kinsta, and GoDaddy — and when each one makes sense. We're not going to pretend we're better at everything. We're a small studio. They're large companies. Those are different things, and they serve different needs.
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Bartek Hejnowicz
How we work.
We want to be upfront about a few things, because we think it saves everyone time.
- We’re a small team by choice, not by accident. That means you get real attention when we’re working together, but it also means we take on a limited number of projects at a time. If we’re at capacity, we’ll say so honestly and give you a realistic timeline.
- We prefer long-term relationships over one-off projects. Most of our clients have been with us for years. We like understanding your business deeply — it makes every interaction faster and the work better.
- We’re based in Central Europe (CET). We work with clients in the US, UK, and across Europe. Time zones haven’t been a problem — most communication is async anyway, and we’re flexible when meetings are needed.
- We’re direct. If something won’t work, we’ll say so. If an idea needs refinement, we’ll explain why and suggest alternatives. We’d rather have an honest conversation now than a messy problem later.
- We don’t do rush jobs. Good work takes the time it takes. We’ll give you a realistic timeline upfront, and we’ll stick to it.
How does a small team run a hosting platform?
By building systems that do the heavy lifting. Our hosting infrastructure runs independently — automated monitoring, automated backups, automated recovery, 24/7. The systems don’t need babysitting.
That frees us up to focus on the things that actually benefit from human attention: reviewing updates before applying them, catching the subtle performance issues that automated tools miss, and being available when you need to talk to someone who actually knows your site.
And your site is never locked in. Everything runs on standard, well-documented infrastructure. If you ever wanted to move, we’d help you do it. No hostage situations, no proprietary traps.
We think the real risk most businesses face isn’t their technical partner being too small. When you’re one of 50,000 accounts on a big platform, nobody’s watching your site specifically. We are.
"I have worked with few teams who are as responsive, capable, and dedicated as the Awwwsome team. We are located half a world away and yet they are always available and the communication is clear and timely. We were very impressed with their design sense and they proved their technical expertise. Awwwsome is our go-to team for the future."
Pricing
WordPress Hosting & Maintenance
Starts at $99/month
This covers hosting on our infrastructure, all the daily monitoring and maintenance described above, and direct support when you need it.
The base plan includes:
- 50 GB CDN bandwidth
- 10 GB SSD storage
- 200 optimized images/month
- 500 transactional emails/month
- 30-day backup retention
- Premium theme and plugin licenses included
Bigger sites or stores with more traffic need more resources — we’ll put together a plan that fits. We offer custom plans for businesses that require guaranteed uptime or response time commitments. If your site is critical to your operations and you need an SLA behind it, let’s talk about what that looks like.
Open-Source App Hosting
Starts at $59/month
You pay for the computing resources your application needs. No seat limits, no per-user fees, no setup charges.
The base plan includes:
- 100 GB bandwidth
- 5 GB SSD storage
- 512 MB RAM
- 100 transactional emails/month
- 7-day backup retention
- Installation, updates, and 24/7 monitoring
Need more power? Plans scale based on your actual usage.
Design & Development
Starts at $2,499
Every project is different, so we quote each one individually after understanding what you need. We’ll give you a clear scope, a fixed price, and a timeline before any work begins.
For ongoing work, we also offer monthly retainers — a set number of hours reserved for you each month at an agreed rate. This works well for clients who need regular updates, new features, or continuous improvements.
Let's talk.
If anything on this page resonated — or if you just have a question — we’d genuinely like to hear from you. No pressure, no sales call. Just a conversation about what you need and whether we’re the right fit.
Our company details
Awwwsome is a business registered in Poland (EU) under the ID PL9562279265.
Address
Włocławska 167, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
Frequently asked questions
Do you work with clients outside of Europe?
All the time. Most of our clients are actually in the US and UK. Everyone gets access to our ClickUp workspace — you can communicate with us inside your specific project or just use chat. Day-to-day communication is async, and we schedule calls when needed. Time zones haven’t been a problem.
How long does a typical project take?
Most projects take around 3 months from kickoff to launch. We’re fast on our end, but realistic timelines need to account for feedback loops, approvals, and content gathering on yours. We’d rather set an honest timeline than promise 4 weeks and spend 3 of them waiting on review rounds.
Can you work with our existing site?
Yes. We often take over sites built by someone else — redesigns, cleanups, performance fixes, or just moving to better hosting. We’ll do an audit first so there are no surprises.
What if we already have hosting?
Totally fine. We can build your site and hand it off, or help you migrate to ours if you’d prefer. One thing to note: if you stay on a third-party host, our maintenance agreement won’t include an uptime SLA since we can’t control the hosting environment. If uptime matters to you (and it should), that’s a good reason to have a conversation about our hosting.
Do you offer support after launch?
We do. Most of our clients stay with us on a hosting and maintenance plan after their project launches. For clients who need ongoing development work, we offer monthly retainers.
What's your tech stack?
WordPress for most websites, but we’re not dogmatic about it — the tool depends on the problem. For hosting, we run our own infrastructure: Nginx, MySQL, Redis, NVMe storage with dedicated CPU cores. No resold shared hosting, no overcrowded servers. For custom applications, we choose whatever fits the project best.
Can I see examples of your work?
We’re happy to share relevant examples in a conversation. We don’t keep a public portfolio partly because context matters more than screenshots, and partly because we take NDAs seriously. Reach out and we’ll walk you through work that’s relevant to your situation.
How do we get started?
Just reach out through the contact form. Tell us a bit about what you need, and we’ll set up a quick call to see if we’re a good fit. No commitments, no 47-slide pitch deck.