The Right Foundation for Every Application
Infrastructure for Managed Open-Source Applications
We do not operate our own data center – and that is intentional. Instead, we lease capacity from several established infrastructure providers in Europe and choose the foundation that best suits each application. This allows you to benefit from the strengths of various platforms without having to worry about contracts, servers, or networks: operation, updates, and support all come from a single source.
Multiple Providers, One Point of Contact
We do not have expensive hardware sitting in a basement that needs to pay for itself – and therefore, we have no reason to place your application on a specific server just because it is already there. We lease capacity where it currently offers the best balance of price and quality for your application: affordable, yet with providers offering solid technology and certified data centers.
No single provider is the best for everything. One may excel in flexible cloud solutions, while another is stronger in dedicated hardware or a secure private cloud. Because we are not tied to any single provider, we weigh price, performance, and security for each application individually. If an offering becomes more expensive or lower in quality, we migrate – without you even noticing.
You also benefit from this: no vendor lock-in. Your application is not dependent on a specific data center or a proprietary platform; instead, it runs as open source on standard infrastructure – and can be moved at any time.
Currently, we primarily rely on OVHcloud and Hetzner.
Our Infrastructures
OpenStack – Public Cloud. Virtual servers on the open cloud platform OpenStack. Your application receives its own guaranteed resources (CPU, RAM, storage), which can be quickly scaled up if needed. The flexible standard choice for most managed applications.
VMware vSphere – Private Cloud. Virtualization on hardware reserved exclusively for us. You do not share resources with any other customers of the provider, and the network and storage are isolated. The right choice when isolation, predictable performance, or specific compliance requirements are the priority.
Dedicated Server – Bare Metal. Physical servers without a virtualization layer. The full performance of the hardware is available to a single application – ideal for consistently high, steady resource requirements, such as for large databases or compute-intensive services.
Shared Hosting. Multiple websites and applications share a jointly managed environment – the economical solution for moderate requirements. Even here, there is no low-end infrastructure: depending on the environment, our shared hosting runs on OpenStack, dedicated bare-metal hardware, or VMware.
Complex Environments on Request
Some projects require more than a single server. For these, we assemble customized environments:
- Clusters – multiple servers that share the workload or provide mutual backup, for example for
high availability, load balancing, or replicated databases. - Kubernetes – container orchestration for applications consisting of many services or
those that need to scale automatically based on load.
Contact us – we will plan the environment with you and subsequently handle the operations.
Data Centers and Security
All providers operate their data centers in Europe and work according to ISO 27001; the private cloud at OVHcloud additionally complies with SOC 1 and SOC 2. Your data does not leave the EU.
Which Foundation is Right?
On every application page, you can see which infrastructure the individual plans run on. If
none of them fit your requirements, we will find the right foundation together.
The right infrastructure for every application – selected by us, managed by us.