Managed hosting, monitoring, and patching
We host, monitor, back up, and patch your web and application workloads so you can stop thinking about the infrastructure. Optional, month-to-month, cancelable with 30 days notice.
Who this is for
Signals it's time to bring in an outside engineer for this work.
You built something in the cloud and now nobody wants to babysit it
Patching, monitoring, cost alerts, backup verification. Boring but essential. We do it so your team can build.
You want managed hosting without an MSP contract
A month-to-month arrangement with clear SLA, no auto-renewing multi-year lock-in.
Your uptime story is "we hope for the best"
No monitoring, no alerting, no runbook. First you hear about downtime is a customer email. We fix that.
Backups run but nobody has tested a restore
Untested backups are just a spreadsheet feeling. We build a restore-testing cadence.
What we deliver
The specific capabilities we scope, build, and hand off.
Managed web + app hosting
Your Next.js, WordPress, Docker workloads on infrastructure we operate. SSL, backups, monitoring bundled.
Uptime + performance monitoring
Synthetic checks, real user monitoring, response-time alerting. Slack, SMS, email, webhook.
Backup + disaster recovery
Off-site backups, encryption at rest, periodic restore drills, documented recovery plan.
Patching + updates
OS, runtime, framework, and dependency updates on a defined schedule. Emergency patches for CVEs.
Cost monitoring
Monthly cost report, budget alerts, right-sizing recommendations. FinOps applied to your account.
On-call incident response
Optional after-hours coverage. If the site goes down at 2am, we get paged.
A typical engagement
Sample tier: Standard managed hosting for 1 web app
- Docker workload on Azure Container Apps or AWS ECS
- Cloudflare CDN + WAF + SSL termination
- Automated daily backups to off-site storage, 30-day retention
- Uptime monitoring with 1-minute check interval + email/SMS alerts
- OS + framework patching on monthly cadence, emergency CVE patches within 48h
- Monthly ops report: uptime %, incidents, backup verification, cost
- Business-hours (9-6 ET) response for tickets, next-business-day resolution SLA
Timeline
Same-week onboarding
Fixed fee from
$450/mo
Confirmed in SOW
Platforms we deploy for cloud managed services
Common questions
How is this different from a traditional MSP retainer?
Two ways. First: month-to-month with 30-day notice, not multi-year auto-renewing. Second: scope is defined for the specific workloads we host, not open-ended "IT support." You know exactly what you're getting for the fee.
What if I only need monitoring, not full hosting?
Available as a lighter tier. We install monitoring, set up alerting to your existing infrastructure, and check in monthly. Starts at $150/mo.
Do you offer 24/7 on-call?
Yes, as an add-on for critical workloads. Extra $200/mo per environment for after-hours pager response with 30-minute acknowledgement SLA.
Can you take over hosting that's already running elsewhere?
Yes. We do the migration as a fixed-fee project first (usually 1-2 weeks), then start managed hosting from cutover. See the Migrations practice.
Ready to scope a project?
Book a 15-minute discovery call. We'll listen, ask questions, and tell you plainly whether the engagement is a fit.