In-house cloud
Infrastructure on hardware you own.
The systems your team runs on, in a rack you control. The whole stack: virtualization, storage, containers, identity, monitoring, backup, and the code that puts it back together if it ever needs to come apart.
Why in-house
One flat line, where your cloud bill used to grow.
Public cloud is the right answer for some teams. For others, the bill keeps going up while the workload doesn’t. The price you signed up for is not the price you pay this year.
In-house is a flat operational line: power, network, the occasional drive replacement. No per-seat licence increase, no egress surprise, no quarterly committed-spend uplift on next year’s renewal.
We design the cluster, install the stack, document what is where, and hand it over. Your team runs it. Or we keep running it for you. Either is fine.
The stack
Eight layers, properly.
We build with open-source components throughout. The names change with the job. The shape doesn’t.
- 01
Virtualization
A type-1 hypervisor pools the bare-metal servers in the rack into one cluster. Virtual machines and containers from the same web GUI. Live migration when a node needs to come down for maintenance. The foundation everything else sits on.
- 02
Distributed storage
Every drive on every node, pooled into one network-wide layer. If a node fails, the data is still there. The VMs keep running. Add a node, the storage grows with it.
- 03
Container orchestration
A platform for running modern apps as containers and microservices, with a web UI for managing clusters, users, and deployments. Engineers ship without having to ssh anywhere.
- 04
Networking, ingress, and remote access
A firewall for what comes in and out. A reverse proxy that routes incoming traffic to the right service and handles TLS automatically. A VPN or zero-trust layer so remote workers reach internal tools without exposing them to the open web.
- 05
Identity and single sign-on
One login for every internal app, with two-factor, connected to your existing directory. Employees stop juggling fifteen passwords. Offboarding is one click.
- 06
Observability
Metrics, logs, and dashboards in one pane of glass. Alerts in the channels you already use, before the user notices the problem. The whole stack visible.
- 07
Backup and disaster recovery
Deduplicated, incremental backups of every VM and container. Off-site copy. Tested restores. The bit you forget about until you need it, and then it is the only thing that matters.
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Automation and infrastructure as code
Servers, networks, and services declared in code, not clicked through menus. We hand you the code. The next install is a re-run, not a rebuild.
You get
- A virtualization cluster sized for your team
- Storage that survives a node failing
- A container platform your engineers can ship to without a ticket
- Identity, networking, and remote access wired in from day one
- Backups, monitoring, and the runbooks to keep them honest
- The infrastructure-as-code that put it all there, handed over with the keys
Where it fits
- A team whose cloud bill keeps growing while the workload doesn't
- A company with regulatory or sovereignty requirements that public cloud doesn't satisfy cleanly
- An engineering team that wants its own dev infrastructure, not a hosted SaaS for every layer
- A business with existing hardware that is doing nothing useful
Cloud bills add up. Sometimes a rack is the right answer. Sometimes it isn’t. We’ll tell you which.
Ready when you are
Talk to us about your infrastructure.
Bring your current bill. We’ll bring the rack diagram.
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