Saturday 21st of December 2024

Video Introduction

Starbird Digital web services write the computer code that powers modern, advanced websites. We are computer programmers that use a range of new web technologies to get web pages to do clever things. Cleverer and better than most of the others.

The Easy SDCMS

Effortlessly^* create your own website!

The Easy SDCMS is the new Starbird Digital Content Management System. You can easily create your own website in minutes, starting from a template. These website are really (really) good value for money! They start at £7.50/ $10 pcm with no other fees, or £99/$131 plus 99p/$1.31 week hosting. See our prices page for more details.

^*Some effort required

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Robin Broad B.Sc., M.Sc. - Technical and Creative Director

Starbird Digital web services was set up by Robin Broad, Technical and Creative Director, in 2013 to help you to get your own web pages online.

A first class computer scientist, he knows how to make things work and solve problems. Robin achieved a distinction in his Masters degree in Computing Science (MSc), which he studied at Newcastle University, in England from 2007 to 2008.

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Data Center Tour - Softlayer Dallas DAL05 facility

Our data center keeps your website available every day, 24/7. Your hosting fee pays for equipment, power, cooling, maintenance and security. This video illustrates the sort of equipment that we use to keep your website online.

We use world class data centers in Dallas-Texas, Houston-Texas and Provo-Utah. These data centers contain racks of computers, in air conditioned rooms, that serve out web pages to users across the world, on demand, 24/7. They cost money to build, use energy, have operations staff, emergency power back-ups, fire security and they are guarded. Your monthly hosting fee contributes to these costs.

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(video credit: Kevin Hazard, Softlayer Dallas DAL05 facility)

A Million Web Pages for Peace

On 7th November 2018 we achieved our goal of producing our millionth web page. This was achieved using a computer program to dynamically generate unique web pages sequentially. Initially, we ran experiments to generate fifty pages at high speed. After the success of these initial experiments, we ran an experiment to generate a million web pages, starting with page one at 10:38:07pm on 2018/11/06.

Finally, 24 hours, 38 minutes and 32 seconds later we generated our millionth web page at 11:16:39pm on 2018/11/07!

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Getting Started

The first thing to do is to start writing down what you want to say on each of your web pages. Often, people say that they would like their own website but then can't think of anything to say! If you have a message that is going to be of interest to other people, then you need to think about what that message is, and start writing it down in a structured way.

Find out more about how you can get started by clicking here.

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