Hosting, Cloud & DevOps
Nobody on board refuels the aircraft
The reason it leaves on time is a crew the passengers never meet: power, fuel, loading, checks, all to a manual, all before anyone notices. That's infrastructure. Your team should be flying the thing, not standing under it with a hose.
On stand
4 services attached
Pushback
on time
The least remarkable event of the day, and the entire job. If a departure is interesting, something has gone wrong somewhere behind it.
As code
Reproducible, documented
Reversible
Rollback on every release
Right-sized
Up at peak, down when quiet
Rehearsed
Recovery in minutes
The brief
Who knows how it was set up?
Clicked out in a console
Somebody remembers
It works. It has always worked. The settings live in a web console and in one person's head, the risky defaults are still where they were left, and rebuilding it would mean an afternoon of archaeology and a lot of guessing. Then that person takes a new job.
Defined as code
It's written down
The infrastructure is a file. It's reviewed, versioned, documented, and reproducible. You can stand the whole thing up again from the definition, which also means we can hand it back, and nobody's notice period is an operational risk.
Both of these are running right now, in production, serving customers, and from the outside they look identical. The difference only shows up on the day you need to change something, restore something, or prove something, which is exactly the day you can't afford to be finding out.
What you get out of it
Infra that isn't your problem
We run the hosting, the deploys, and the monitoring, so your team ships instead of firefighting servers. Nobody on board is meant to be thinking about the fuel truck.
Deploys that are boring
Automated, tested, reversible releases, so shipping is a non-event instead of a white-knuckle Friday. An on-time pushback is the least remarkable thing that happens all day.
Reliable and right-sized
It scales up under load and back down when quiet, so it's fast when busy and lean when it isn't. You open the stands the schedule actually needs.
What we run
Six services on the stand
Cloud infrastructure
Set up and managed on AWS, GCP, or Azure, configured properly and cleared of risky defaults. Defaults are the checklist nobody read.
CI/CD pipelines
Automated build, test, and deploy on every change, with preview environments and safe releases, so shipping stops being an event you brace for.
Monitoring & alerts
Uptime, performance, and errors watched around the clock, with alerts before users feel it. The first call comes from the ground crew, long before the cabin notices.
Autoscaling
Capacity that grows with demand and shrinks when quiet: fast at peak, efficient off-peak. Stands open for the rush and close again after it.
Security & hardening
Access controls, patching, SSL, and configuration hardened against the obvious risks, which is where the unobvious incidents almost always start.
Backups & recovery
Tested backups and a real recovery plan, so a failure means a restore. An untested backup is a drill nobody has ever run.
Standard on every stand
The checklist, in full
- 01Automated deploys with tests on every release
- 02One-click (or automatic) rollback if something's off
- 03Preview environments for every change before it ships
- 04Monitoring and alerting around the clock
- 05Cost watched and optimized as you scale
- 06Infrastructure defined as code, documented and reproducible
How we work
Taking the ground over
01
Assess
We review your current setup, its risks, costs, and where deploys and reliability hurt. Most of the answer is already visible in what hurts on a Friday.
02
Set up
We build the infrastructure and CI/CD pipeline as code, with monitoring and backups, written down so it can be rebuilt instead of remembered.
03
Migrate
We move you over safely, with zero or minimal downtime and a rollback plan. A migration without a way back is a bet.
04
Operate
We run and optimize it (deploys, scaling, security, and cost) so you don't have to. This is the part that never finishes, which is rather the point.
The thinking behind it
Six positions, stated plainly
You could host it yourself
And for some teams that's right. But cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, scaling, security, and backups are a full-time discipline, and doing them badly is where outages and breaches come from. Managed, your team ships features and stops babysitting servers, usually more reliably and often more cheaply than a part-time DIY setup.
The cloud follows your needs
AWS, GCP, or Azure, whichever fits your needs, budget, and existing setup. We configure it with infrastructure as code, so nothing depends on someone clicking around a console and no risky defaults stay in place. It's reproducible and documented.
Boring is the target
Every change built, tested, and deployed through an automated pipeline, with preview environments to check it first and one-click or automatic rollback if anything's off. The goal is deploys so safe and routine they're boring.
A spike shouldn't be a story
Autoscaling means capacity grows with demand and shrinks when it's quiet: fast and reliable during a spike, with no idle servers to pay for the rest of the time. We load-test where it matters so nobody is left hoping.
A backup isn't a recovery plan
Tested backups and a real, written recovery plan, well beyond 'there's a backup somewhere.' If the worst happens, recovery is a defined, rehearsed process measured in minutes.
We'll take over what you already have
We assess what you have, document it, shore up the risks, and take over operations, often migrating to a cleaner infrastructure-as-code setup along the way, with minimal disruption.
Why it pays
Your engineers go back to shipping
The hours currently spent on servers, certificates, and deploy anxiety return to the product. That's usually the largest line in the whole calculation.
Friday stops being a risk window
Tested, reversible releases mean the day of the week stops mattering, which is a strange thing to have been organizing a business around.
The bill matches the traffic
Up at peak and down when quiet, watched as you scale, so you stop paying for headroom you only need eleven days a year.
A bad day has a procedure
Rehearsed recovery turns the worst case from an improvisation into a process with a clock on it.
Selected work
Two systems somebody had to keep in the air
What you get
Handed over, and reproducible
Reproducible is the word doing the work. Every item here is defined as code and version-controlled, so the environment can be rebuilt instead of remembered. That's the difference between a platform you own and one that depends on whoever set it up.
- Managed cloud infrastructure, set up right
- Automated CI/CD with preview and rollback
- 24/7 monitoring and alerting
- Autoscaling and performance tuning
- Backups, recovery, and security hardening
- Cost optimization and clear reporting
Industry expertise
Schedules we already run to
E-commerce & retail
Where the spike is the business, and the eleven days a year that matter can't be the eleven days it falls over.
SaaS platforms
Products deploying constantly, where release friction becomes a tax on every single thing the team wants to do.
Financial services
Hardening and access control under obligation, where 'we're not sure how it was configured' is itself the finding.
Healthcare & clinical
Systems that cannot be down and cannot be improvised back, so recovery has to be a rehearsed process with a number on it.
Logistics & distribution
Operations running to a clock, where a deploy that needs a quiet window never actually gets one.
Media & publishing
Traffic that arrives all at once and without warning, then leaves, and shouldn't be paid for in between.
Stand
—
unassigned
Show us what you're running now
We'll assess it, document it, tell you where the risks and the wasted spend are, and take it over, usually migrating to something cleaner along the way. You don't need to tidy it up first; that's the job.
Why us for this
We write it down, never click it out
Infrastructure as code means your setup is documented and reproducible. A console configured by hand is a system only one person understands, and only until they leave.
We rehearse the bad day
Backups get tested and recovery gets written. An untested backup is a story you tell yourself, and you find out which it was at the worst possible moment.
We'll adopt your existing mess
Assess, document, shore up the risks, take over, and migrate to something cleaner along the way. You don't have to tidy up before calling us.
Working with Flaidex
Your cloud, chosen for you
AWS, GCP, or Azure, chosen for your needs, budget, and what you already run. Our own favorites don't come into it.
Cost is watched as you scale
Optimized and reported monthly, so the bill never surprises you at renewal. Right-sizing is part of running it, with no annual panic.
Boring on purpose
If deploys are exciting, something is wrong. We're aiming for the least interesting release process you've ever had.
Questions
Asked before we take the ground
Why not just host it ourselves?
You can, and for some teams that's right. But cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, scaling, security, and backups are a full-time discipline, and doing them badly is where outages and breaches come from. We handle it as a managed service so your team ships features and stops babysitting servers, usually more reliably and often more cheaply than a part-time DIY setup.
Which cloud do you use?
AWS, GCP, or Azure, whichever fits your needs, budget, and any existing setup. We configure it properly with infrastructure as code, with no clicking around a console and no risky defaults left in place, so it's reproducible and documented.
How do deploys work?
Through an automated CI/CD pipeline: every change is built, tested, and deployed, with preview environments to check it first and one-click (or automatic) rollback if anything's off. The goal is deploys so safe and routine they're boring.
Will it handle a traffic spike?
Yes. We set up autoscaling so capacity grows with demand and shrinks when it's quiet: fast and reliable during a spike, with no idle servers to pay for the rest of the time. We load-test where it matters.
What about backups and disaster recovery?
We set up tested backups and a real, written recovery plan, well beyond 'there's a backup somewhere.' If the worst happens, recovery is a defined, rehearsed process measured in minutes.
Can you take over our existing infrastructure?
Yes. We assess what you have, document it, shore up the risks, and take over operations, often migrating to a cleaner, infrastructure-as-code setup along the way, with minimal disruption.
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