Cloud Services

Most small businesses do not need a cloud strategy. They need their website to stay up, load fast, back itself up, and cost a predictable amount each month. That is what we deliver from our Southampton studio: EU-hosted infrastructure, containerised deployments and monitoring that tells us about a problem before your customers do. For businesses that genuinely do need to scale, we design for that too.

What Our Cloud Services Cover

1. Hosting and Infrastructure

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  EU and UK data residency

  We host on Hetzner and comparable EU providers, keeping personal data inside the EEA and simplifying your UK GDPR position.

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  VPS provisioning and hardening

  Firewall rules, SSH key-only access, automatic security updates and fail2ban configured from the first boot, not bolted on later.

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  Reverse proxy and TLS

  Caddy or nginx with automatic certificate renewal, HTTP/2 and security headers, so HTTPS never silently expires.

2. Deployment and Automation

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  CI/CD pipelines

  GitLab CI or GitHub Actions running lint, tests and typecheck before anything reaches production, then deploying automatically on merge.

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  Zero-downtime releases

  Health-checked rolling deploys so visitors never meet a maintenance page during an update.

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  Infrastructure as code

  Server configuration kept in version control, so a rebuild is a repeatable process rather than an afternoon of remembering.

3. Backups, Monitoring and Recovery

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  Automated offsite backups

  Nightly database and file backups to separate storage, with restores tested rather than assumed.

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  Uptime and error alerting

  Health checks, log aggregation and alerts to a phone, so downtime is measured in minutes rather than discovered by a customer.

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  Documented recovery plan

  A written runbook covering who does what if a server, domain or provider fails.

4. Scaling and Cost Control

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  Right-sized from the start

  A brochure site does not need a Kubernetes cluster. We recommend the smallest setup that meets your traffic, then scale when the numbers justify it.

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  CDN and caching

  Static assets served from the edge for faster loads in Hampshire, across the UK and internationally.

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  Migration from expensive hosts

  Moving off overpriced shared hosting or a legacy provider, including DNS, email and certificate cutover with no downtime.

Managed Hosting Plans

If you want the infrastructure handled entirely, our managed hosting plans bundle the server, updates, backups and monitoring into one annual price.

• Simple Site Hosting for brochure sites and small business websites.
• Business Site Hosting for larger sites with higher traffic.
• Shop Site Hosting for WooCommerce and other online stores.

Cloud work pairs naturally with our Docker containerisation, server management and security services. If your site is slow or falling over and you are not sure why, run our free website health scanner first.