What is the failure budget?
Availability, recovery time, data-loss tolerance and traffic shape should drive hosting—not a favourite cloud logo.
Build UK products with the right checks in place.
Architecture becomes a business constraint when a system must stay fast, supportable and defensible after launch. These guides connect technical design to the UK operating context: data location, supplier responsibilities, accessibility, search visibility and handover risk.
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- guides & tools
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- linked at each claim
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- shipping since
Questions worth answering before you build
UK-focused guidance on hosting, GDPR, accessibility, performance, migrations, operational resilience and agency delivery.
Who controls the data?
Map controller, processor and sub-processor roles, locations and access before choosing infrastructure or an offshore delivery model.
What must survive a handover?
Repository, deployment, secrets, backups, observability and decision records are part of the product, not optional documentation.
How will users and crawlers experience it?
Rendering, accessibility and Core Web Vitals belong in acceptance criteria and release checks.
Put the guidance into practice
- 01Choose architecture from risk, traffic and team constraints.
- 02Keep production access least-privileged and auditable.
- 03Test restoration and rollback, not just deployment.
- 04Measure real-user performance after release.
Related guides and tools
Each guide states what the cited source supports, what still needs product or professional judgement, and how the integration fails in practice.
Site migration
Move from WordPress to Next.js without losing SEO
Score every legacy URL for demand, links, conversion and intent, then keep, redirect or retire it with single-hop rules and a tested cutover.
Read the guide →PHP securityPHP2Shell: a patch plan for Cyber Essentials and UK GDPR
Patch the critical PHP flaws within Cyber Essentials' 14 days, get proof from your host and decide whether a compromise needs an ICO report.
Read the guide →Agency handoverTaking over a website from another UK agency
Transfer verified control of domains, DNS, code, hosting, data, recovery, search and supplier access before accepting production responsibility.
Read the guide →HostingHow should a UK business host its application?
Choose a managed frontend, application platform, container service or dedicated cloud account from workload and recovery facts.
Read the guide →Shopify securityGive an AI agent safe write access to Shopify
Scoped custom apps, Theme Access passwords and 24-hour tokens instead of a staff login, with an Agent Blast Radius Score for the access you already gave.
Read the guide →Cookie consentCookie consent and Google Consent Mode for UK sites
Satisfy PECR and UK GDPR and keep Google's ad features, with a Consent Debt Score and the wiring that stops tags firing before consent.
Read the guide →UK GDPRUK GDPR when your development team works outside the UK
Separate processor terms, the international-transfer route and technical access controls with a practical exposure score.
Read the guide →ArchitectureWordPress to headless Next.js
When decoupling improves performance and resilience—and when the extra moving parts are not worth it.
Read the guide →HostingZero-downtime DigitalOcean App Platform deployments
Release sequencing, health checks, migrations and rollback for production web applications.
Read the guide →PerformanceNext.js App Router SSR and SEO
A practical rendering model for content that must load quickly and remain indexable.
Read the guide →These pages provide technical and operational guidance, not legal, tax, financial or compliance advice. Confirm regulated decisions with an appropriately qualified UK adviser.
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