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Cloud & Hosting

Cloud, on-premise, or the right mix of both

Architecture, migration and hosting decided by your constraints, not by a vendor's roadmap

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At a glance

Typical duration
One workload moves in under a week. A full estate with tested disaster recovery takes 4–10 weeks
Covers
6 areas
What changes
4 outcomes
First step
Paid discovery, credited
You receive
5 deliverables
What changes for you

Running cost you can forecast instead of a bill that surprises you

  • Capacity that grows without a procurement cycle
  • Recovery measured in hours, with the test to prove it
  • Regulated or sensitive data staying exactly where it must
Scope

What is inside cloud & hosting

01

Architecture and sizing

Sized against measured load, not vendor calculators. Includes the five-year cost comparison between cloud, on-premise and hybrid for your actual workload.

02

Migration

Lift-and-shift where it is the right answer, re-platforming where it pays for itself. Staged, reversible, with a defined cutover.

03

Hybrid deployments

Regulated or latency-sensitive systems stay on-site, the rest runs in the cloud, and the link between them is planned from the start.

04

Servers and virtualisation

Physical hosts, hypervisors, shared storage and clustering: supplied, installed and configured, for the workloads that belong on your own iron.

05

Backup and disaster recovery

Off-site replication, documented recovery objectives, and a failover you have rehearsed.

06

Cost control

Right-sizing, reserved capacity, and switching off the environments nobody is using. Ongoing, because cloud spend only ever drifts upward.

How it runs

Four stages.
No surprises.

Cloud & Hosting usually runs one workload moves in under a week. a full estate with tested disaster recovery takes 4–10 weeks.

01Discover2–5 days

We sit with the people who use the system, walk the site, and read the network. No proposal before we understand how the work is done today and where it breaks.

  • Discover

    2–5 days

    01

    Current-state map of systems and traffic

    Ranked list of what is costing you time or money

    A go / no-go recommendation, in writing

    For Cloud & HostingA hosting assessment: measured load, a costed comparison of cloud against on-premise against hybrid, and a recommendation with the reasoning shown.

  • Design

    3 days – 2 weeks

    02

    Solution architecture and integration plan

    Bill of materials with lead times

    Fixed-scope statement of work

  • Build & deploy

    1–8 weeks

    03

    Working increments on anything that takes more than a fortnight

    Staged cutover with a tested rollback

    Handover documentation as it is built, not after

  • Run & improve

    Ongoing

    04

    Monitored uptime with agreed response times

    Quarterly review against the original goals

    Capacity and security roadmap, refreshed each quarter

The question that decides it

"Cloud or on-premise" is the wrong first question. These four decide it:

  • What does this workload cost to run, measured over five years, in each option?
  • How long can it be down before it hurts, and how much data can you lose?
  • Is there a regulation, a contract or a customer who dictates where the data lives?
  • Who is going to operate it on a Tuesday afternoon in eighteen months?

Answer them and the hosting decision usually makes itself. Skip them and you get a migration that solves nothing and costs more every month. The longer version is here.

How we size

Vendor calculators assume you already know your requirements. Most people do not.

So we measure CPU, memory, disk and network over a normal stretch, including month-end, your busy season and your worst day, and size from what we see. The headroom is agreed in writing, not guessed.

Migration without a bad weekend

Workloads move in dependency order, one group at a time, each with a tested rollback. Data is replicated ahead of the cutover so the switch itself is minutes rather than hours. We run the rehearsal on a copy first.

Nobody finds out on Sunday night that the application cannot reach its database.

Disaster recovery you have tested

Two numbers matter and most companies have never written them down:

  • Recovery time objective — how long until you are working again.
  • Recovery point objective — how much data you accept losing.

We agree both with you, build to them, then rehearse a failover and report the real measured figures. If the rehearsal misses the target, the design changes. That is the point of rehearsing.

You receive

  • Architecture diagram with sizing rationale
  • Five-year total cost comparison across the options
  • Migration runbook with rollback at each stage
  • Documented recovery objectives plus a rehearsal report
  • Monitoring, alerting and a monthly cost report

Who this is for

  • Companies on ageing servers facing a refresh decision
  • Teams whose cloud bill has grown faster than their usage
  • Businesses needing real disaster recovery for the first time
  • Anyone told to "move to the cloud" without a reason attached

How it starts

A hosting assessment: measured load, a costed comparison of cloud against on-premise against hybrid, and a recommendation with the reasoning shown.

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Questions

About cloud & hosting

Sometimes. For spiky, growing or geographically spread workloads, usually yes. For a steady predictable load running 24/7 for five years, on-premise frequently wins on raw cost, and loses on flexibility and disaster recovery. We do the arithmetic for your workload and show you the working, because the answer varies.

Often bought together

Cloud & Hosting

Ready when you are. Start with a conversation, not a contract.

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