In 2004 Neil Westlake (founder of GoCreations), successfully created an osCommerce store for his, then, employment. He then decided to continue developing his PHP skills and learning about mySQL.  As Neil became more and more passionate about osCommerce, he continued to learn and better his skills in PHP, mySQL and osCommerce plus spent many hours playing with HSBC's secure e-payments system. At first he really struggled to get it to work with osCommerce. After finally getting it working he met many contacts on the osCommerce forum that had also struggled with the HSBC system.  Neil helped many osCommerce users to install HSBC and found himself being asked to do other osCommerce work.  In July 2005 Neil then decided to start his own company offering osCommerce services more professionally.

In all the time Neil had been running an online business the one thing that still annoyed him the most was the hosting companies. Their complete lack of support and service. So that is when he decided that he was going  to also offer hosting with the best service possible but to do this he would need to be able to control as many of the parameters as he could. For this reason Neil purchased his own server and began learning Linux and everything to do with running a secure web server.

Neil's first server finally went live in August 2005 with 1 user, himself!. Shortly after that he got an enquiry from an osCommerce user about HSBC. Their hosting company wouldn't allow the HSBC system to run on their server so Neil gained his first hosting customer. Things slowly picked up and he gradully got more and more osCommerce work. In February 2006 (after working during the day at the DJ/Karaoke business and evenings on the hosting/oscommerce business) Neil decided to give up the day job and go it alone, full time.

During February 2006 Neil fitted out an office at home and on the 1st March 2006 he started working from home full time.

It wasn't until November 2006 that Neil had gained a good portfolio of customers who came back for more and more work. He had acquired many new customers that also needed hosting. Things started looking good so Neil started work on GoCreations. This was going to be a site where he could offer his products and services. In January 2007 GoCreations was launched.

Update: In April 2011 the GoCreation site was revamped to promote the ever increasing hosting business. GoCreations has come a long way in 5 years, starting out with a single server to now having over 30 servers GoCreations has become a very successful and profitable hosting and development company but still remain focused on offering their customers a 1st class service.