We build on industry-leading platforms to make your website fast, secure, and easy to grow. More importantly, we don’t believe in “technapping.” We use popular, open-standard tools so that if you ever outgrow us or just change your mind, you can take your assets and go. No lock-ins, no proprietary traps.
We host WordPress on high-performance VPS infrastructure from Digital Ocean, Vultr, and Hetzner, managed through GridPane. That means faster load times, isolated server resources, and far fewer headaches than cheap shared hosting.
Global performance starts with DNS. We rely on DNS Made Easy for authoritative DNS management, with Cloudflare and Lexsynergy in the mix where needed. For content delivery, we use Cloudflare’s global network and ShortPixel for intelligent image optimization.
Security isn’t optional, and it isn’t a plugin. We enforce least-privilege access, unique strong passwords, and MFA across all accounts. On every site we apply server-level hardening including forced HTTPS, secure PHP versions, disabled directory browsing, PHP execution blocked in uploads, SFTP/SSH only, Nginx rate limiting, and a disabled default WordPress login page.
We also protect sites actively with Patchstack and the 7G Firewall, and run weekly WordPress core, theme, and plugin updates with AI-assisted visual checks after every change.
Every site gets local and remote backups on a tiered schedule, with 14-day retention by default. Remote copies are stored securely in Wasabi, AWS S3, or Google Drive, so a bad update or hosting issue never becomes a disaster.
We use Fluent Forms for fast, reliable form handling. For feedback, approvals, and client collaboration, we use SureFeedBack so you can comment directly on designs and layouts — no more screenshot ping-pong.
FluentCRM keeps your customer relationships inside WordPress, replacing older tools with something that doesn’t create data silos or surprise invoices. For transactional email — password resets, order confirmations, alerts — we use Postmark and Emailit for consistent, inbox-ready delivery.
From day one we optimize for search. We use RankMath for on-page and technical SEO, plus Squirrly SEO to help guide content decisions based on real search data.
We manage everything from one place using MainWP — updates, security checks, backups, and uptime monitoring across client sites without jumping between dashboards.
We track site health with Better Uptime, server performance with NetData, and ongoing reliability with Hexometer and Hexowatch so issues are caught before your customers notice them.
Every build gets its own staging site at clientname.xponentdev.co.za. You can review, test, and approve changes privately before anything goes live.