- 20+ years professional development
- Elgin-based, working UK-wide
- Fixed-price proposals
- 90-day managed launch care
- PageSpeed 80+ on every build
- UK company & ICO-registered
- Cloudflare-protected
- Stripe secure payments
What we build on — and why it matters
Every site and system we build runs on Microsoft’s .NET — a mature, actively supported platform built for long-lived, security-sensitive business systems, and widely used across banking, healthcare and government. It’s not the cheapest option, but it’s one of the most secure and well-supported ones available.
We don’t use WordPress, Wix, or plugin-based systems. Outdated plugins are a common source of small-business website vulnerabilities — we avoid plugin-heavy platforms and deliberately maintain every dependency we do use.
The platform we use receives regular security updates from Microsoft, has a public roadmap, and has a defined support lifecycle — so you’re never left on software that’s been abandoned.
Technical detail
- Platform: Microsoft .NET (LTS releases)
- Language: C#
- Framework: ASP.NET Core / Razor Pages
- Why: Strong type system, built-in dependency injection, excellent performance, Microsoft long-term support
- Packages: NuGet — audited on every build for known vulnerabilities
- No plugins: Every dependency is a deliberate choice, reviewed and maintained
Technical detail
- Standard: OWASP Top 10
- Scanner: OWASP ZAP (automated, runs on every deployment)
- Headers: CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy
- Dependencies: Vulnerability alerts via NuGet audit on every build
- Reporting: Scan results visible in client portal dashboard
- Ongoing: Automated scans continue post-launch, not just at build time
Every site is tested for vulnerabilities — automatically
Before any site goes live, and continuously after, it’s tested against a checklist of the most common ways websites get attacked. This isn’t a one-off review — it happens automatically every time we make a change.
We also check every software library the site uses for known security problems. If a vulnerability is discovered in something your site depends on — even months after launch — we get alerted and apply the fix.
The results are surfaced in your client portal so you can see the status of your site’s security at any time, without needing to ask.
Why your email setup matters more than you think
If your email isn’t set up correctly, two things happen: legitimate emails from your domain end up in spam, and attackers can send emails pretending to be you. Both are common. Both are avoidable.
Every domain we host is configured with the full set of email authentication records — the ones that tell email providers like Gmail and Outlook that your emails are genuine, and that nobody else is allowed to send on your behalf.
We also set up reporting so you can see if anyone is trying to spoof your domain — something most businesses have no visibility of.
Technical detail
- SPF: Sender Policy Framework — defines which servers can send on your behalf
- DKIM: DomainKeys Identified Mail — cryptographic signature proving email origin
- DMARC: Tells receiving servers what to do with emails that fail SPF/DKIM checks
- TLS-RPT: Reporting on failed encrypted connections to your mail server
- Monitoring: DMARC aggregate reports reviewed for spoofing attempts
Technical detail
- Pipelines: Azure DevOps — branch-triggered, gated deployments
- Secrets: Azure Key Vault — no credentials in code
- Staging: Every project has a separate test environment
- Security gate: OWASP ZAP runs before anything is promoted to live
- Rollback: Every deployment can be reversed to the previous version
- IaC: Terraform for cloud-hosted platforms
Updates are automated and repeatable — not done by hand
Every change goes out through an automated process — the same steps run every time, so nothing is forgotten and nothing is done from memory. For cloud-hosted platforms, the infrastructure itself is written as code, so it’s documented and can be rebuilt from scratch.
Changes to your site go through a staging environment before they reach your live site. The automated deployment process runs the security scanner, checks the build, and only promotes to live if everything passes.
No credentials or passwords are stored in code — ever. They live in a dedicated secure vault managed by Microsoft.
We know when something’s wrong before you do
Your site is watched around the clock. If it goes down, if it starts responding slowly, if a backup fails, or if a security scan flags something new — we get alerted automatically. You don’t find out when a customer emails you.
Every error that happens on your site is logged, so if something breaks we can see exactly what went wrong and when — not just that something went wrong.
In your portal you get a clear, live view of what matters to you — your site’s uptime and the security issues we’re handling. The deeper telemetry runs on our side, so we catch and fix problems without you having to watch a dashboard.
Technical detail
- Uptime: External monitoring with alerting on downtime
- Errors: Structured logging — every exception captured with context
- Performance: Page speed, response times, resource usage
- Backups: Daily automated backups with restore testing
- Security: Vulnerability scan results, lifecycle alerts (.NET EOL, dependency advisories)
- Portal: Your uptime and open security issues, visible any time
Technical detail
Standard hosting
- Hosting: Dedicated UK VPS — containerised, Linux-based infrastructure
- Protection: Cloudflare — caching, DDoS protection, bot filtering
- SSL: Automatic certificate provisioning and renewal
- Secrets: Azure Key Vault — no credentials stored on the server
- Backups: Daily automated
Platforms (optional — Azure)
- Compute: Azure App Service
- Database: Azure SQL / PostgreSQL
- Storage: Azure Blob Storage
- For: SaaS and business-critical platforms, sized per project
Protected, monitored, and properly set up
In front of every site sits Cloudflare — a web security service that filters out malicious traffic, absorbs attacks before they reach your server, and caches your content globally so it loads fast wherever your visitors are.
Standard sites run on our own dedicated UK-based VPS infrastructure, with daily backups and automatic SSL — containerised, so every deployment is consistent and repeatable, on your own resources rather than shared with strangers.
For larger, higher-traffic, or business-critical platforms — like a SaaS product — we deploy to Microsoft Azure, with the uptime and redundancy that goes with it. Azure is sized and priced per project; get in touch.
Security certificates (the padlock in your browser) are provisioned and renewed automatically. You’ll never get an email saying your certificate expired.
Passwords and keys are never stored on the server or in your site’s code — they live in a dedicated secure vault (Azure Key Vault).
Want to see the process from your side?
How scoping, fixed-price proposals, staged payments, and handover work — from first conversation to launch day.
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If there’s something specific about how we work that you’d like to understand better — before commissioning work or just out of curiosity.
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