10 Questions to Ask Your Web Developer

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1. What experience do you have, can you provide case studies? 2. What applications do you normally work with? 3. Why do we need dedicated cloud server hosting? 4. Why do we need a CDN? 5. Can you provide load and security testing? 6. How can you improve the performance of our website? 7. What security measures do you have? 8. Are you GDPR compliant? 9. Are you cyber security essentials compliant? 10. How much do you charge?

1. What experience do you have, can you provide case studies?

Bison Grid has been building, managing and hosting high value websites and web apps since 2003.

Currently and in the past, we have worked with well-known organisations such as Destination Skin, Clarke Willmott, Boss Collectors and Yeo Valley Venues to name a few.

Our solutions are tailored to meet each client’s specific needs and our previous work along with our case studies can be viewed on our website here: https://www.bisongrid.uk/our-work/

2. What applications do you normally work with?

Most of our web projects use WordPress. Our clients often request for us to work in WordPress, this is because WordPress is the most popular CMS (Content Management System) with over 60.1% of sites who are currently using a CMS, using WordPress.

With regards to Ecommerce solutions using WordPress, we often use the WooCommerce plugin. We also work with Magento 2 as an Ecommerce solution.

If you wish to see how many sites use which CMS, you can view these statistics here: https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/all

3. Why do we need dedicated cloud server hosting?

Having your own dedicated cloud server has numerous advantages with regards to both security and performance.

The main advantage of dedicated cloud server hosting is the fact that you do not need to share a server with other sites that you do not own. This means that your site does not have to compete for computational resources, such as RAM and CPU usage, with the other sites on your server, increasing the performance of your site.

In addition, with a shared server, if any one of the sites on that server becomes compromised through hacking or a virus of some kind, then potentially, every site on that server is at risk of being compromised. However, with dedicated cloud servers, you do not have to share with other sites so this is not an issue and you don’t have to worry about sites that you do not fully trust, compromising the security of your site through no fault of your own.

4. Why do we need a CDN?

CDN’s (Content Delivery Networks) involve management of the inter connectivity of cached (stored) web-based data via a number of servers in strategically considered locations like the UK and overseas. CDN enables the management and redirection of content and traffic via various platforms, such as Cloud technology and mobile devices, to improve response times for information retrieval, ultimately improving customer experience and overall search rankings.

5. Can you provide load and security testing?

Yes.

We can provide load testing to anticipate slow response times and crashes, detect performance issues early and provide an accurate picture of your slowest user’s experience.

We can also provide security testing to scan your entire site for vulnerabilities such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS).

6. How can you improve the performance of our website?

Our dedicated cloud servers along with our high performance CDN (Content Delivery Network) will drastically the TTFB (Time to First Byte) on your site.

In addition to this, we work with Google PageSpeed Insights to find optimisation issues and target this issues with our tools such as JavaScript, CSS and image optimisation on your site to further improve page load speeds.

7. What security measures do you have?

Security is one of our top priorities. Each one of our dedicated cloud servers comes with an SSL security certificate.

We also use Web Application Firewalls, DDoS Mitigation, Network Scanning and Malware Defence to make sure your site is safe and secure.

8. Are you GDPR compliant?

Yes, we are GDPR compliant.

We will respect your personal information and undertake to comply with all applicable UK data protection legislation currently in force.

You can view our privacy policy here: https://www.bisongrid.uk/privacy-policy/

9. Are you Cyber Security Essentials compliant?

Yes, we are Cyber Security Essentials compliant.

We are also Cyber Security Essentials PLUS certified since 04/10/2017.

10. How much do you charge?

We offer different web packages to suit the differences in our customer’s needs. You can view our prices for our different web packages on our website here: https://www.bisongrid.uk/web-management-package-pricing/

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