Since 1998
Cybersalt Consulting Ltd. is a Joomla-focused web development and hosting firm based on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. We help individuals, organizations, and businesses achieve their goals online through website design, development, migrations, hosting, security cleanup, and ongoing management.
Founder Tim Davis started Cybersalt in 1998, and we have been at it ever since.
Who we are
Tim Davis is the founder and owner of Cybersalt — see his author profile on cybersalt.com. He has been working with Joomla since the Mambo days, back when the project that became Joomla was still called Mambo, in the early 2000s. Tim's wife Susan Davis works alongside him on projects, especially website builds and redesigns. Tim and Susan are celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary this year and have three married children and six grandchildren.
Cybersalt is a family-run consultancy at its core. That shape has stayed the same on purpose. When you engage us, you get direct access to the person who is actually doing the work — no client-services layer, no ticket queue that hides you from the developer, no offshore hand-off after the sales call.
Our team
Alongside Tim and Susan, Cybersalt has a small team of experienced developers and technicians:
- Julie Steffers — based in South Africa
- Gurnoor Deol — based in Vancouver, Canada
- Shahbaz Latif — based in Bangkok, Thailand
Company registration and credentials
- Cybersalt Consulting Ltd. — British Columbia (Canada) corporation
- Business address: 3486 Metchosin Road, Victoria, BC, V9C 2B2, Canada
- Business licensed with the City of Colwood, one of the seaside municipalities that make up Greater Victoria's West Shore
- Member of the West Shore Chamber of Commerce since 2017 — see our public WSCC directory listing
- Phone: 250-858-8066 (Canada) | 1-888-858-8066 (US toll-free)
- Email:
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What we do
Website design, migrations, and rebuilds. We migrate Joomla sites from any version — as far back as Joomla 1.0 — up to the current release (Joomla 6). We also convert WordPress sites to Joomla. Every migration includes a new modern, responsive template designed with SEO, AI discoverability, accessibility, and mobile responsiveness in mind.
Custom Joomla module and extension development. For clients whose sites need behaviour that off-the-shelf extensions cannot cover, we build custom Joomla 5 / 6 modules and plugins to fit.
Website hosting. Fast Joomla hosting on our own infrastructure, with support for PHP 7.2 through PHP 8.5. Hosting is included in our monthly management plan (below).
Monthly Joomla Website Management — US$99/month all-in with hosting included. Uptime monitoring, weekly automated security audits, Joomla core and extension version monitoring, strategic updates (tested before deployment), off-server backups using Akeeba Backup Pro stored on Cybersalt cloud, and access to the pro versions of every Joomla extension we license — including JCE Pro, Akeeba Backup Pro, Admin Tools Pro, Regular Labs bundle, Joomlashack extensions, the JoomlaCK menu suite, and many others.
Website compromise cleanup. When a Joomla site is hacked, we perform a full account-level malware sweep, remove injected code, close the entry vector, harden the site, and bring it back online.
Email marketing, SEO, YouTube channel setup, and training. These are the surrounding needs that most website work touches. We can also record training sessions on screen so clients keep the video for future team members.
Products
cs-* Joomla extension family. Cybersalt develops and maintains a family of Joomla extensions under the cs- prefix — including cs-mcp-for-j (a Model Context Protocol server for Joomla), cs-userback-admin, cs-siteground-cache-for-joomla, cs-edge-cache-marker, cs-template-integrity, cs-customfields-anywhere, cs-stale-cache-buster, and others.
StageIt and MigrateMe 4. Tim leads the ongoing development and support of both StageIt and MigrateMe 4 on behalf of PHP Web Design — two of the most user-friendly Joomla migration and site-staging extensions in use across the Joomla community today.
VirtueMartTemplates.net and EnergizeThemes.com. In 2026, Cybersalt acquired these two long-standing Joomla template libraries and is currently modernizing their full catalogues for Joomla 5 and Joomla 6.
In the Joomla community
Basic Joomla Tutorials on YouTube — @Basicjoomla. Tim has been publishing free Joomla training on this channel since November 2013. The channel now hosts over 800 videos and has passed 700,000 lifetime views.
Watch Me Work livestreams and Maintenance Monday sessions. Tim runs regular livestream sessions where he works through real client tickets, migrations, and support scenarios on camera, visible to the Joomla community in real time. Every past session is archived and searchable on the Watch Me Work library and the Maintenance Monday library on cybersalt.com.
JoomlaDay USA speaker — 5 consecutive years (2022 to 2026):
| Year | Session |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Migrating from Joomla 3 to Joomla 4 |
| 2023 | SmarterThanTims |
| 2024 | Smarter than Tims |
| 2025 | Surviving Supporting Others |
| 2026 | My Zero Inbox Dream + The Future of Joomla panel with Sigrid Gramlinger and Joe Sonne |
Joomla World Conference 2026 speaker. Tim will be presenting at the international Joomla World Conference in Potsdam / Berlin, Germany, from 16 to 18 October 2026.
Forum for the Future — Joomla community forum in Spain, January 2020. Tim participated in this Joomla community gathering focused on the future direction of the Joomla project.
JoomCast podcast co-host. Tim co-hosted JoomCast with Chetan Madaan of JoomDev — an interview podcast featuring members of the Joomla community. The full episode archive is available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Featured in the Joomla Community Magazine. Tim's story from pastoring to Joomla community educator was profiled by Serge Billon in the November 2024 issue: "Tim Davis, from pastor in life to Joomla evangelist".
Sustained Joomla community involvement. Cybersalt supports client sites across Joomla 3, 4, 5, and 6 concurrently, which keeps us in daily contact with the full working landscape of the Joomla ecosystem — its extension developers, its release-team engineers, and its user community.
What working with us looks like
Direct access. Tim answers his own email and works on his own projects. When you email
Explain-first. We take time to explain what we found, what we recommend, and why — in plain language, without hiding behind jargon.
No-pressure recommendations. We recommend the Monthly Management plan when it is a good fit and stay quiet about it when it is not.
Fair, transparent pricing. Hourly rate is US$90/hour. Project quotes are always given before work starts. We take a 50% deposit to begin project work.
How to engage us
Start with our Support Request Form, or email Tim directly at
For website work, please have your site's admin login and webhosting login ready — we will need to look at both before quoting.
Has Cybersalt helped you? We would love a Google review.
Cybersalt Consulting Ltd. — 3486 Metchosin Road, Victoria, BC, V9C 2B2, Canada — 250-858-8066 / 1-888-858-8066 (US toll-free) — www.cybersalt.com
