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20+ Years Inside This World
FatLab's founder built one of the first online political donation platforms in 2004, before any of the major fundraising tools existed and when everything was custom. Over two decades of work with advocacy organizations, think tanks, PACs, and political campaigns followed, including Senate, Congressional, and gubernatorial races. FatLab currently manages digital infrastructure for organizations operating at the highest levels of national political advocacy, responsible for sites that have processed millions in political contributions.
PACs, Campaigns, and Electoral Organizations
The stakes are high and the timeline is unforgiving. We manage donation platforms routing payments across multiple legal entities, congressional scorecard systems, CMDI Crimson CRM integrations, and 230,000+ user accounts through election cycles. When a major donor hits your site at 11pm on election night, it needs to work.
Read the Club for Growth Case Study →Think Tanks and Policy Organizations
Policy influence is built on content. We manage multi-site ecosystems publishing thousands of research papers, analyses, and commentary, connected across publications, optimized for discovery, and architected to scale as the organization's influence grows.
Read the AIER Case Study →What's Included in Advocacy and Policy Hosting
Security
Advocacy organizations get targeted. Not opportunistically, but deliberately, by motivated adversaries who know exactly when to attack. Cloudflare Enterprise WAF with custom rulesets, Imunify360 real-time malware scanning, hardened WordPress configurations for politically regulated donation systems, and DDoS mitigation tested against real attacks on real political infrastructure.
Maintenance
Weekly WordPress core, plugin, and theme updates tested in staging before deployment. For advocacy organizations, we verify that donation routing, CRM synchronization, compliance-critical form logic, and scorecard systems survive every update cycle. A broken donation form during a fundraising push is a crisis. We prevent it.
Performance
Your traffic doesn't scale gradually. A cable news segment, a legislative vote, a major endorsement: these events send thousands of visitors to your site in minutes. Redis Object Cache Pro, Cloudflare Enterprise CDN, Varnish page caching, and server architecture that has absorbed election-night traffic surges without a single outage.
Support
Direct access to developers who understand political organization workflows. Not a help desk reading from a script: the same team that built your donation routing, your CRM integration, your scorecard system. Average response time under 2 hours. When something breaks during a critical moment, we already know your infrastructure.
Included Infrastructure
Every advocacy and policy hosting plan includes the infrastructure FatLab has deployed across our political client portfolio.
Cloudflare Enterprise CDN + WAF: DDoS mitigation and Web Application Firewall with custom rulesets for politically targeted sites.
Imunify360: Real-time malware scanning and intrusion prevention.
Object Cache Pro with Redis: Sub-millisecond database performance under load.
Varnish/Breeze page caching: Full-page cache serving traffic spikes without touching PHP.
Daily automated backups: Off-site storage with tested restoration procedures.
Staging environment: Test donation flows, CRM changes, and major updates before they touch production.
Uptime monitoring: Immediate alerts with rapid response.
Advocacy and Policy Hosting Plans
Enterprise-grade infrastructure for organizations where downtime is not an option. Standard pricing with no setup fees and month-to-month billing.
Watch Dog Starter
$99/mo
Everything you need to keep your site secure, fast, and up to date.
- Premium WordPress hosting
- Cloudflare Enterprise CDN + WAF
- 24/7 monitoring & emergency response
- Weekly updates, SSL, backups
- SFTP, SSH & WP-CLI access
- No-cost whole-site troubleshooting support
Watch Dog Professional
$199/mo
Managed hosting plus a developer who knows your site.
- Everything in Starter
- 1 hour dev time included
- Proactive recommendations
Watch Dog Business
$349/mo
The right fit for most advocacy organizations.
- Everything in Professional
- 3 hours dev time included
- Dedicated point of contact
- Priority handling
Watch Dog Enterprise
$599/mo
For mission-critical political infrastructure.
- Everything in Business
- 8 hours dev time included
- First-priority queue
- Strategy calls & consulting
Multiple sites? Additional sites are $75/month each with pooled hours. Need more dev time? Additional hours available on any plan at $150/hr, billed in 15-minute increments.
Custom development for compliance-critical systems (donation routing, CRM integrations, scorecard systems) is scoped separately. Contact us to discuss your requirements.
Qualifying 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) organizations may be eligible for nonprofit pricing.
Why Advocacy Organizations Choose FatLab
vs. Generic Managed WordPress Hosts (WP Engine, Kinsta): They provide excellent infrastructure. They don't understand political compliance requirements, multi-entity donation routing, or what it means when your client is mentioned on cable news during a contested election. We do, because we've built those systems.
vs. Political Web Agencies: Campaign and advocacy agencies build great sites. Most of them don't manage hosting, don't maintain infrastructure between election cycles, and hand off to a generic host when the project is done. FatLab builds and then owns the ongoing operational relationship: through election cycles, off-cycle periods, and everything in between.
vs. DIY or In-House Management: Your digital director shouldn't be handling WordPress updates, debugging CRM sync failures at midnight, or configuring WAF rules during a DDoS attack. That's what we're for.
From the Portfolio
Club for Growth
Political Operations Platform
16+ year partnership. 230,000+ registered users. Donation routing across four legal entities. CMDI Crimson CRM integration with zero-loss failsafe. Congressional scorecard system. Zero outages through election cycles and targeted cyberattacks.
Read the Case Study →
American Institute for Economic Research
Multi-Site Policy Ecosystem
Three interconnected WordPress sites. Nearly 20,000 published research papers, news articles, and editorial content. 74+ research scholar profiles unified across publications via custom REST API. Enterprise performance architecture.
Read the Case Study →
"FatLab hosts multiple high-traffic websites for us, handling national media attention and large traffic spikes seamlessly. Over the past 10 years, we've experienced no slowdowns or outages. The FatLab team's quick response ensures our sites remain stable and secure."
Stacy French, Vice President, Digital, Club for Growth
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Have more questions? View all frequently asked questions.
Do you work with organizations across the political spectrum?
Yes. FatLab provides infrastructure and support to advocacy and policy organizations regardless of political orientation. Our role is technical: we build, host, and maintain WordPress infrastructure. We have worked with organizations on both sides of the aisle and treat every client relationship with the same level of professionalism and confidentiality.
How do you handle FEC disclaimer requirements on WordPress sites?
We have direct experience building FEC-compliant donation pages and disclaimer systems on WordPress. This includes proper paid-for-by attributions, multi-entity disclosure requirements, and ensuring that disclaimer language appears correctly across all donation flows and landing pages. We work with your compliance counsel to implement the technical requirements they specify.
Can you integrate WordPress with political CRM platforms like CMDI Crimson?
Yes. We have built and maintained production integrations with CMDI Crimson, including multi-entity donation routing and donor database synchronization with zero-loss failsafe handling. We also work with other political CRM and fundraising platforms. If you have an existing CRM, we can scope the integration as part of onboarding.
How does your security differ for advocacy organizations vs. standard clients?
Standard clients face opportunistic attacks: bots scanning for known vulnerabilities. Advocacy organizations face targeted attacks from motivated adversaries who time their actions around elections, legislative votes, or media moments. We configure Cloudflare Enterprise WAF with custom rulesets specific to political infrastructure, deploy Imunify360 for real-time malware scanning, and maintain hardened WordPress configurations designed for the threat profile these organizations actually face.
What happens to the site between election cycles?
Infrastructure doesn't take an off-cycle. We continue full maintenance, security monitoring, updates, and support between elections. This is when most organizations do their platform upgrades, content strategy work, and system improvements. Many of our advocacy clients use the off-cycle period to rebuild or expand functionality so they are ready when the next cycle begins.
Can you build multi-entity donation routing on WordPress?
Yes. We built and currently maintain a multi-entity donation routing system that directs contributions across four separate legal entities with distinct compliance requirements, integrated with Stripe payment processing and CMDI Crimson CRM. This is production infrastructure handling real political contributions, not a theoretical capability.
Do you offer rapid launch timelines for campaign sites?
Yes. Campaigns move fast and we can match that pace. For standard campaign sites on our existing infrastructure, we can typically go from kickoff to launch in days, not weeks. For sites requiring custom donation integrations, CRM connectivity, or compliance-specific functionality, the timeline depends on scope, but we prioritize speed because we understand campaign timelines don't wait.
How do you handle traffic spikes during high-visibility political moments?
We size infrastructure for the spike, not the baseline. Our hosting stack includes Redis Object Cache Pro, Cloudflare Enterprise CDN, and Varnish page caching, all configured to absorb sudden traffic surges. We have managed sites through election nights, cable news mentions, viral social media moments, and national media attention without a single outage or performance degradation.
Do you support think tanks and policy organizations in addition to electoral clients?
Yes. We manage multi-site WordPress ecosystems for policy research organizations, including sites with nearly 20,000 published items, 74+ scholar profiles, and custom REST API integrations connecting publications across multiple properties. Policy organizations have different needs than electoral clients: long-term content architecture, research publication workflows, and institutional scale. We support both.
Is my organization's client relationship kept confidential?
We understand that some advocacy and political organizations prefer discretion about their vendor relationships. We do not publicize client relationships without explicit permission, and we are happy to operate under NDA. The client references on this page are shared with permission from those organizations.