Anyone know of, or have experience with, quality web hosting companies or dedicated server companies? I believe that is the direction we are going in. That way if and when I want to give this place to another dedicated person to run I can just hand over the password.
While there are limitations with it, I use Weebly, but I don't think that would probably work as well for something like TheSwamp.
I could see going in a couple of directions here:
Using a webhosting service, there are a lot of benefits in simplicity with this option, but quite often comes with a high cost and limited scalability if you have more users than the system can handle.
The other option would be to use something like AWS to run your own web server in the cloud. This would be a bit more complicated to setup at first, but once running would be the same as running a web server now. The advantage here is you can setup AutoScaling so if there is a heavy load on the server at any given time it can scale up by adding additional servers and then automatically scale down when demand is lower with this option you could be paying as little as $15-$20 a month including storage costs, depending on the amount of storage needed of course.
DISCLAIMER: We use AWS for everything, even running our workstations technically (yes we run AutoCAD and Revit on Remote Desktops on AWS), so I am a bit biased. Please reach out to me if you would be interested in learning more, it really could work well to ensure scalability when it is needed and that you aren't paying for what you aren't using when it isn't needed. Many large companies are going this route for their webhosting, as are some smaller companies due to the flexibility it offers. I know this sounds like an advertisement for AWS, but it isn't intended to be, I just want you to be able to consider all options.