Cloud Solutions
Hosting designed around what your application actually needs, with the monitoring and backups that make it safe to rely on.
Hosting sized to the load you actually have, with backups that have been restored from.
Outside the largest businesses, the reason to move to the cloud is rarely scale. It is that the server in the office has no redundancy, no monitoring, an untested backup and nobody whose job it is to patch it.
The move is worth doing carefully. Lifting a virtual machine into the cloud and changing nothing else gets you resilience and little else; the savings and the reliability come from using managed services for the parts that should not be hand-operated.
Hosting designed around what your application actually needs, with the monitoring and backups that make it safe to rely on.
Software shaped around the way your business already works, instead of a packaged product you have to reorganise around.
Keeping working systems working — including ones built by somebody else.
Systems for organisations where several departments, sites and approval chains all have to work from the same data.
People look for this subject using a lot of different wording. These all describe the same thing, and this is the page for all of them.
Not necessarily on the invoice. It usually costs less in total once you count downtime, the time somebody spends maintaining the machine, and the hardware you no longer replace every few years.
For most business systems all three are capable. The deciding factors are usually what your team already knows and what you already pay for — an organisation on Microsoft 365 has a good reason to look at Azure first.
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Describe it in your own words and we will tell you what it would take, or whether something simpler would do the job.