We started Iridium in 2014 because we were tired of fixing other people’s hosting decisions. The shared hosts were oversold. The “managed” hosts were aimed at agencies and priced like it. The reseller hosts were just shared with a different invoice.
So we built the kind of host we wanted to use. WordPress only. A small fleet. A stack we tune ourselves. Migrations done by hand. And, most importantly, a support team made of the people who actually run the servers — not a tier-one queue between you and them.
A decade later, the company is intentionally still small. The fleet is bigger, the stack is faster, and the customers stay longer. The math isn’t a secret: a small house is the only one where the host actually knows the guests.