All about aTech Media
aTech Media is a small but perfectly formed internet software development company, specialising in Ruby including frameworks including Ruby on Rails. We develop fast, reliable and secure applications for both technical and civilian audiences. Our clients range from software developers and internet service providers to schools and churches.
Our office
We love our newly renovated office - if you're in the area, feel free to pop by and say hi!
Our ethos
Anything is possible - we strongly believe that we can solve the problems facing internet users all over the world by developing easy to use software which does exactly what it says on the tin. Wherever possible we keep our products as simple and streamlined which in turn leads to a faster user experience and a streamlined and efficient codebase. We are constantly working on improving and adding features to all our active projects.
- Founded in 2004.
- Employs 7 Staff.
- Runs 14 Apps.
- Powered by 40 Servers.
- Has 36,000+ users.
- Serving 50+ countries.
Our History
This timeline shows the key events in the aTech Media history going right the way back to it's birth through to the current day.
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2004
June 2004
aTech Media was founded by Adam Cooke while still at school, aged 17.
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2005
July 2005
aTech Media was incorporated as a limited company, registration #5523199.
December 2005
Adam Higgs came on-board to help with website development.
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2006
The early years of aTech (from 2005 until 2008) were predominantly spent working on designing developing websites for a number of schools, local design agencies and various technical companies.
As well as websites, we also developed a CRM application called desklamp. We also developed a management system for schools called SMI, which is still in use today.
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2008
February 2008
We began development of a virtual server management platform, known as Radar.
April 2008
we started Codebase
We started the development on the first version of Codebase.
September 2008
Charlie Smurthwaite joined the team, later to become Technical Director.
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2009
June 2009
Jack Regnart joined the team to work on some exciting new client projects.
September 2009
we launched Point
We needed a reliable DNS hosting provider and couldn't find one. So we built Point.
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2010
January 2010
Our VPS platform software was acquired and continues to grow under another brand to this day.
June 2010
we launched Deliver
We needed a reliable way to send & receive e-mail in our apps. So we built Deliver.
September 2010
we launched Deploy
Customers wanted to deploy from Codebase to their servers. So we built Deploy.
October 2010
Dan Wentworth joined the team as our Head of Hosted Applications.
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2011
April 2011
We designed & built our new fast & redundant hosting infrastructure to host all our applications.
June 2011
We launched our new single sign on system allowing our users to login to any of our apps using a single set of credentials.
July 2011
We migrated all customers onto a complete re-write of Codebase with many more features and significant speed & stability improvements.
September 2011
say hello to Dial 9
We launched our voice over IP company, Dial 9, specialising in solutions for small businesses.
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2012
February 2012
we launched Sirportly
We needed a customer support platform for all our apps. So we built Sirportly.
March 2012
Dan Quinney joined the team as a developer working on Sirportly.
May 2012
Jack Hayter joined the team as our Technical Community Manager.
July 2012
We launched our partner programme allowing customers to earn commission from referring users to our services.
August 2012
We launched Noti
Noti allows you to receive desktop notifications from web apps. It's awesome.
October 2012
The aTech Media team came 8th in the 2012 Rails Rumble by developing Dasher in a weekend.
October 2012
We refurbished and moved into our new permanent office for the next few years, in Poole, Dorset.
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2013
There's still plenty more to come