The invoice is a mystery
Four services, three of them unused, on a currency that moves with the exchange rate. Nobody can say which line keeps the site online.
Services
Cloud infrastructure
The bill arrives every month and nobody can explain the line items. The site is slow on Thursday afternoons, the connection drops in a storm, and whoever set up the server left a folder of screenshots as documentation. Hosting is a set of decisions about where the data lives and who is called when it stops, not a product you buy once.
Who it is for
- Businesses whose site or internal system sits on an account nobody inside the company controls.
- Teams preparing a first deployment, unsure whether to rent a server or a cloud region.
- Companies with an office in Algeria and customers abroad that have to satisfy both.
Problems it solves
The connection is the single point of failure
The system is fine; the line is not. On a bad afternoon the counter waits and the staff go back to paper.
The deployment is a person
Releasing a fix means one engineer remoting in from a laptop. If that person is away, the fix waits.
Use cases
A cloud region with a managed database
The application and the database in a European region, with daily snapshots, HTTPS, and a bill you can read line by line.
A local server for a single site
One machine in the office for a system used only there, with a power backup, a fixed local address and a documented restore.
Deployment from a pipeline
A push to the repository builds, tests and releases. The steps live in a file, not in someone's memory.
Monitoring and an alert that reaches a person
Uptime, disk space and certificate expiry checked from outside, with an alert that goes to a phone rather than an inbox nobody opens.
What is in scope
Fixed scope. Fixed price.
Agreed in writing before anything is built. You approve before we start.
- An inventory of what runs where, and who owns each account
- A deployment pipeline: build, test, release, roll back
- Staging and production environments with separate credentials
- Domain, DNS, TLS certificates and their renewal
- Monitoring, alerting and a monthly cost review
- A runbook for restore, redeploy and the first hour of an outage
How it is delivered
- 01
Audit what already exists
Accounts, servers, domains and the actual traffic, starting with whoever deploys today — often the owner. Half the first meeting goes on finding out who holds the login.
- 02
Decide the location
Data residency, latency and the reliability of the office line point to different answers. We put the trade-off in writing before choosing. Algerian rules on hosting personal data are a legal question as much as a technical one: we describe what the system stores and where, and your lawyer confirms what is required.
- 03
Move one service at a time
The site first, then the database, then the scheduled jobs. Each step has a rollback that was tested, not one that was described.
- 04
Leave the bill and the runbook
A monthly figure you can predict, and a page that says what to do when it stops.
FAQ
Questions about this service.
What owners usually ask before requesting a quote for it.
A local server or a cloud region?
Local is right when the system is used in one building, the data should stay in the country, and the office line is stable enough. Cloud is right when users are mobile, when load varies, or when nobody on site can restart a machine at eight in the morning. Most of our clients end up with both: a cloud site and a local system.
What does hosting cost per month?
Hosting is usually a small line next to the domain, the database and the backups, and it depends on traffic and on whether you want a staging copy. We give the estimate before we build, and the bill is in your name so you can read it without asking us.
What happens when the connection drops?
It depends on the design. A cloud-only system stops; a local server keeps working inside the building; a counter with an offline queue keeps selling and syncs later, at the cost of conflicts that have to be resolved. We will not claim offline tolerance a system does not have.
Do we still have to do anything?
Yes. The accounts stay in your name, someone at your end has to receive an alert and be able to reach the office, and the monthly bill is yours to pay. We can run the infrastructure; we cannot be the only person who knows it exists.
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Want this scoped for your business?
Send the brief. It comes back as a written scope and a fixed quote before anything is built.