A file server tucked into a cupboard beside the meter box. An online shop still riding the least expensive mutualised plan on the market. Mailboxes left with whoever registered the domain name twelve years back. Plenty of French firms are built exactly that way, and the arrangement holds up beautifully right until the Friday night a disk gives out. Our job is to lift those pieces into facilities located within the Union and then operate them for you at arm's length. We work with OVHcloud, Scaleway, Outscale and Clever Cloud, and with Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace where mail is concerned.
They combine according to what you genuinely need: a machine for business software, reserved hardware once the load demands it, an environment built around shops, room for archives, and mail for everybody on the payroll.
Reserved cores, memory and disk carved out for your accounting package, a database engine or a set of published desktops. Extra processor goes on ahead of the annual close and comes off again once the busy fortnight has passed.
A whole physical machine, with no neighbour taking the disk bandwidth. The right answer for large business databases and jobs that run from morning to night. The provider swaps the parts, we hold everything else.
An environment tuned for PrestaShop, WooCommerce, Magento or Bitrix24 installed on your own machine: supported versions, caching, scheduled jobs that do not die halfway through an import, frequent backups.
Space metered by the gigabyte, used for copies, long-term archives and whatever files your applications generate. The contents live off your network and can be locked, putting them out of reach of ransomware.
Addresses carrying the company name, calendars the team can all see, contacts synced to the handset, usually on Microsoft 365 or on Google Workspace. The DNS side is set correctly so quotations land in the inbox.
The purchase price is only the first line. Compare over three years, adding everything that never appears on the hardware supplier quotation.
Option 1
A server at your place
You own the box; every chore that surrounds it is yours too.
Option 2
A machine at a hosting facility
Kit, electricity and cooling arrive included; what you settle is a subscription.
How to decide
What suits you
Price up three years with the surrounding expenses in, not the invoice for the box alone.
The processing agreement with the provider protects you first of all. Under the GDPR the controller is still your business, while the facility is only a processor. Before any migration we read through the processing terms, the stated region and the roster of sub-processors, then hand you the wording to enter in your register of processing activities. As soon as health data enters the picture the provider has to hold HDS certification; some sensitive public contracts additionally call for a SecNumCloud qualified offering.
The schedule is built so that nobody sits waiting in front of a dead screen. Switching over rarely takes long, and the previous environment stays available as a fallback.
We measure actual consumption and hunt for the traps: a licence tied to a hardware key, a label printer driven from one workstation, scans dropped onto a local share, a backup writing to a disk plugged in behind the server. Much better discovered today than at eight o'clock on a Monday.
The machine is created at the chosen provider, data is copied across, then a couple of colleagues put it to real use while everybody else stays on the existing system with their habits untouched.
One last synchronisation, new DNS records and fresh shortcuts on the desktops, done late on a weekday or across a Saturday. We leave the previous machine powered up for several days, so that reversing course remains possible.
We follow the load over the opening weeks and adjust the size, usually downwards. The environment then passes into routine running and your ageing hardware can be unplugged for good.
In a data centre inside the European Union, and most often in France. OVHcloud, Scaleway, Outscale and Clever Cloud all state the region chosen, and we write that location into the documentation you give your customers or your data protection officer. Where a specification requires one particular region, we confirm it is available before ordering anything at all.
Yes, but only with an HDS-certified provider. A medical practice, an imaging centre or a software house handling patient files cannot make do with a general purpose offering, European or otherwise. In that case we select a certified offering and build on top of it. The certification belongs to the provider: we never claim it as ours.
Electricity, networking and physical kit are the provider responsibility. Anything happening within the operating system belongs to us: updates, settings, copies, supervision, reacting to alerts. That sits either in a Start, Business or Premium plan, or at EUR 95/hour excl. VAT for time spent. Not one of those tasks obliges anybody to visit your premises.
No. With a steady load and a decent technical room, bought hardware can stay competitive over five years. Renting pulls ahead as soon as there is growth, seasonal peaks, several sites or remote working, because it turns an investment into an adjustable monthly cost. We cost both cases before you sign anything.
Yes. Every account and every contract is registered to your business rather than to ours, and we hold data in formats that travel. On request we supply disk images, database exports and the environment documentation, enough to pass the work to another firm or pull the whole thing back onto your own premises.
Tell us what has to move: the shop, the business software, the email or your archives. We reply within one working day with the resources required and a monthly price excl. VAT.
Message received
An answer follows inside one working day. Report an outage that is stopping people working and it moves ahead of everything else.
Nothing here under that name. Check the spelling, or simply choose the nearest large city instead. Since every engagement runs remotely, whichever you pick changes nothing about what we do for you.
