A free, practical look at your website, payments or business systems.
dotbm is a BEDC Trusted Service Provider. If your business is a BEDC member, we will look at one part of your setup, talk it through with you for up to 30 minutes, and send you a short written report of what we found and what to fix first.
It costs nothing and commits you to nothing. The report is yours to act on yourselves, or to hand to whoever already looks after your technology.
On 21 October 2026, PHP released an update that repairs two serious security problems. PHP is the software most business websites run on. A website without the update can be taken over.
Enter your website address below. dotbm checks it for free and tells you if it needs the update. If it does, the repair is a fixed price, $149 for most websites, agreed before any work starts. We check a website only when its owner asks. How the check works.
Check your email
We sent a link to . Opening it shows that the request came
from someone at your domain, and runs the check. The link works for 24 hours.
Nothing there after a few minutes? Check your junk folder, or
.
Show us the website is yours
Your email address is not at , so we need another
way to know the site is yours before we show anything. Pick whichever is easier.
Add a DNS record
In the place you manage your domain (often where you bought it), add a TXT record to
with this value:
The name or host is usually written @. Changes can take from a few minutes to
a few hours. You can delete the record once the check has run.
Have us confirm it with you
Not sure where your domain is managed? We will get in touch, confirm the site is yours, and send you the
result ourselves, usually the same working day.
Three checks
Pick the one closest to what is bothering you.
Website
Is the site working for the business, and do you control it?
What we look at
Who controls the domain and hosting
HTTPS, DNS and email-domain security
Mobile use, speed and broken links
Forms, contact details and business information
Accessibility and privacy basics
How the business shows up on Google
A short report of what we found, marked good, needs attention or missing, with what to fix first.
Pick a check and answer a few questions. About five minutes.
02
We look first
We go through what you sent and what is publicly visible before we talk, so the call is not spent on basics.
03
A short conversation
Up to 30 minutes by phone or video. Some website checks do not need one.
04
Your report
One to three pages, usually within ten working days of the call, written so you can hand it to whoever does the work.
What it covers
Useful, and deliberately small.
The check tells you where you stand and what to do next. It does not do the work, and it does not go anywhere that needs a password. Anything bigger can be scoped separately, by us or by anyone else.
Included
A conversation of up to 30 minutes, by phone or video
A review of what you send us
A look at what anyone can see from outside: your website, domain and email settings
A written report, usually one to three pages
Recommendations in priority order, with who can do each one
Not included
Logging in to your systems, or asking for passwords
Security testing, penetration tests or vulnerability scans
Audits of Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, firewalls, servers or code
Fixing, building, migrating or configuring anything
Ongoing troubleshooting or support
Payment compliance sign-off, legal or accounting advice
The report is yours
You do not need to hire us to use it.
Fix it yourselves
Plenty of findings are a setting, a renewal or a page to update. The report says which.
Hand it to your IT provider
It is written so your web developer, IT person or accountant can act on it without us.
Use another provider
If you want a quote from someone else, the report is the brief.
Ask us
If you would like dotbm to do the work, we quote it separately, and BEDC members get 15% off eligible work.
Request a check
Request Your Free Technology Readiness Check
The questions change with the check you pick, and none of them need a password or an account number.
Request received.
Chris or Lisa will reply within two working days. A copy of what happens next is on its way to your inbox.
If you choose us for the work
If you choose dotbm to do the recommended work, BEDC members receive 15% off eligible dotbm professional services. You get a written quote first, with the discount shown on it.
Eligible means dotbm’s own one-off professional fees for design, build, setup and configuration work. It does not apply to monthly hosting and support plans, hardware, software licences or subscriptions, domain registrations, bank, gateway or transaction fees, or work already discounted. You pay providers directly wherever practical; anything dotbm buys for you is approved by you first and passed through at cost, with no markup, and is not discounted. The discount is capped at $2,000 per project, cannot be combined with other offers, and applies to work quoted within 12 months of your readiness check while you are a BEDC member. A Workflow Review fee credit is not an offer, so it still applies, after the discount.