Survive one thing going wrong.
Most outages are not dramatic. A zone has trouble, a certificate expires, one instance dies — and a system with no redundancy goes down with it.
We design and build cloud infrastructure that keeps running when one part fails, and costs what you expect. AWS and Cloudflare mainly. Usually two to six weeks, including a migration if you are moving.
Updated August 2026
How much redundancy is worth buying.
Each step up costs real money. Most businesses should stop at the second.
Two questions decide almost everything: what happens when one thing dies, and what does it cost at your growth.
Redundancy sounds expensive and mostly is not. Running across two availability zones rather than one is a modest increase and removes an entire category of outage. Running across two regions is genuinely expensive and most businesses do not need it.
Cost is the other half, and it is where cloud projects go wrong quietly. Bills grow because nothing is watching, not because of one bad decision — an oversized instance nobody revisited, storage never cleaned up, traffic routed the expensive way.
So we design for the failure you will actually have, and put the cost somewhere you will see it.
What we do.
Redundancy where it counts
Multi-zone by default. We will tell you when multi-region is not worth it, which is usually.
Cost visibility
Tagging, budgets and alerts, so a rising bill is noticed in week one rather than at quarter end.
Infrastructure as code
So the setup is reproducible and reviewable, not something one person remembers configuring.
Backups that restore
Automated and periodically tested. An untested backup is a hope.
Sensible networking
Private where it should be private. Databases open to the internet remain surprisingly common.
CDN and caching
Cheaper and faster than scaling servers. Usually the first thing to fix.
Migration without downtime
Running old and new in parallel, moving traffic gradually.
Documentation and handover
So your team can operate it, and so leaving us is straightforward.
How much redundancy do you need?
Each step up costs real money. Most businesses should stop at the second row.
| Setup | Survives | Cost | Right for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single instance | Nothing — it is the outage | Lowest | Development only |
| Multi-zone | A zone failing, an instance dying | Modest increase | Almost every business |
| Multi-region | An entire region failing | Roughly double | Regulated, or genuinely global |
| Multi-cloud | A provider failing | High, plus complexity | Very few — usually a mistake |
Where we run things.
Multi-zone as the default, multi-region only where the requirement is genuine.
CDN and caching — usually cheaper and faster than scaling servers.
Payment switch infrastructure, where an outage is not a minor inconvenience.
When to look at this.
One server runs everything
Common, and it works until the day it does not.
The bill keeps rising
Usually accumulated waste rather than one decision. Often reducible substantially.
You are expecting real growth
A campaign or a large customer. Better to design before the traffic than during it.
Not to be cloud-native for its own sake
If a simple setup serves you well, we will say leave it. Complexity has a running cost.
How we work.
We look at what you run
Current setup, current bill, and what actually happens when something fails.
We ask what downtime costs
That number decides how much redundancy is worth buying. Without it we would be guessing.
We design to that
Usually multi-zone. Sometimes the honest answer is that your current setup is adequate.
We write it as code
Reproducible and reviewable, rather than configured by hand and undocumented.
We migrate gradually
Both running, traffic shifting, with a way back at every point.
We set up cost alerts
So the next surprise is caught in week one.
Frequently asked.
5 questions answered. Still have one? Reach out.
Almost certainly not. Multi-zone protects against the failures that actually happen — a zone having trouble, an instance dying — for a modest increase. Multi-region roughly doubles cost and complexity to protect against an entire region failing, which is rare. It is worth it for regulated workloads or genuinely global products, and rarely otherwise.