Meppen is the district town of the Emsland. Administration, public authorities and educational institutions are based here, together with mid-sized companies closely tied to the rural surroundings: agricultural machinery and engineering, food production, construction and trades, logistics where the Ems and Hase rivers meet and along the Dortmund-Ems Canal. For most firms here a website is no prestige project. It has to work — bring in enquiries, sell spare parts, convince applicants, provide forms and information. That suits the way we work: we are not an advertising agency but a team of PHP developers who build systems and run them for years.
Over the past decades the Emsland has grown from a farming area into an industrial and commercial region without leaving agriculture behind. For many firms around Meppen this means customers are farmers, agricultural contractors and dealers, suppliers are spread across Europe, and the Dutch border is not far away. Seasonal peaks are part of the business. When the harvest is on, a spare part has to be orderable straight away, not after a call-back the next day. Anyone selling online here therefore needs two things above all: a system that stays stable under load, and someone who keeps it up to date over the long term.
With Shopware 6 we build spare-parts and accessories shops, B2B portals for dealer networks and classic B2C shops for firms in Meppen. Typical requirements are parts lists with compatibility data, customer-specific prices for contractors and dealers, and an ERP link that keeps availability current. Once the shop is live we take over its care: patch and security updates after testing on a staging copy, plugin upkeep, checks on imports, search index and backups. You choose the response time for incidents in the SLA according to what an outage costs you in season — 24, 8, 4 or 2 hours. We quote the monthly fee after the initial review.
For institutions, associations and companies with a lot of information to publish, TYPO3 is the right system: many pages, tiered editorial permissions, forms, several sites in one installation. Public bodies in the district town also need accessibility to WCAG 2.2 AA, which we build into the templates rather than laying it over them afterwards. We move older TYPO3 installations to v14 LTS in planned steps, including a review of every extension and a test environment alongside the live site. Then we take care of everyday operation: security patches after every security bulletin, updates on staging first, backups with restore tests — and help when your editors get stuck.
Meppen is about 1 hour 15 minutes from our office in Oldenburg — close enough to come in person for the kick-off, workshops with your editors or your sales team, and the sign-off. We agree those dates with you. Coding, testing and maintenance happen in Oldenburg: interim builds are available on a staging environment, tasks go through a ticket system, questions by phone or video. Hosting runs on our own Proxmox servers in the Hetzner data centre in Falkenstein, Germany. You can reach us Monday to Thursday, 9:00 to 16:00, and Friday, 9:00 to 13:00 CET, on +49 441 21 21 63 0.