When Prater Raines took on its first batch of customers, the only smartphone was a BlackBerry, less than 200,000 UK homes had a broadband Internet connection and Pop Idol’s Gareth Gates and Will Young were dominating the charts.
We’re proud and excited to be celebrating 21 years in business this year and looking forward to many more to come.
Our first product was an affordable website platform to help Liberal Democrat council groups and politicians get online and 21 years later we’re still providing web services to 300 party organisations, including the main federal Lib Dem website.
In the intervening years we’ve built our own offices in sunny Sandgate, hired several awesome people, assembled a redundant, resilient, high performance hosting setup and accompanied Joanna Lumley to the House of Lords.