A website by tonight, for a few pounds a month

bolt How it works

You tell it about your business: what you do, who you do it for, how people reach you. It builds you a modern, fast website in seconds, and you can see the whole thing before you decide anything. If you like it, I register your domain and it goes live. If you don't, you've lost nothing.

There is no consultation to book and nothing to schedule. Most people are online the same day.

Already got a website? You can still have this, for a one-off £99 on top. Moving a live site means repointing your domain without knocking out your email, and that part I do by hand rather than leaving it to a script. After that it's the same £5/month as everyone else, and there's no cancellation fee because you've already covered the setup.

If your website is genuinely part of how you win work, spend the money on a redesign instead. I'd rather tell you that now than take £99 off you for the wrong thing.

inventory_2 What's included

• The website itself: built for you, working properly on phones. Yours to download and take elsewhere whenever you want.
• Your domain: registered for you in your name and included in the price, so there's nothing separate to buy, set up or renew. Bought a domain already but never built anything on it? Use that instead, for the same money, and it's one setting to change.
• Hosting: fast UK hosting with SSL and backups, included in the monthly price.
• Looking after it: security patches and updates happen without you thinking about it, so it doesn't quietly rot the way an unmaintained site does.
• Search basics: clean structure, sensible page titles and fast loading, so you can actually be found.

payments What it costs

£5/month, with everything in it: domain, hosting and maintenance. There's no setup fee and nothing separate to renew. The full pricing page has the detail, including the one condition below.

balance It's cheap because it's automatic, not because you get less

The reason this costs a few pounds a month instead of several hundred up front is simply that the build is automated. It isn't a stripped-down deal where I keep hold of your website.

The site is yours. You can download your website files at any time, and move to another host whenever you like. The domain is registered in your name, not mine, so it goes with you too. I'm not holding onto anyone's stuff, and there's no version of this where cancelling leaves you with nothing.

What the monthly price covers is the hosting it runs on and keeping it maintained: patches, updates and making sure it stays up. That's ongoing work, so it's an ongoing price.

One condition, stated plainly: if you cancel within the first 6 months there's a £50 cancellation fee. That's because the monthly price is spreading the cost of a build you'd otherwise pay for up front. After 6 months you can cancel any time with nothing to pay, and either way you keep the website.

Want it built around your business rather than assembled automatically? That's the redesign service: you pay once, from £499, with no monthly anything. Plenty of businesses start here and move up later, which is completely fine by me.

help Which one is right for you?

Instant is right if you're a sole trader or a small business that needs to be findable and contactable, you'd rather spend a few pounds a month than hundreds up front, and you want it done this week rather than next month. Whether you're starting from nothing or replacing something tired, it's the same website at the end.

A redesign is right if the site is part of how you win work: people research you before they buy, you're competing on looking credible, or you need a shop, bookings or anything with moving parts.

Not sure? The free 15-minute call covers both, and I'll tell you honestly which one I'd pick in your position, including when that's the cheaper option.