ERP and management software
Production and test instances, database, document storage, scheduled jobs, migration environments.
Vendors, developers, IT departments
Business application hosting
A business application does not always fit the mould of standard hosting. At D&D, the environment is built for the application — not the other way round.
What we host
Examples of application families, with no client references: our clients are not sales arguments.
SaaS platforms
Multi-tenant applications, with the corresponding development, staging and production environments.
Business web applications
Internal applications, extranets, portals, custom-built management tools.
APIs and services
Exposed services, processing queues, background jobs, integrations between systems.
Databases
PostgreSQL, MariaDB/MySQL and other engines, on machines sized for the database workload rather than for a fleet average.
Specific environments
Particular versions of a language or library, system dependencies, network configuration specific to the application.
How a hosting project runs
The exact sequence depends on the project, but the outline is nearly always this one.
We look at the application
What it runs, what it needs, what brings it down. Actual load, peaks, data volume, dependencies, availability requirements.
We propose an architecture
Number and size of machines, separation of application and database, test environments, backup strategy, replication where it is justified.
We set it up
Creating and sizing the machines, operating system, preparing the environment, putting backups in place.
We migrate, when there is something to migrate
Takeover from your current provider or from your own infrastructure, with a planned cutover and a way back.
We operate
System, system updates, backups, restorations, infrastructure monitoring. You keep control of the application, unless agreed otherwise.
How responsibilities are split
It is written down at the start, because that is what prevents unpleasant surprises on the day something breaks.
D&D
- Infrastructure, machines and storage
- Operating system and its updates
- Backups and restorations
- Infrastructure monitoring
- Production, test and staging environments
- Technical migration from the existing hosting
You, your software vendor or your integrator
- The application itself and its code
- Its functional configuration
- Its application updates
- The business data it holds
- Support to end users
If you would like to entrust us with more — advanced systems administration, application operations — that is a separate agreement, and it is discussed beforehand, not afterwards.
Pricing
Configuration to match your requirements.
Application hosting is priced from the architecture agreed: number and size of machines, additional environments, backup strategy, replication where applicable.
See also
Let’s talk about your application
What it does, what it consumes, what worries you. We will tell you what we would do.