04 · Run

Boring infrastructure is the goal. Boring means nobody gets paged.

Q: Who owns the account?

You do. The cloud account, the registrar and the DNS are in your name and paid from your card. We are an administrator you can remove in about a minute.

Most small-business cloud accounts are one person’s console clicks from 2021, an SSL certificate somebody renews by hand, and a backup nobody has ever restored. We set it up as code, write down what everything is for, and make recovery a rehearsed routine instead of a hope.

See pricing

As code

every environment reproducible from the repository

Restored

backups proven by restoring them, on a schedule

One bill

cloud spend in your own account, reviewed monthly

What is in it

AWS setup
Azure setup
Google Cloud setup
Cloud migration
Docker and Kubernetes
CI/CD
GitHub Actions
Infrastructure as Code
Database architecture
Backups
Monitoring
Logging
Disaster recovery
DNS and CDN
SSL
Environment management
Storage
VPN and remote access
Domain management
Domain purchase and transfer

Moving a law office off the closet server

Files to SharePoint, email to Microsoft 365, the old practice app to a small Azure VM with nightly snapshots.

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Inventory and access audit
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Cutover plan with a rollback
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Migration over one weekend
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Two weeks of hypercare

Four ways to buy it

the flagship

Cloud Setup & Migration

AWS, Azure or Google Cloud set up as code, and the closet server moved without a lost weekend.

One weekend

typical cutover for a small business with a closet server

From $1,800

CI/CD, Containers & Infrastructure as Code

Every change tested and deployed the same way, every environment reproducible from the repo.

As code

every environment reproducible from the repository

From $1,500

Backups, Storage & Disaster Recovery

Backups proven by restoring them, storage that is organized, and a recovery you have rehearsed.

Restored

proven by restoring, on a schedule, not by a green checkmark

From $2,000

Domains, DNS, CDN & SSL

Domain purchase, transfer and renewals, DNS done right, and certificates that never expire on a Sunday.

$5 / domain / mo

management fee; registration and renewals at cost

$5 per domain per month

Also relevant here

Data Warehouse & Pipelines

ETL and ELT from every system into a warehouse you own, so every report reads from one place.

From $8,000

Free, thirty seconds

Not sure what state your domain is in?

Type it into the domain check and get a plain-English report: who handles the mail, whether SPF and DMARC are there, whether the site sits behind Cloudflare. Nothing stored.

Run the domain check

Pricing

From $1,800

Cloud account setup from $1,800. Migration from $3,500. CI/CD from $1,500. Disaster recovery plan and rehearsal from $2,000.

Monitoring, patching, backups and DNS under a managed plan. Domains $5 per domain per month, registration and renewals at cost.

Add to a package All project rates

Questions

Which cloud?

Whichever one your tools and team already lean toward. AWS by default for custom software, Azure when you live in Microsoft 365, Google Cloud when you live in Google Workspace. Cloudflare in front of all three.

Who owns the account?

Platforms we use here

AWS

Azure

GCP

Cloudflare

Microsoft 365

GitHub

Docker / Kubernetes

Google Workspace

Postgres

Shopify

QuickBooks

Book the 30 minutes. Worst case, you leave with a plan you can hand to someone else.

No deck. No pitch. You talk about what your week actually looks like and we write down what we would fix first.

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