CloudLinux Invests in Seahawk to Help Hosting Providers Improve Retention and Grow High-Margin WordPress Revenue

Today, we are thrilled to announce CloudLinux’s strategic investment in Seahawk, a leading provider of white-label, expert-led WordPress services. 

CloudLinux and Seahawk are partnering to give hosting providers new opportunities to grow recurring revenue and strengthen customer loyalty. Through this collaboration, hosters can differentiate their Managed WordPress offerings, and provide professional on-demand WordPress services powered by Seahawk’s expert team, fully branded as their own. 

In this blog post, we share more details behind the “why” of this decision.

The Future of Hosting is More Than Servers

For years, CloudLinux's mission has been to provide the most stable, secure, and high-performance infrastructure so that hosting providers can grow their business. But we see a clear shift in the market. End-users no longer just want server space. They need a partner to help them launch, maintain, and grow their online presence. They need easy-to-launch websites, reliable ongoing maintenance, critical security updates, and performance care.

In the Age of AI, the Human Touch is the Differentiator

As AI automates more simple tasks, the true differentiator for customer loyalty will be high-touch, expert-led human care. When a site is hacked, when Core Web Vitals are failing, or when a critical plugin update breaks a layout, customers don't want a bot - they want an expert.

This is why we invested in Seahawk.

Our goal is to enable our hosting partners to grow revenue and customer loyalty with Seahawk's services that come in a range of flexible go-to-market models, including Revenue Share, White-Label, Affiliate, Co-branded, fully managed setup, and more.

What This Partnership Means for CloudLinux Hosting Partners

This partnership empowers our partners to instantly become a one-stop-shop for all their customers' WordPress needs, all under their own brand, and without the need to invest in headcount.

• Launch New, High-Margin Recurring Revenue Streams: Partners can now sell a full suite of white-label professional WordPress services with no upfront costs. This includes monthly maintenance plans, custom website builds, speed optimization, and more, all on a simple revenue-share model.
• Proactively Reduce Churn: Instead of losing customers over a slow or hacked site, you can now be the hero. This partnership provides the expert team to fix hacked sites, optimize for Core Web Vitals, and keep customers safe and online.
• Activate and Retain More Customers: Onboard new signups with professional "QuickSite Launch" services, ensuring they get value from your platform immediately and increasing their lifetime value.
• Reduce Technical Support Load: Free up your internal support teams. Seahawk's team acts as a backstop, handling the complex, time-consuming WordPress site-layer issues, so you can focus on the infrastructure.

Ultimately, you can now provide a better end-product to your customers. They get:

• Faster, safer, more beautiful and reliable websites.
• Peace of mind with proactive protection and performance.
• Experienced human WordPress experts behind the scenes ensuring their site just works.

This investment is about providing you, our partners, with the tools to move up the value chain. It’s about enabling you to build deeper, stickier relationships with your customers by solving their most pressing problems.

We are excited to partner with the Seahawk team and to help our partners thrive. To learn more about launching your own white-label WordPress services program,