For Australian businesses on WordPress
Stop worrying about your website.
Move your site off WordPress, keep it looking the same, and have it looked after for you. Hosting, updates, security and content changes are all included.
Free, no obligation, and you keep the findings either way. See the offer
- $100/month ex GST, hosting included
- Free rebuild, limited offer
- 100% Australian, nothing outsourced
The website that keeps costing you
It got hacked
Spam links, a redirect to somewhere dodgy, or a warning from Google. Then a bill to clean it up.
It’s slow
Pages take seconds to appear on a phone. Customers leave before they see what you do.
Updates break it
A plugin updates and the contact form stops working. Nobody notices until the enquiries dry up.
Every change is an invoice
Swapping a photo or fixing a price means a quote, a wait, and a bill. So the site goes stale.
None of that is bad luck. It’s WordPress.
A WordPress site is dozens of plugins from different authors bolted together. Each one is a door someone can break in through and a part that has to be updated forever. A small business site doesn’t need any of that, and without it most of these problems simply stop.
What actually changes
Move off WordPress and each of those problems has an answer.
The same site, the same customer
Both run in real time. Watch how far each customer gets.
On WordPress
4.8s per page
Illustrative timings for a typical plugin-heavy small business site, before and after the move.
Fast, everywhere
Pages are built ahead of time and served from Sydney, so they appear almost the moment someone taps, even on a phone with patchy signal.
On WordPress: Every visit rebuilds the page through layers of plugins.
Secure, and watched
No plugins and no public login to attack, so there is far less to break into. The site is monitored around the clock, so I usually know about a problem before you do.
On WordPress: The most attacked software on the internet, with a login page anyone can find.
Built to score with Google
Google grades every site on performance, accessibility, best practices and SEO. Your rebuilt site is built to score in the green on all four, and it keeps the same page addresses to protect your rankings and give them room to climb.
On WordPress: Slow pages and the odd hack warning drag rankings down.
Updates handled
Security and platform updates are applied for you and checked before they go live.
On WordPress: Constant plugin updates, any of which can break the site.
Changes included
Email the change through and it gets done, as part of the plan.
On WordPress: Log in and fight the editor, or pay per change.
A real person
An Australian developer who built your site and answers you directly.
On WordPress: A ticket queue, an overseas call centre, or nobody.
Same site. New engine. New hosting. Someone looking after it.
Your design, your words and your page addresses carry over. The only thing your customers will notice is that it’s fast, stable and secure.
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Free site check
Send me your address. I’ll tell you what’s wrong with the site today, and confirm everything it does can come across. No cost, no obligation.
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I rebuild it off WordPress
Your look, your content and your page addresses carry over, which protects your Google rankings. You review it on a private preview before anything changes. The rebuild is free while this offer runs.
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You stop thinking about it
Your $100 a month covers the hosting itself and everything that goes with it: security, backups, updates and monitoring. There’s no separate hosting bill. When you need something changed, you send it through and it gets done, so you can focus on your business and your customers.
Includes your hosting and hosting management.
12-month agreement, billed upfront as $1,200 ex GST. No setup fee.
- Hosting included, on servers in Sydney
- Hosting management: updates, security, backups
- Free rebuild off WordPress (limited offer)
- Content changes included*
- Monitored around the clock
- All work done in Australia, by me
Why 12 months? A rebuild takes real time and cost. The 12-month commitment is what justifies doing that work up front at no charge.
Why is the free rebuild limited? Each one is done by hand, so there are only so many I can take on. After that, the $100 a month stays the same and the rebuild is a quoted project.
*Within reason. Content updates across your site are included. New functionality and a constant stream of small tweaks are not. See what’s covered.
Send it through. It gets done.
Keeping your site current is part of the plan, not an extra. Email it or send it through your client portal, and I aim to have it done within two business days.
Included in your $100
Anything that updates what’s already there, within reason.
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Wording and text
Rewrite a paragraph, fix a typo, update a service.
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Photos and images
New team photo, fresh gallery, updated logo.
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Prices, hours and staff
The details that change through the year.
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New pages in your existing style
A new service or location using a layout you already have.
“Within reason” means keeping your site current. It doesn’t stretch to a constant stream of small tweaks every week.
Quoted separately
Anything that makes the site something new.
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A new design
The move keeps your current look. A redesign is its own project, before or after.
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New page layouts
A kind of page the site doesn’t have yet.
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New features
Bookings, calculators, member areas, anything the site doesn’t do today.
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Connecting other systems
Linking the site to your CRM, accounting or stock software.
You always get a price before any quoted work starts.
Your day-to-day content is yours to run
News, blog posts and the records your business runs on are yours to add and update whenever you like. The editor is built around your business, not around building web pages, so you fill in a simple form and the site takes care of how it looks.
Nothing outsourced. Nothing offshore.
Slydev is an Australian business looking after Australian businesses. Every piece of work on your site is done here, by me. It is never handed to a contractor or sent overseas, so when you get in touch you reach the person who built your site and knows how it works.
Under the bonnet
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Kept in Sydney
Your site and its data stay in Australia.
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Cloudflare
Blocks attacks before they reach you.
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Postmark
Built so enquiry emails reach your inbox.
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Offsite backups
A copy kept somewhere else, always.
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Live monitoring
I usually know before you do.
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Kept up to date
Security updates applied for you.
The obvious questions
What people ask before they move.
Yes. It covers the hosting and the management of it: updates, security, backups and monitoring, plus your content changes. Once you’ve moved, you can cancel whatever you pay your current host.
Only the 12-month agreement, which is paid upfront. That commitment is what makes the free rebuild possible. There is no setup fee and no separate hosting bill.
It will look as close to your current site as possible. Where a small change makes the site faster or helps it score better with Google, I’ll make it, so you may notice minor differences. A completely new look is a separate project, quoted on its own.
Every page keeps the address it has now, and anything that has to move gets a permanent redirect. That is how rankings are protected through a move, and faster pages usually help them.
Yes. You get your own login and an editor built around your business. Adding a news post or updating one of your records is a matter of filling in a simple form, with no page-building. Changes to the site itself, you send to me.
Usually, yes. Shops have more moving parts, such as shipping rules and payment setups, so I confirm exactly what comes across in your free site check.
Most things are covered. Anything out of the ordinary shows up in the site check, and you’ll know before you commit whether it’s included or what it would cost.
It carries on month to month at the same price, and you can leave whenever you like.
Your domain stays in your name and under your control. Business email is separate from the website and keeps working as it does now.
Send me your address. I’ll tell you what’s wrong with it.
A free check of your current site: speed, security and anything Google won’t like. You keep the findings either way.
The free rebuild is a limited offer.