Deployments that are small, cheap and unremarkable to run, because infrastructure should be the least interesting part of your system.
Book a consultationCloud makes it easy to provision considerably more than the workload requires, and easy to keep paying for it indefinitely. A great many small business systems run on infrastructure sized for a scale the business will not reach for years, if ever.
The opposite failure is quieter: a deployment nobody can reproduce, where the server was configured by hand, the steps live in one person's memory, and rebuilding it after a failure would be an ordeal.
What the workload genuinely needs today, with a clear path to grow. Cheaper to start small and scale deliberately than to pay for headroom you never use.
Containerised and defined in configuration, so the environment can be rebuilt from scratch and arrive in the same state. No server that only one person understands.
Issued and renewed without anyone remembering to do it. Expired certificates are an avoidable and very public failure.
Build, test and deploy automatically on every change, with a smoke check afterwards. Releasing should not require a person following a checklist.
Real traffic, real data volumes, real availability requirements, rather than assumed ones.
What it needs, what that costs monthly, and what changes as it grows.
Containerise, define the environment in configuration, and prove it rebuilds.
Pipeline, smoke checks, and a documented way back if a deploy goes wrong.
The Samloryx platform runs on a deliberately modest AWS deployment: application, PostgreSQL and reverse proxy as containers, certificates issued automatically, and continuous deployment on every merge. The platform page sets out the whole arrangement.
Automated testing that tells you something true, on the paths where being wrong is expensive.
Web applications built to work on a mid-range phone on a bad connection, because that is how most South Africans will use them.
Used where it genuinely beats ordinary software, and not used where it does not.
A short call costs nothing and usually makes the answer obvious. If a different piece of work suits you better, we will say so.