web hosting &
management

Our web projects vary in time depending on complexity and depending on how quickly client’s come back to us with feedback as we go. If you have a deadline, we’ll work with you to accommodate it.

On average, our websites take between 2-4 weeks to complete from start to finish and we start projects within 2-3 days of you confirming you’d like to go ahead.

Good question, we’re glad you asked! You completely own your website – assuming you’ve paid us for it that is! We create your site using industry standard platforms, code and methods. That way, you’re free to use us to help maintain and develop it ongoing, or any other good designer or developer.

If you host with us, we undertake responsibility for its uptime, connectivity and server security.

Yes for sure! All of our website proposals include GDPR compliancy as standard. We provide:

• SSL Certificate – free for your first year with every new website build! This is the little padlock that shows in the url bar, that indicates that your site is secure.
• Cookie Notice & Policy – standard template which we can customise at your request
• Privacy Policy & Right to be Forgotten – standard template which we can customise at your request
• Regulated Payment & Data Input Systems
• Removal of any data storing software– if applicable
• Contact form ReCaptcha – triggers “I’m not a robot” for suspicious / spam visitors
• Opt-in check boxes for contact forms and newsletter signups

We like to keep things fair and simple. We take 50% of the total cost on commencement of the work before work can be carried out, and 50% upon completion and your final approval and sign off before the site goes live. We can also offer payment plans for those who are unable to pay in two payments.

All of our websites are custom quoted to suit your needs. We will always discuss your budget and our costs to ensure you are happy with it all before any work commences.

Absolutely. In fact, we’d prefer to as it allows us to look after your site ongoing and ensure its optimised and working for you. We have various hosting and maintenance services which we can tailor to suit your needs. We will discuss this as part of the proposal process.

If you have a current website with a different host, we can transfer the hosting over to our servers, or we can upload to your existing one – whatever your preference is, we’re here to help.

We can handle all of your hosting needs for you, and provide management of more services than the ‘budget’ online hosting companies. We maintain hardware, software, patches, security, uptime, connectivity and more.

Silvertoad was founded in 2008 with some distinct and unique philosophies. The idea was to provide high-end tech, web and development services to all, at budget prices. We pride ourselves on this simple principle and we work hard to offer more for less! We’ve invested in our team and our business from day one and all of the web and tech work we undertake is done internally with our own design, web and development teams.

You can be assured of total satisfaction, with no third parties to manage or worry about and better still, you can speak directly to any of the team members working on your projects.

If you’re a start-up or don’t have a website then we can offer you a free initial consultation an help you plan for your online presence.

So, first things first, if you have a website already, then we’ll run a free website assessment, audit and report on your site. In this we’ll check its structure, functionality and performance. We will also check to see if it’s secure and sturdy and then advise you of what we recommend.

We develop several websites a month and host and manage well over 250 different sites and systems and can offer you a stress-free service to help you get your site off the ground!