Backend & Cloud Engineering
Cloud Deployment & Hosting
Deploy properly: monitored, backed up, and inexpensive to run.
- Typical timeline
- 1-4 weeks depending on complexity
- Category
- Backend & Cloud Engineering
- Engagement
- Fixed-scope phases
- You receive
- Code, data & documentation
Overview
Deployment is where many projects quietly accumulate risk: manual releases, no monitoring, untested backups and bills nobody reviews. We set up infrastructure that is automated, observable and sized to what you actually use.
Deployment is manual, fragile and unmonitored
Releases happen by copying files to a server at night. There is no staging environment, so problems appear in production. Nothing alerts anyone when the application goes down — customers do. And the cloud bill has grown for reasons nobody has investigated.
You will recognise this if
- Deployments are done manually and are avoided because they are risky
- You learn about outages from customers rather than from monitoring
- There is no staging environment, so changes are tested in production
- The cloud bill keeps rising and nobody can explain which service is responsible
What you get out of it
The difference this makes
Releases become routine
Automated pipelines with staging and rollback turn deployment from a risky event into a routine, repeatable step.
You know before your customers do
Uptime monitoring, error tracking and alerting mean problems are detected and often fixed before anyone complains.
Costs you can explain
Right-sized resources, usage review and clear cost attribution, typically cutting bills materially on first review.
Recovery you have practised
Infrastructure defined as code and tested backups mean the environment can be rebuilt predictably rather than improvised.
What we build
- Cloud architecture design sized to actual expected load
- Infrastructure as code with Terraform for reproducible environments
- CI/CD pipelines with automated tests, staging deployment and rollback
- Containerised deployment with health checks and zero-downtime releases
- SSL certificates with automatic renewal, plus CDN and caching configuration
- Managed or self-hosted database setup with automated, verified backups
- Monitoring, log aggregation, error tracking and alerting to WhatsApp or email
- Secrets management with no credentials in source code
- Security configuration: firewall rules, least-privilege IAM, patching
- Cost review with right-sizing and reserved capacity recommendations
- Runbook documentation for common operational tasks
How it gets used
A business moving off shared hosting
Migration to a properly configured cloud environment with staging, backups, monitoring and automated deployment.
A team with no deployment automation
A CI/CD pipeline that tests and deploys on merge, removing manual release steps and the errors that come with them.
A company with an unexplained cloud bill
A cost audit identifying idle resources, oversized instances and unnecessary data transfer, followed by right-sizing.
Technology we typically use
You do not need to care about this list — but your next developer will.
- Cloudflare Pages & Workers
- AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront)
- DigitalOcean
- Docker
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
- Prometheus / Grafana
Timeline: Typically 1-4 weeks depending on complexity
Questions
Cloud Deployment & Hosting — common questions
Something else on your mind? Ask us directly — it is usually faster than reading.
Which cloud provider should we use?
What will hosting cost each month?
Can you deploy to our existing cloud account?
Related services
Businesses that need this often need one of these as well.
Thinking about cloud deployment & hosting?
Tell us about your situation. We will tell you whether this is the right service, what it would involve, and roughly what it would cost.