Web services, hardened
Websites built like infrastructure. Shipped like software.
Ironside designs, builds and hosts fast, secure websites and SQL databases for businesses across St. Catharines and the Niagara region — engineered to stay online.
~ ironside / deploy.sh
$ iron ship –site acme.ca
✓ build passed · 6.2s
✓ sql migrated · 14 tables
✓ edge cache primed · 8/8 POPs
✓ deployment live · acme.ca
→ first byte 84ms · 100/100 perf
Trusted to stay online by teams across Niagara
Lakeshore Co
Port Dalhousie
Merritt Labs
Garden City
Vineland Group
What we do
Everything your site needs to survive.
One team for the design, the build, the database and the hosting — wired together so nothing falls through the cracks between vendors.
Websites, shipped fast
Hand-built, accessible sites that load in under a second. No page-builder bloat, no templates you've seen a thousand times.
Managed hosting
We host what we build on hardened infrastructure with daily backups, TLS, and monitoring that pages us — not you — at 3am.
SQL & databases
Schemas designed to last, queries tuned to scale, and migrations that run clean. Postgres, MySQL and SQL Server.
Always-on monitoring
Uptime checks, error tracking and a status page on every project. If something breaks, we already know.
99.99%
Uptime we hold our hosted sites to, monitored every 30 seconds.
<1s
Median page load across every site we’ve shipped this year.
100%
Projects delivered on the date we committed to. No exceptions.
12 yr
Building for the web from St. Catharines, Ontario.
How we work
A process you can actually follow.
No black boxes, no surprise invoices. Every engagement runs through the same four checkpoints, and you see working software at each one.
01
Scope
A free call to map what you need, who it serves, and what success looks like. You leave with a fixed quote and timeline.
~ 1 call · no cost
02
Design & data model
We design the pages and the SQL schema together, so the interface and the database agree from day one.
~ 1–2 weeks
03
Build & review
Hand-coded, reviewed in a live staging link you can click through any time. Feedback goes straight into the next build.
~ 2–4 weeks
04
Ship & hold the line
We deploy, point your domain, and keep it monitored. Hosting, backups and updates handled for as long as you stay.
live · ongoing
In their words
Quiet infrastructure, loud results.
“Our old site went down every long weekend. Ironside rebuilt it and it simply hasn’t gone down since. That’s the whole review.”
DK
Dana Kowalski
Owner, Lakeshore Co
“They untangled fifteen years of spreadsheet chaos into one clean SQL database. Reports that took a day now take a click.”
RM
Raj Mehta
Ops Lead, Merritt Labs
“Fixed quote, hit the date, and the site scores 100 on performance. I keep waiting for the catch. There isn’t one.”
SL
Steph Laurent
Director, Garden City
From the field
Engineering, written down.
Guide
Why your website is slow (and the five fixes that matter)
The performance budget we hold every Ironside build to, and how to claw back seconds on a site you already own.
SQL
Spreadsheets to SQL: when it's time to graduate
The signals that your business has outgrown its spreadsheet, and what a clean relational schema buys you.
Hosting
What “managed hosting” should actually include
Backups, TLS, monitoring, patching — the unglamorous checklist that keeps a small business online.
Ready to put your website behind armor?
Book a free 20-minute call. We’ll look at what you have, tell you straight what we’d do, and send a fixed quote.