A server in the broom cupboard costs more than its invoice suggests. It needs cooling, a UPS whose batteries wear out every couple of years, a door that locks and somebody keeping watch. Renting capacity in an EU data centre removes all of that and swaps a big purchase every five years for a predictable monthly fee.
Five services spanning a modest server for your website, whole physical machines, and mail and calendars on your own domain.
Virtual machines with guaranteed resources. Memory and CPU go up when Christmas trading or year-end closing piles on the pressure and come back down afterwards, with nothing to migrate.
An entire physical machine reserved for you, with no neighbours eating into performance. A good fit for large databases, ERP and steady heavy workloads. The data centre replaces faulty parts; we look after everything else.
A ready-made stack for WooCommerce, self-hosted Bitrix24 and other PHP applications: tuned versions, caching, outgoing mail that avoids the spam folder and backups on a fixed schedule.
Room for files, media and backups where you pay only for what is stored. It sits outside your own network and can be locked against deletion, which is exactly what a backup copy needs.
Mailboxes on your domain, shared calendars for meeting rooms and contacts on every phone, usually through Microsoft 365. We configure SPF, DKIM and DMARC so your messages land in inboxes.
Renting is not always cheaper. Run the numbers over three years and include the costs that seldom appear in the purchase budget.
Model 1
Your own hardware
The box sits on your premises and everything around it is your responsibility.
Model 2
Rented in a data centre
Hardware, power and cooling stay at the facility. You pay monthly.
Verdict
Which suits you
Compare three years, with every running cost included.
Hosting is no substitute for backup. The provider vouches for working hardware, not for a database a colleague deleted or files scrambled by ransomware. You still need copies, ideally in a second data centre.
We plan the move so nobody is left waiting. The cut-over itself takes minutes and can be reversed at any point.
Sizing follows actual consumption rather than a generous hunch. Idle capacity would otherwise show up on every monthly invoice.
The new environment is set up, data is copied across and everything is tested while the old system carries on as usual.
The final sync and DNS change happen outside office hours. The previous server stays available as a safety net for a while.
During the first week we track load and fine-tune resources. After that the environment moves into routine operation with us.
In data centres inside the EU. That keeps GDPR simpler, because personal data is not transferred to countries outside the EU/EEA. We name the specific facility and share the provider's data processing agreement with our quote, so you can update your records of processing.
A VPS can be given more memory and CPU cores within minutes, typically with a brief restart. We monitor consumption and warn you before users notice anything slowing down.
The data centre handles power, connectivity and hardware. Everything inside the operating system, such as updates, configuration and monitoring, is our job, either under a managed IT agreement or at our hourly rate.
Yes, using the same method in reverse. We avoid closed formats, and disk images and data exports are yours whenever you ask. You stay with us because it works, not because you are locked in.
Tell us what needs moving: an online shop, finance system, email or a document archive. We will work out the capacity required and quote a fixed monthly price excluding VAT.
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