Our founder, Micah Stickle, never planned to start a hosting company. For years, he ran his web design agency in Virginia, managing hosting for clients since 2019. Everything worked fine. The hosting provider was U.S.-owned. Support answered quickly. Websites stayed online. Then January 2025 changed everything. Sites started crashing daily. Support tickets took days to answer, and responses felt like they came from people who hadn’t even read the problem. Speed tests revealed their “premium” NVMe hosting was running slower than 10-year-old hard drives. That’s when Micah discovered the truth. Their trusted American hosting company had been secretly sold to an overseas corporation. No announcement. No warning. They just took the money and stopped caring.

Micah searched for months for a better solution. Every hosting company had the same problems. Owned by massive corporations or overseas companies. Running outdated software. Prices that jumped after the first year. Support that couldn’t solve real problems. He realized there were no good options left for businesses that actually need their websites to work. That’s when he decided to build Stratiom. Not another faceless corporation, but a small business in Virginia with real people who understand WordPress and business. A hosting company built on honest pricing, guaranteed uptime, and U.S.-based support that actually helps. As a business owner himself, Micah knows that downtime always means lost money, slow websites always mean lost customers, and bad support always means lost sleep.

No overseas call centers. No waiting days for answers. Our U.S.-based support team understands WordPress, works your hours, and ensures your website performs flawlessly around the clock.

Your business data never leaves the United States. Unlike hosting companies that route through foreign data centers, Stratiom keeps your information secure under U.S. privacy laws and regulations you can trust.