We handle
- Inventory, planning, rehearsal, cutover, and verification
- DNS, certificate, and mail authentication transitions
- Data migration with a documented consistency point
- The written completion report and post-cutover support
One-time
Migration Engagement
Move off the old host without a weekend of guessing.
What this tier is
Migrations go wrong at the boundaries: a DNS TTL nobody lowered, a database dump taken before the last order, a certificate that only existed on the old host. We work through those boundaries as an inventory before touching anything, and we rehearse the cutover on staging.
The engagement has a written scope with an explicit list of what is included and what is not. You get a rollback position documented before the cutover window opens, so the decision to abort is a decision rather than a panic.
Specification
| Scope | One estate: sites, applications, databases, mail, and DNS |
|---|---|
| Phases | Inventory, plan, rehearse, cut over, verify |
| Rehearsal | Full cutover rehearsal on staging |
| Rollback | Documented position before the window opens |
| Deliverable | Runbook plus written completion report |
| Support | Two weeks post-cutover included |
| Billing | One-time fixed fee for the agreed scope |
What is included
- Inventory of sites, applications, databases, mail, DNS, and certificates
- Written migration plan with a cutover runbook and a rollback position
- Rehearsal on staging infrastructure before the real cutover
- Cutover executed in an agreed window, with verification checks
- DNS TTL management before and after the move
- Post-migration verification and a written completion report
- Two weeks of post-cutover support included
Typical use cases
- Leaving a hosting provider that is being acquired, degraded, or repriced
- Consolidating infrastructure inherited from a departed contractor
- Moving off a legacy server nobody is willing to reboot
- Bringing a scattered estate onto one operator
Responsibility split
Written down so there is no argument about it later.
You handle
- Access to the current provider, registrar, and any third-party services
- Approving the cutover window and being reachable during it
- Deciding what does not need to come with you
How provisioning works
Scheduled after a scoping conversation. The listed fee covers a typical single estate migration; anything materially larger is quoted before payment rather than invoiced afterwards. We will tell you if your migration is larger than this engagement covers.
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Advisory Block
Five hours of engineering time against a problem you name.
$375 one-time
- Five hours, scheduled with you, against a problem you define
- Written findings and recommendations, not just a conversation
- No obligation to buy hosting afterwards
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Ongoing operations for infrastructure you own, on a monthly retainer.
$280 /mo
- Covers your infrastructure, not only workloads hosted with us
- Monthly patching, change execution, and a written change record
- Named contact with agreed response expectations
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Background reading
- Small host, big context Continuity of context, real change control, and honest diagnosis.
- English-speaking teams, anywhere on the clock Asynchronous updates, clear handoffs, and scheduled windows.