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Cloud hosting and environments
Production, staging and preview environments that actually match, so what you tested is what you shipped.
Cloud and DevOps
Infrastructure that needs no heroics,set up once, properly.
Hosting, deployment pipelines, monitoring and backups you have actually restored from, in cloud accounts that belong to you.
The problem
Why does infrastructure only get attention when it breaks?
Because it was set up quickly by someone who was never going to run it, and nobody revisited it afterwards.
How it usually goes
- Set up quickly by someone who was never going to run it
- Deployments only one person knows how to perform
- Backups nobody has ever restored from
- A bill that grows and nobody can explain
- Secrets sitting in the repository or a shared document
- No alerting, so customers report the outage first
How we do it
- Infrastructure defined in code, not clicked together
- Push to a branch and it deploys itself
- Backups with a restore we have actually tested
- Unused resources found and removed, then reviewed
- Secrets in a manager, with least privilege access
- Alerts routed to a person before the first complaint
How it works
From a commit to production
No manual steps, no deploying from somebody laptop, no knowledge that lives in one person head. A push runs the same path every time, and monitoring closes the loop.
- 01
Commit
- Push to a branch
- Reviewed before merge
- 02
Pipeline
- Tests, lint and build
- Fails loudly, early
- 03
Preview
- A live link per change
- Seen before it ships
- 04
Production
- Deployed automatically
- Rollback in one step
- 05
Monitoring
- Uptime and errors
- Alerts before customers
Fix and redeploy, back to Commit
Cloud and DevOps
What we set up
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Deployment pipelines
Push to a branch, tests run, the build deploys itself. No manual steps, no tribal knowledge, no deploying from somebody laptop.
03
Monitoring and alerting
Uptime, errors and performance watched, with alerts routed to the right person before the first customer complains.
04
Backups and recovery
Automated backups you have actually restored from at least once, because an untested backup is a hope rather than a plan.
05
Migration off legacy hosting
Moving from a shared host, a single ageing server or a previous provider, planned so the switch happens without a visible outage.
06
Cloud cost reduction
Finding what you are paying for and not using. Bills grow quietly, and a first pass usually finds more than people expect.
Recovery should be a documented procedure, not an improvisation at two in the morning.
As standard
In every setup
- 01Infrastructure defined in code, not clicked together
- 02HTTPS everywhere and secrets outside the repository
- 03Least privilege access on every service
- 04Automated backups with a tested restore
- 05Runbook written down for the failures that matter
- 06Cloud accounts created in your name, with you as owner
The timeline
What a typical engagement looks like
Most of this happens alongside your existing setup still running, so the switch is a decision rather than a leap.
- Week 1
Audit what exists
What runs, what it costs, what is manual, and what breaks if the server dies.
- Week 2
Plan and price
The target setup, migration path and rollback, priced before anything moves.
- Weeks 3 to 4
Build in parallel
The new environment is created alongside the old and tested with real data.
- Week 5
Migrate
Data synchronised, then a reversible DNS switch, scheduled when it costs least.
- Ongoing
Watch and reduce
Alerts routed to the right person, and a cost review as things grow.
- Week 1
Audit what exists
What runs, what it costs, what is manual, and what breaks if the server dies.
- Week 2
Plan and price
The target setup, migration path and rollback, priced before anything moves.
- Weeks 3 to 4
Build in parallel
The new environment is created alongside the old and tested with real data.
- Week 5
Migrate
Data synchronised, then a reversible DNS switch, scheduled when it costs least.
- Ongoing
Watch and reduce
Alerts routed to the right person, and a cost review as things grow.
Questions
Questions about cloud and DevOps work
In almost every case yes. The new environment is built and tested in parallel, data is synchronised, and the switch is a DNS change that can be reversed if anything looks wrong. Where a brief window is genuinely unavoidable we tell you in advance and schedule it when it costs you least.
You do, from the start. Accounts are created in your name with you as the owner and we work inside them as collaborators. This matters most on the day you stop working with us, which is exactly when a provider holding your infrastructure becomes an expensive problem.
Yes, and it is a common first engagement. Bills grow through forgotten environments, oversized instances, storage nobody deleted and data transfer patterns that were never examined. A review is short work and usually pays for itself.
Probably not, and we will say so. Most businesses your size are better served by managed platforms that remove the operational burden entirely. Kubernetes earns its complexity at a scale and team size most companies never reach, and adopting it early usually buys you a full time job rather than an advantage.
Tell us what is fragile.
Whether it is outages, deployments nobody can perform, or a bill that keeps climbing. We will look at what you have and tell you what it would take to make it boring.