WE ♥ WEBSITES
Based near Lymington and the New Forest, on the Hampshire coast, we are a Web Development
and Web Hosting Agency trading for over 22 years
WordPress Development & Hosting
Opencart Stores & E-commerce
Dedicated and Virtual Server Hosting
Responsive UI & UX Design
ABOUT US
Who we are, what we do and why we do it
Hello! We are Bluebit Web Design
A Web Development & Hosting Agency based close to Lymington and the New Forest
Bluebit has been established since December 2000 as a Web Design, Software Development and Web Hosting company. Our small but perfectly formed team have overlapping skill sets that enable us to provide a full stack solution (Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB & PHP), as well as HTML, CSS/LESS/SCSS & Javascript. We like to think outside of the box and aren’t tied to off-the-shelf products to find a solution for your requirements.
We regularly use a combination of tools and frameworks such as WordPress, Magento, Opencart and WooCommerce to name a few. Many of these solutions are Open Source allowing for easy modification and portability if needed.
Our servers are situated in UK based data centres with backup power and network capacity.
01.
Responsive Design
We check all our websites across a variety of different devices to ensure that they look great and also function as expected whether on a Windows PC, Apple Mac or Mobile device.
02.
Standards Based
We use HTML5, CSS and Javascript for much of the front end development and when it comes to backend stuff, Linux, Apache, PHP and MySQL are where we’re at.
03.
Support & Maintenance
We support all websites that we build, for up to 3 months from launch for free. We also offer maintenance agreements and retainers for customers who need additional support regarding updates and ongoing work.
04.
Backups and peace of mind
All the shared hosting websites that we host are backed up nightly so that in the unlikely event of a critical failure, we can recover quickly and easily, with minimal downtime.
We also offer backup solutions for dedicated and Virtual Servers too.
PORTFOLIO
A showcase of some of our work
Have you seen anything you like? We can offer bespoke design services or if budgets are a little tighter, pre-created website templates which can be tailored with the minimum of work to suit your project.
WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS SAY
EXPERTISE
How we can help you and your company
Website Design & Development
Custom Plugin Development
Digital Marketing & SEO
e-Commerce
Maintenance & Retainer Packages
Web Hosting & Servers
HOSTING PLANS
What you get with our shared hosting plans as standard
Bronze
Perfect hosting plan for a static startup site or simple email services.- FREE SSL certificate
- 5GB Space
- 10GB Bandwidth
- 5 x Standard POP mailboxes
- Nightly Backups
- PHP, CGI, PERL, PYTHON
- Plesk Control panel
- Regular Virus & Malware scanning
- 24/7 Support
Silver
Ideal hosting plan for a small blog/shopping cart based website.- FREE SSL certificate
- WordPress Pre-installed for FREE
- Divi Website builder
- 10GB Space
- 20GB Bandwidth
- 10 x Standard POP mailboxes
- Nightly Backups
- PHP, CGI, PERL, PYTHON
- 1 x MySQL Database
- Plesk Control panel
- Regular Virus & Malware scanning
- 24/7 Support
Gold
Great hosting plan for a growing blog/shopping cart based website.- FREE SSL certificate
- WordPress & WooCommerce Pre-Installed for FREE
- Divi Website builder
- 25GB Space
- 35GB Bandwidth
- 2 x Pro IMAP mailboxes
- Nightly Backups
- PHP, CGI, PERL, PYTHON
- 2 x MySQL Databases
- Plesk Control panel
- Regular Virus & Malware scanning
- 24/7 Support
Platinum
Fantastic hosting plan for larger sites generating more traffic.- FREE SSL certificate
- WordPress, Joomla, WooCommerce, Opencart Pre-Installed for FREE *
- Divi Website builder
- 50GB Space
- Unlimited Bandwidth **
- 5 x Pro IMAP mailboxes
- Nightly Backups
- PHP, CGI, PERL, PYTHON
- 5 x MySQL Databases
- Plesk Control panel
- Regular Virus & Malware scanning
- 24/7 Support
Simple 1-click installs
24/7 support
Plesk control panel
Nightly backups
Each web hosting plan is automatically backed up nightly to our separate storage facility, providing disaster recovery and peace of mind.
Free SSL
Regular virus and malware scans
We want to protect our customers websites, so we run regular virus and malware scans across all hosting plans and let you know if we find anything suspect.
Statistics & log files
Our web hosting plans come with Webalizer and AWStats packages to choose fromWe also provide access to real log files via FTP or control panel.
Password protected directories
Add an additional layer of protection to specific folders within your web site and manage user access from the Plesk control panel.
Webmail access
We use Roundcube and Horde for access to your email through your browser. It has an application-like interface and provides full functionality you expect from an email client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation, message searching and spell checking.
bluebit.co.uk subdomain
We offer a free bluebit.co.uk subdomain for all our websites so that you can get started right away.
PHP 8 support
We offer the most up-to-date PHP 8 version as standard on all our shared hosting plans, but you can also choose an older version too. Ask us for more info.
MySQL / MariaDB
We run the most up-to-date version of MariaDB which is fully compatible with MySQL databases as used by WordPress, Joomla, Typo3 and Opencart. †
Prices shown above exclude VAT @ 20%.
* We can install the vanilla version of one of the following; WordPress, Joomla, WooCommerce or Opencart. If you have any other open source software you would like us to install, please drop us a line.
** Bandwidth Fair use policy applies.
† Only Available on Silver, Gold and Platinum plans.
VIRTUAL PRIVATE SERVERS
We’ve listed our most popular range of unmanaged Virtual Servers listed below and can provide custom server builds on request.
VPS-S
- 20GB Disk Space *
- 2GB Memory
- 2 x 2.5Ghz vCPU Cores
- 100Mbit connection
- Plesk Web Admin Edition
- 1 x IP address
- Server Management Control Panel **
- ROOT access on request
- Optional snapshot backups ***
- 24/7 Support
VPS-M
- 50GB Disk Space *
- 4GB Memory
- 4 x 2.5Ghz vCPU Cores
- 300Mbit connection
- Plesk Web Admin Edition
- 1 x IP address
- Server Management Control Panel **
- ROOT access on request
- Optional snapshot backups ***
- 24/7 Support
VPS-L
- 100GB Disk Space *
- 8GB Memory
- 6 x 2.5Ghz vCPU Cores
- 1000Mbit connection
- Plesk Web Admin Edition
- 1 x IP address
- Server Management Control Panel **
- ROOT access on request
- Optional snapshot backups ***
- 24/7 Support
Prices shown above exclude VAT @ 20%.
* Add more storage space when needed at £1 per 10GB.
** You can request server shutdown and reboots and monitor server load and other statistics from this panel.
*** Snapshot backups are a great way to backup your Virtual Server. Let us know if snapshot backups are required and we can provide a separate quote for you.
CONTACT US
Start a project with us.
We would love to work with you on your new project, no matter what size, big or small. Why not give us a ring and have a chat, or if you prefer, fill in the form below, and we will contact you as soon as possible.