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Zinn Digital®: how Neil Lock brought hosting and SEO together
Person on file Neil Lock, Co-founder and developer · United Kingdom
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How it started
At zinndigital.com, Neil Lock is building the platform of his company, Zinn Digital®. Neil was a child when he started on the family farm's computer systems, the Commodore 64 and the ZX Spectrum, and he was about twenty when technology became his profession. His more than 25 years of building software, search and hosting come together with his AI work in one product, Zinn Digital®.
The idea
Hosting and SEO, AI-first, in one place: that is what Zinn Digital® offers. Customers manage everything from one dashboard, in their own language and currency, and the platform is published in 58 languages.
What he is building
SEOs get Footprint-Free Hosting; Mainstream Hosting covers managed WordPress, WooCommerce, PHP, static and Node sites. The infrastructure under every site is built, tuned and owned by Zinn Digital® itself, end to end. Each site sits in its own kernel-level cage, watched by a proactive firewall and malware scanning. A LiteSpeed full-page cache, a per-site Redis object cache and the CDN edge are kept in step by smart auto-purge. Neil built the 24/7 AI support agent, and it has real functions. Developers get a spec-first API, generated SDKs, a CLI, a Terraform provider, signed webhooks and an MCP server. Reseller and agency hosting runs under the customer's own brand.
What's next
From the first line, the platform was designed to scale beyond a million sites.
