CHALLENGES

Problems you might be facing

Nobody knows who's actually responsible for the server

More common than it should be. Hosting arranged years ago by somebody who has since left, on a plan nobody has reviewed. When it breaks there's no owner, no SLA and no route to a fix.

Your application can't just be moved as it is

Migrating an older application isn't a copy and paste. Database versions, environment dependencies and configuration all need accounting for before anything moves, and getting it wrong means downtime.

You can't say for certain where your data sits

Where data lives matters for regulated businesses, public sector organisations and anyone handling personal data. Shared environments, servers outside the UK or EEA and loose access control create exposure that's easy to miss.

Performance problems are being managed rather than resolved

A slow or unreliable site is often an infrastructure problem as much as a code problem. When the hosting isn't matched to what's being asked of it, surface fixes don't hold.

Featured solution

A safe move to the cloud

Our client was running the business on a database sitting on a single onsite server, the kind of setup where one hardware failure takes everything with it.

They needed to move to the cloud safely, without losing data or disrupting the work that depended on it.

We migrated their data and system to cloud hosting, kept their existing database running exactly as it was, and handed it back working as before.

Andy has done some amazing work for us on our database, safely migrating our data from an onsite server to the cloud. Super efficient and pleasant to deal with. Without him we'd be stuck with our onsite server.

Outcome

  • Data safely off a vulnerable onsite server
  • Migrated to the cloud with no disruption
  • Existing MS Access database kept running as it was
  • Client able to wait to update database system when ready