Managed Cloud Hosting
Cloud infrastructure architected, hardened, monitored and operated for you — on AWS, Google Cloud, Hetzner, DigitalOcean or Contabo
Cloud hosting means your application runs on virtualised infrastructure you can resize on demand, instead of a fixed physical box you outgrow or overpay for. Managed cloud hosting means you do not operate it yourself. We architect the environment, harden it, monitor it, patch it, back it up and stay on call for it — so your team ships features instead of chasing disk space at 2am.
In short
- Managed, not merely rented. We provision, secure, monitor and patch the servers — you do not need a sysadmin on payroll.
- Any provider. AWS, Google Cloud, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Contabo, or an account you already own.
- Included as standard: encrypted off-site backups, Cloudflare in front of the origin, TLS with auto-renewal, host firewall, and uptime plus resource monitoring with alerting.
- Built to grow. Resize CPU, RAM and storage without rebuilding; add load-balanced nodes when traffic justifies it.
- Workloads we run daily: Laravel, Node.js, Next.js, WordPress, ERPNext, and containerised applications.
Fully Managed
We handle provisioning, hardening, patching, backups and incident response. You get a working environment, not a blank server and a login.
Scales With Demand
Resize CPU, RAM and storage in minutes. When a single node stops being enough, we move you to a load-balanced setup without a rewrite.
Secured by Default
Host firewall, fail2ban, SSH key-only access, least-privilege database users, automatic security updates, and Cloudflare WAF at the edge.
Backed Up and Watched
Encrypted off-site backups on a defined schedule, plus Prometheus, Grafana and Sentry monitoring with alerts routed to a channel you actually read.
What a Managed Cloud Hosting Engagement Actually Covers
Every item below is set up, documented and then operated on an ongoing basis — not handed over as a one-off installation.
| Area | What we set up and operate |
|---|---|
| Provisioning & sizing | Right-sized instance selection, OS installation, storage layout, private networking, and DNS cutover planned for zero downtime. |
| Application stack | Nginx or Apache, PHP-FPM, Node.js, Redis, MySQL/MariaDB or PostgreSQL — tuned to your workload rather than left on distribution defaults. |
| Security hardening | Host firewall (CSF/UFW), fail2ban, SSH key-only access, unattended security updates, least-privilege database accounts, and TLS certificates with automatic renewal. |
| Edge, CDN & DDoS | Cloudflare in front of the origin: DNS, cache rules, WAF, bot management, DDoS mitigation, and origin IP protection so your server is never hit directly. |
| Backups & recovery | Automated encrypted backups on an agreed schedule, stored off-site on separate infrastructure, with a written restore procedure and periodic restore drills. |
| Monitoring & alerting | Prometheus and Grafana for resource metrics, blackbox probes for uptime, Sentry for application errors — with alert thresholds agreed with you, not guessed. |
| Deployment | Zero-downtime deployment pipeline (Jenkins or GitHub Actions), one-command rollback, and a separate staging environment that mirrors production. |
| Reporting | A monthly uptime, utilisation and capacity report that tells you what to upgrade before you hit the ceiling, not after. |
We are a managed service provider, not a datacentre operator. The infrastructure runs on the cloud provider you choose and the account can remain in your name — our role is the architecture, configuration, security and day-to-day operation on top of it.
Which Workload Are You Hosting?
Laravel & PHP Applications
PHP-FPM tuning, OPcache, queue workers, scheduled jobs, Redis caching, and log rotation configured the way a Laravel application actually needs.
E-commerce & High Traffic
Full-page and object caching, edge caching rules, database read tuning, and capacity headroom sized for campaign spikes rather than average load.
ERP & Internal Systems
ERPNext, Odoo and custom back-office systems: private networking, VPN or IP-restricted access, and backup policies matched to how much data loss the business can tolerate.
Containerised Workloads
Docker and Docker Compose deployments, private registries, container health checks, and log aggregation — without over-engineering a Kubernetes cluster you do not need.
What You Receive
- Infrastructure architecture document — a diagram of servers, networking and data flow, so the environment does not live only in one engineer's head.
- A hardened, production-ready environment — provisioned, tuned and load-tested before any real traffic is pointed at it.
- Backup and disaster recovery runbook — with a tested restore procedure and a stated recovery point and recovery time objective.
- Monitoring dashboards and alert rules — Grafana dashboards handed to you, in your account, not locked behind ours.
- Deployment pipeline and staging environment — so releasing stops being a manual, risky, Thursday-night event.
- Full credentials and ownership — the infrastructure is yours. If you ever want to move it in-house or to another provider, nothing here holds you hostage.
How We Onboard You
- Discovery call — we review your current stack, traffic profile, growth expectations, and any compliance constraints you are working under.
- Sizing and quote — a right-sized architecture with the cloud provider cost and our management fee itemised separately, so you always know what you are paying for.
- Build and hardening — we provision and configure the new environment in parallel while your existing site stays live and untouched.
- Migration rehearsal — a complete dry-run migration onto the new environment, verified end to end before anyone goes near DNS.
- Cutover — the DNS switch happens in a low-traffic window, with the old environment kept warm as an instant rollback path.
- Ongoing operation — monitoring, patching, backups and a monthly report, with a ticketed support channel and an agreed response time.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between cloud hosting and shared hosting?
On shared hosting your site sits alongside many others on one server, with fixed limits you cannot change and neighbours who can affect your performance. Cloud hosting gives you isolated, dedicated resources you can resize on demand. Shared hosting is right for a brochure site; cloud hosting is right once uptime, traffic or data sensitivity actually matter to the business.
Do I have to buy the servers from you, or can I use my own account?
Either works. Many clients keep the cloud account in their own name and simply add us as an operator — the invoice comes to them from AWS or Hetzner, and they pay us only the management fee. Others prefer a single consolidated invoice. We do not mark up infrastructure cost silently in either model.
Who owns the servers and the data?
You do. The account can be in your name, the data is yours, and we hand over full root credentials and documentation. There is no proprietary control panel and no lock-in layer between you and your own infrastructure.
What uptime should I actually expect?
A properly architected single-region setup with monitoring and managed patching realistically sustains around 99.9% availability, which is roughly 43 minutes of downtime a month. Beating that meaningfully requires multi-node redundancy and a higher budget — we will tell you honestly whether your workload justifies it rather than selling you a number.
How often are backups taken, and how fast can you restore?
The schedule is agreed with you and depends on how much data loss your business can tolerate. Daily encrypted off-site backups are the common baseline, with more frequent database snapshots for transactional systems. Restore time depends on data volume, and we test restores periodically rather than assuming they work.
Can you migrate my existing site with no downtime?
In most cases yes. We build the new environment in parallel, run a full rehearsal migration, sync the final delta, then switch DNS during a quiet window with a short TTL. The old environment stays running until we are confident, so rollback is immediate if anything is wrong.
Is cloud hosting more expensive than a fixed hosting plan?
The infrastructure line item is usually higher than shared hosting and often lower than an oversized dedicated server, because you pay for what you actually need and resize as you go. The honest comparison is not the monthly invoice — it is the cost of an outage, a lost database, or a developer spending their week doing sysadmin work.
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