Tier 1
Shared hosting
For company sites and landing pages.
- A tuned server we run
- SSL and scheduled off-site backups
- Uptime and security monitoring
- Migration from your current host
VPS with reserved resources and root access.
For online stores, web applications and systems that need resources and software of their own. You get a virtual server with root access. We set it up, and you decide which layers we run: patches, backups, monitoring, or all of them.
- Root access
- Always yours
- Management
- Add-ons, server by server
Four tiers
The question isn't where it runs. It's who is responsible for it.
A VPS is the step where the server becomes yours: we always run the hardware, and you choose which other layers we take on.
VPS
Apps and stores
- Hardware and networkData centre, power, network
- Comark
- OS and security patchesInstall, hardening, updates
- Add-on
- Backups and restore testsOff-site copies, restores proved
- Add-on
- Monitoring and alertsUptime, resources, security events
- Add-on
- Scaling and high availabilityCapacity, load balancing, replicas
- Add-on
- Application supportUpdates and fixes to your code
- Add-on
Dedicated
High traffic
- Hardware and networkData centre, power, network
- Comark
- OS and security patchesInstall, hardening, updates
- Comark
- Backups and restore testsOff-site copies, restores proved
- Add-on
- Monitoring and alertsUptime, resources, security events
- Comark
- Scaling and high availabilityCapacity, load balancing, replicas
- Add-on
- Application supportUpdates and fixes to your code
- Add-on
Managed
Critical systems
- Hardware and networkData centre, power, network
- Comark
- OS and security patchesInstall, hardening, updates
- Comark
- Backups and restore testsOff-site copies, restores proved
- Comark
- Monitoring and alertsUptime, resources, security events
- Comark
- Scaling and high availabilityCapacity, load balancing, replicas
- Comark
- Application supportUpdates and fixes to your code
- Comark
- Comark runs it
- Optional add-on
The final split is written into each service agreement.
What you get
A server of your own, set up for the application on it.
A server of your own, set up for the application that will run on it.
Reserved resources
vCPU, memory and disk allocated to your server, not shared with other accounts.
Root access
Install what the application needs: workers, Redis, Node.js, scheduled jobs.
Server setup
Linux, Nginx, PHP or Node.js, databases and the firewall, configured and documented.
Hardening
SSH keys, firewall rules and access limits from day one, whoever runs it after.
Managed add-ons
Patches, backups and monitoring run by us, chosen server by server.
Resizing
More CPU, memory or disk when the load grows, usually with a short restart.
Reserved resources
vCPU, memory and disk allocated to your server, not shared with other accounts.
Root access
Install what the application needs: workers, Redis, Node.js, scheduled jobs.
Server setup
Linux, Nginx, PHP or Node.js, databases and the firewall, configured and documented.
Hardening
SSH keys, firewall rules and access limits from day one, whoever runs it after.
Managed add-ons
Patches, backups and monitoring run by us, chosen server by server.
Resizing
More CPU, memory or disk when the load grows, usually with a short restart.
Setup
How a VPS is set up.
From sizing to handover, with the configuration written down.
Size it
We look at the application, its traffic and its data, and choose CPU, memory and disk with room to grow.
Build and harden
Linux installed and patched, SSH keys, firewall and users set up, then the web server, runtime and databases.
Deploy and test
The application deployed, scheduled jobs and workers running, and a backup restored once to prove it works.
Hand over or run
You get root access and the documentation. Your team runs the server, or we take on the add-ons you chose.
Plans
Sized to the system, not to a price list.
Starting points for each tier. The final configuration and price follow a short technical review of what you run.
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No prices on this page: we quote after a short technical review. Hosting for systems we build can be bundled with a managed website plan.
FAQ
Questions about VPS.
What is the difference between your hosting and a VPS?
On hosting, your site has an account on a server shared with other sites, and we run everything on it. A VPS is a server of its own, with reserved resources and root access, so it can run software a hosting account cannot. Our guide “Shared hosting, VPS or dedicated” on our blog compares them side by side.
Managed or self-managed: which should we choose?
If someone on your team patches servers, watches alerts and tests restores, self-managed works. If not, take at least patches, backups and monitoring as add-ons, because those are the three that get skipped when nobody owns them.
Do we keep root access if you manage the server?
Yes, root access stays with you either way. On a managed server we agree how changes are made, so our patches and your changes don't step on each other.
What happens when we outgrow the VPS?
We resize it, usually with a short restart. When the load needs more than one server, or the database needs a machine of its own, the next step is dedicated infrastructure with replicas and failover.
Can you move our application from another provider?
Yes. We build the new server, deploy and test the application on it, and switch DNS once it works. The database is copied last, so records written during the move are not lost.
Infrastructure review
Tell us what you run today. We'll tell you which tier fits.
An engineer reviews your setup and recommends a tier, including when you don't need to move at all.
In the review
- Current setup: servers, traffic, databases and backups today
- Risks we see: single points of failure, untested restores, outdated software
- Recommendation: tier, architecture and a migration plan if one is needed