Web and infrastructure advisory

The problem this solves

Infrastructure decisions are hard to reverse and easy to get talked into. The bill goes up every year, the architecture reflects a decision somebody made in 2019, and the people best placed to tell you whether it is right are usually the people selling it to you.

We sell no hosting, resell no software, and take no commissions. That means we can answer the question you asked rather than the one that pays us.

What we help with

• Architecture and platform choices. What to build on, what to move, what to leave exactly where it is. Whether you are starting something new or making sense of what you inherited.
• Hosting and cloud strategy. Where things should run and what that genuinely costs. Cloud bill shock is pushing businesses back towards on-prem, and sometimes that is right and sometimes it is an overcorrection. The answer depends on your workload, not on the trend.
• Reliability and performance. Why it falls over, why it is slow, and what it would take to fix. What you should be monitoring, and what your monitoring is currently missing.
• Cost review. What you are spending, on what, and which parts are load-bearing. Renewals are a good moment to ask, and most increases arrive with no working attached.
• Resilience and exit. What happens if a supplier fails, gets acquired, or puts prices up 40%. What your contract actually says. How hard it would be to leave, which is worth knowing before you need to.
• The forgotten estate. Old DNS records, domains, certificates, and kit still running somewhere. Stale DNS means your systems may be phoning an address a stranger now controls. It is dull work and it finds real problems.

Holding a provider to account

A recurring job: something is wrong, your provider says it is not them, and you have no way to prove otherwise. The conversation goes in circles because it is one party's word against another's, and they own all the instrumentation.

The way out is your own evidence. Independent measurement, gathered over enough time to show a pattern, correlated with what your customers actually experienced. That turns "it feels slow" into a documented account of what happened and when, which is a different conversation entirely. It is also the only version of this that works, because a supplier can dismiss an anecdote and cannot dismiss a fortnight of data.

We do this work, and we are equally willing to tell you when the evidence shows the problem is at your end. That is the point of asking someone with nothing to sell.

Where we are useful, and where we are not

This suits businesses that depend on their web presence or infrastructure, have an existing provider or in-house setup, and want an independent read on whether it is right. Typically that means you are past the point where a single developer can answer the question, but nowhere near needing a full-time infrastructure team.

We are advisors, not a hosting company. We will not take over running your estate. If what you need is a provider rather than a view, we will help you choose one and then get out of the way.

What you get

A written assessment: what you have, what works, what does not, what it costs, and what we would change in what order. With the reasoning shown, so you can weigh it against what you know about your own business and your own plans.

Everything we produce is yours. No lock-in, no portal, no proprietary tooling you would have to keep paying for.

Scope and price

The first piece of work is tightly scoped and fixed price, agreed in writing before it starts. You know the deliverable and the cost up front, and after that we can work whichever way the project needs.