IT services · Cloud hosting

Hosting sized for your business, not for a sales target.

Websites, line-of-business applications, file services, and backups — specified, migrated, and kept running. Advisory if you have a team, fully managed if you don’t.

Business-to-business only. Sole traders and small firms are exactly who this is for.

The problem this solves

Most small businesses end up hosting by accident. A website goes on whatever the web designer used, the accounts package ends up on a server in a cupboard, files live in whichever cloud drive someone signed up for, and the backup is a job nobody has checked since it was configured. It works right up until it doesn’t — and then the person who set it up has moved on.

We take that estate, work out what it actually costs and what it actually risks, and give you something deliberate instead: sized correctly, documented, backed up, and either handed back to your team or run by us.

Advisory engagement

  • Inventory of what you’re running and what you’re paying for it
  • Right-sizing analysis — usually finds overspend
  • Costed migration plan with a recommended target platform
  • Written runbook your own team can execute
  • Available for questions through your rollout

Managed engagement

  • We perform the migration and own the platform afterwards
  • Patching and updates on an agreed schedule
  • Backups taken, monitored, and restore-tested
  • Uptime and certificate monitoring with alerting
  • Monthly retainer, named contact, defined escalation
Scope

What we host and manage

Business websites

WordPress and static sites on infrastructure that’s patched, backed up, and behind a CDN — with TLS certificates that renew themselves and a staging environment for changes.

Line-of-business applications

The database-backed application your business runs on, moved off the machine under someone’s desk and onto something with a backup and a restore procedure.

Email and collaboration

Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace configured properly — SPF, DKIM, and DMARC set so your mail arrives, MFA enforced, and offboarding that actually removes access.

File services and sync

Shared storage with permissions that match your org chart, versioning for when someone overwrites the master, and a retention policy you chose deliberately.

Backup and recovery

Offsite, encrypted, and — the part everyone skips — periodically restore-tested. A backup nobody has restored from is a hypothesis, not a backup.

Domains and DNS

Registration, DNS, and certificate lifecycle in one place, with records documented so nobody is guessing what an entry does five years from now.

Approach

How we pick a platform

We don’t resell hosting or take vendor commission, so the recommendation is genuinely the one we think fits.

  • Sized to the actual load. Most small-business workloads are far smaller than the tier they’ve been sold. We measure before specifying.
  • Boring beats clever. A well-configured, well-understood platform outperforms an elegant one nobody can maintain after we leave.
  • Exit built in. Every recommendation includes how you’d leave it. Anything that can’t be exited without a rebuild gets flagged before you commit.
  • Costs forecastable. We’d rather quote a predictable monthly figure than a usage-based bill that surprises you in a busy quarter.
  • Documented as we go. You get the architecture diagram, the runbook, and the credentials. They’re yours, held in your accounts.
Migration

Moving without the downtime story

  1. Discovery

    What’s running, where, on whose account, costing what, and who depends on it. This step alone frequently uncovers services nobody remembered paying for.

  2. Target design and quote

    A written target architecture with costs, a migration sequence, and a rollback position for each step. You approve it before anything moves.

  3. Build and parallel run

    The new environment is built and populated while the old one keeps serving. You get to test against real data before committing.

  4. Cutover

    Scheduled at a time that suits your business, with DNS TTLs lowered in advance and the old environment kept warm until we’re all confident.

  5. Decommission and document

    Old services shut down and stopped being billed, final documentation handed over, and either a handover to your team or the start of a managed retainer.

Questions

Common questions

Do you resell hosting, or do we buy it directly?

Wherever practical, infrastructure is bought in your name, on your account, with your payment method. You own the relationship and the data, and you’re never locked into us to keep the lights on. We bill for our work, not for a markup on someone else’s compute.

We’re already on a cloud platform. Is that wasted?

Usually not. Most engagements we do are tidying and right-sizing an existing estate rather than moving it somewhere new. If what you have is fundamentally sound, we’ll say so and the work becomes configuration and documentation rather than a migration.

What happens if we want to stop using you?

You keep everything. Infrastructure is in your accounts, documentation is written to be handed over, and credentials are yours throughout. We’ll do a structured handover to whoever takes over. A managed service you can’t leave isn’t a service, it’s a hostage situation.

Can you work alongside our existing IT provider?

Yes, and it’s common — particularly on advisory work where an independent second opinion is the point. Tell us the boundary you want and we’ll respect it.

How is this priced?

Advisory work is a fixed-scope project price, quoted up front. Managed hosting is a monthly retainer sized to the estate, not billed per ticket — you shouldn’t have to weigh whether a problem is worth reporting. Infrastructure costs are yours directly and we help you forecast them.

Tell us what you’re running today.

Even a rough list is enough to start. We’ll tell you what’s fine, what’s costing more than it should, and what would keep us up at night.

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