Marie Server
Fully-managed WordPress hosting built on WordPress Multisite (MU), powered by PHP 8.2, styled with Astra + Elementor + Advanced Themer 12, and hand-tuned by people who've spent three decades shipping WordPress sites. You bring a logo — we deliver everything else.
All-In-One Package
One flat price. One full year of premium hosting. Professional design and setup included. The only WordPress launch package built by people who've been running WordPress hosting for three decades.
What Clients And Colleagues Say
Three decades of WordPress, hosting, and custom code under one roof. Here's what people who've worked with Seth — both at SolarBlu and earlier in his career — have said publicly on LinkedIn. Every name below links to the original profile so you can verify each quote yourself.
Seth is one of the most amazing web developers I've ever come across in my life. He responds quickly and offers great initial consulting at no charge.
Tim is an excellent resource for hosting problems and solutions and is a knowledgeable developer for WordPress.
Tim gives an extraordinary amount of time and attention, always going the extra mile. He took time to get to know my website, and ask me about goals beyond immediate tasks at hand. Supportive and reliable — I go directly to Tim anytime I work with Midphase.
Timothy has a very good sense of priority… If he makes a request to have some action taken, there is always a good reason, and he is very open to suggestions that would better assist everyone. His main goal is always what is good for the company, which makes him ideal management material. :)
Built By Hand. Refined Over Decades.
Six thousand websites shipped — and counting. The craft has evolved over the years: many of these started as Photoshop comps sliced and coded by hand, then we moved to hand-written CSS from blank files, then we layered in jQuery interactivity, and today we ship them on Astra + Elementor + Advanced Themer 12. Different tools, same obsession with beautiful, functional websites that earn their keep.
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02Windy city Law Firm
03Valley Process Inc
04Travel Directors
05Trader Outlook
06Sweet and Sour Chronicals
07Pedro Laboy
08Our Word is Bond
09Marie Hosting
10Rustica Template
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12The Marie Server Plugin Stack
Every plugin running on a Marie Server site has been chosen, tested, and tuned by SolarBlu engineers across three decades of WordPress work. No bloat, no random freemium add-ons — just a tight, professional toolkit covering security, performance, backups, SEO, e-commerce, design, ease-of-use, and the proprietary tools we've built ourselves.
Hardened & Watched
Enterprise-grade firewall, malware scanning, login protection, and threat intelligence — running before your site even goes live.
Off-Site Snapshots
Scheduled automated backups stored off-site with one-click restore. Verified routinely so the backup you trust is the one that actually works.
Search-Ready From Day One
On-page analysis, schema, XML sitemaps, breadcrumb navigation — your content positioned to rank.
Visual Editing Foundation
The world's most popular visual builder, paired with our exclusive Advanced Themer 12 and icon-enriched menus. You can edit your own site, forever.
Advanced Themer 12
Our exclusive plugin — now theme-independent and fully compatible with Astra + Elementor. Live CSS, layout tools, SEO enhancements, media utilities, all from one panel. Not sold anywhere else.
Capture, Verify, Route
Professional forms or custom CRM integration.
Sell Anything, Beautifully
Full WooCommerce storefront.
Optimized Visuals
30M-download gallery system, smart lightbox overlays, in-place media replacement, and embedded PDF viewers.
See What's Working
Page-level heatmaps and visitor recordings so you know exactly where your traffic clicks, scrolls, and bounces.
WordPress, Simplified
A curated set of admin-UX plugins that clean the dashboard, restore the classic editor, beef up TinyMCE, surface IDs, duplicate posts, and more — so non-technical owners stay confident.
Get Found, Get Shared
Social sharing buttons, profile widgets, testimonial sliders — bake credibility and reach into every page.
Operate With Confidence
Dashboard file manager for site ops, 125×125 ad slot management.
Advanced Themer 12
Built By Us, Yours Exclusively
Advanced Themer 12 is the design and control plugin we built at SolarBlu after years of running WordPress sites professionally. It started life as a theme-bound tool — version 12 marks the leap to a fully plugin-based architecture, which means it now works seamlessly with the Astra base theme and Elementor page builder we ship on every Marie Server site. Your CSS overrides, layout systems, SEO controls, and media management all live in one plugin.
Built for creators who demand flexibility without the bloat — clean, powerful, and only available through SolarBlu.
Learn About Advanced Themer 12 →- Live CSS control engine
- Custom fonts, spacing & hover states
- Layout builder for headers/footers
- SEO meta & schema controls
- Media optimization utilities
- Astra + Elementor compatible
- Theme-independent
- Ongoing support & updates
Why Astra As The Base Theme
Astra is one of the most respected lightweight themes in the WordPress ecosystem — under 50KB on the front-end, zero render-blocking by default, and beautifully clean code underneath. We use it as the structural starting point because nothing slow ever recovers, and we'd rather start fast and stay fast. SolarBlu's own visual styling is then layered on top through Advanced Themer 12, giving you Astra's speed plus our design language without a single line of theme-file editing.
Why Elementor As The Builder
Elementor is the most widely-used visual page builder on earth for a reason: it's flexible, well-supported, and easy enough that you can edit your own site long after we've handed it over. Every Marie Server site is constructed on top of Elementor and styled with Advanced Themer 12, so you get the freedom to tweak copy, swap images, and publish new pages on your own schedule — no developer required.
Already Have A Site?
Bring It Home To Marie Server.
Now is the time to take advantage of our expertise. Move your old PHP site, your outdated WordPress, your content, your media — even your Drupal install — onto a brand-new, fully-managed WordPress website operated by Seth and the SolarBlu team. With more than 30 years of experience and over 5 million lines of code shipped, we'll modernize, migrate, and manage your web presence end-to-end. Every customer gets their own custom child theme — never shared, never reused.
Site Migration
We migrate legacy PHP sites, outdated WordPress installs, and Drupal sites onto modern, fully-managed WordPress on the SolarBlu network. Content, media, URL structure, and SEO equity all carry over. You stop fighting fires; we start fresh.
- Old PHP → modern WordPress on PHP 8.2
- Outdated WordPress → clean managed environment
- Drupal → WordPress with structured content preserved
- Custom child theme built per customer
- URL/redirect mapping to protect search rankings
Custom PHP & API Integrations
Custom code, custom plugins, custom anything. We've been writing PHP since version 3 — bring your idea and let's talk through it. From small admin utilities to deep API integrations that wire your WordPress site into the systems your business actually runs on.
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Monthly Management
Hands-off WordPress, every month. Your $85/month management subscription includes one full hour of dedicated work — content updates, design tweaks, troubleshooting, training, anything you need. Additional time is billed at $85/hour.
Here's what makes Marie Server different: server administration, network maintenance, plugin updates, and theme updates are handled separately and don't eat into your monthly hour. We manage the server, we manage the network, we maintain the plugins, we maintain the themes — that's already baked into hosting. We also automate the routine tasks (backup verification, security scans, performance checks) so when you do use your hour, it's spent on things that actually move your business forward.
Landing Pages — $250
Need a focused, single-page conversion machine? We build custom landing pages on the same Astra + Elementor + Advanced Themer 12 foundation as Marie Server — optimized for speed, mobile, and the one thing landing pages exist to do: turn traffic into customers and ready to receive ad spend.
Real e-commerce revenue from real campaigns. Conversion-focused copy, conversion-focused structure, conversion-focused design — the formula has been refined over thousands of pages.
What Will He Design Next?
Solarbluseth is proudly creating the next batch of websites — for real estate, fashion, photography, e-commerce, fiber internet and beyond. Come check out the next chapter, see the studio in action, and find out what's being built right now.
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Three decades of WordPress, hosting, custom PHP, and design — still building, still shipping, still loving the craft. The next batch of websites is already in the studio, and the industries keep widening.
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Hear A Site Hosted On Our Network
Live sample below: — a full streaming radio site with a custom-built player, integrated and styled by us, served straight from the Marie Server network.
Managed WordPress Hosting, Migration & Custom Development
Marie Server is the flagship fully-managed WordPress hosting package from SolarBlu — the only launch service that bundles professional design, a hand-tuned plugin stack, custom child-theme development, and a full year of premium hosting into a single flat price of $799. Sites are built on the Astra base theme with Elementor as the page builder, styled and controlled through our exclusive Advanced Themer 12 plugin, and deployed on a WordPress Multisite (MU) network running modern PHP 8.2. The result is a website that's fast on day one, easy to update, and engineered to grow with your business.
Already have a website? SolarBlu migrates legacy PHP sites, outdated WordPress installs, and Drupal sites onto a clean, modern, fully-managed WordPress environment — content, media, and SEO equity preserved. Each customer receives a dedicated custom child theme, never shared and never reused. Need something built from scratch? Custom PHP development, jQuery interactivity, MySQL data work, and API integrations start at $80/hour, delivered by a developer with over three decades of experience and more than 5 million lines of code shipped. We speak PHP 5 through 8, jQuery, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, REST APIs, WordPress core/hooks, and WooCommerce — whatever your business function needs, from custom checkout flows to internal admin tools to third-party API bridges, we can build it.
The hand-curated plugin stack on every Marie Server site includes Wordfence Security and Jetpack for hardened protection, UpdraftPlus for off-site backups, Yoast SEO with Breadcrumb NavXT and WooCommerce, NextGEN Gallery and Flexible Lightbox for media, Crazy Egg for analytics and heatmaps, Contact Form 7 plus a deep set of admin-UX plugins (Admin Tweaks, Ultimate TinyMCE, MCE Table Buttons, Disable Gutenberg, Yoast Duplicate Post) that make WordPress feel approachable for non-technical owners. Need streaming audio? Shoutcast can be added on for live broadcast, internet radio, and podcast distribution.
The studio is actively designing the next batch of websites across real estate, fashion, photography, e-commerce, fiber internet, small business, restaurant, insurance, internet radio, and more — and the work is happening in the open. Follow along on the SolarBlu developer blog for behind-the-scenes updates on new themes, new plugins, and ongoing upgrades to Advanced Themer, or tune in to twitch.solarbluseth.com for live coding streams. A new Twitch-login-powered membership website service letting site owners deliver tiered content to subscribers based on their Twitch subscription level — perfect for creators who already have an engaged Twitch audience and want to extend the experience to a website.
Need a focused conversion machine instead of a full website? Our custom landing pages start at $250 each as a limited-time offer — built on the same Astra + Elementor + Advanced Themer 12 stack and engineered for performance. The last batch of landing pages we shipped generated over $2 million in e-commerce revenue for the businesses running them. Whether you need one page for a campaign or a whole funnel, we can build it. The portfolio behind this work runs deep: over 6,000 completed projects spanning the evolution of web design itself — from hand-sliced PSD comps, to bespoke CSS, to jQuery-powered interactivity, to today's modern Astra + Elementor + Advanced Themer 12 builds.
Once your site is live, monthly management runs $85/month with one full hour of dedicated work included. Additional time is billed at $85/hour. Server administration, network maintenance, plugin updates, and theme updates are handled separately and never count against your monthly hour — because that work belongs to us, not you. Routine processes are automated wherever possible so your hour is spent on the things that actually grow your business.
This is a limited-time sale at $799 — first come, first served — and once the slots are gone, they're gone. Lock in your year of fully-managed WordPress hosting today by calling (312) 869-4206. Payment accepted via CashApp, Zelle, or check (call to make arrangements). Marie Server is delivered by Seth at SolarBlu (Solarbluseth) — three decades of WordPress hosting, migration, support, and hand-built tooling, packaged into one no-friction launch.