Application Hosting
Application infrastructure engineered for what your business depends on.
Custom production environments for enterprise and business-critical applications — designed around each application's architecture and operated by engineers accountable for its availability.
Business context
Revenue, patient care, operations and customer trust increasingly run through a small number of applications.
When those applications slow down or go offline, the impact is felt across the organization within minutes. Yet the infrastructure beneath them is often treated as a commodity — sized once, rarely tuned, and supported by whoever is on call.
Application Hosting is built for the opposite assumption: that the environment underneath an important application deserves the same engineering attention as the application itself.
Positioning
This is not web hosting
Commodity hosting sells capacity. We take responsibility for how an application runs in production.
| Area | Commodity hosting | Application Hosting |
|---|---|---|
| Environment | Standard plans and fixed configurations | Architecture designed around the application's dependencies and load profile |
| Availability | Single-instance defaults | Redundancy and failover engineered to agreed recovery objectives |
| Databases | Self-managed | Managed database infrastructure, replication and tuning |
| Operations | Ticket queue | A named engineering team that knows the application in production |
| Change | Customer responsibility | Planned, tested and documented change management |
The challenge
Where application environments tend to fail
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Single points of failure
Databases, load balancers or integrations with no redundancy — often discovered during an incident.
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02
Performance under load
Environments sized for average demand that degrade during peaks, releases or batch cycles.
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03
Limited production insight
Monitoring that confirms a server is running but not whether the application is healthy.
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04
Operational key-person risk
Critical knowledge about the environment held by one or two individuals.
Environment architecture
Engineered in tiers, operated as one service
Each environment is designed from the edge to the data layer, with redundancy where the application needs it and observability at every tier. Recovery environments are part of the design, not an afterthought.
- AEdge
- Traffic management, TLS termination and web application protection.
- BApplication
- Horizontally scalable application tiers across failure domains.
- CData
- Primary and replica databases with managed failover and point-in-time recovery.
- DRecovery
- A standby environment in a separate location with documented recovery procedures.
Capabilities
Everything an important application needs in production
Custom application environments
Environments built to the application's architecture, not a standard template.
Enterprise application hosting
Commercial and packaged enterprise applications with their specific platform requirements.
High availability
Redundant tiers, health-checked load balancing and automated failover.
Database infrastructure
Managed relational and non-relational databases, replication, maintenance and tuning.
Production operations
Incident response, patching, capacity planning and change management.
Monitoring
Infrastructure, service and application-level health monitoring with defined escalation.
Performance optimization
Profiling and tuning across compute, storage, caching and database layers.
Scaling
Planned and automated scaling for growth, seasonal demand and scheduled events.
Backup & disaster recovery
Application-consistent backups and recovery environments tested on a schedule.
Security
Hardened hosts, web application protection, secrets management and access control.
Operational model
A production partner, not a hosting provider
We work with your application owners and development teams to keep releases, capacity and incidents under control.
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Step 01
Application discovery
Architecture, dependencies, load patterns and recovery requirements documented.
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Step 02
Environment design
Tiers, redundancy, scaling and monitoring designed around those findings.
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Step 03
Build & validate
Environments built through code and load-tested before production traffic.
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Step 04
Run in production
Monitoring, incident response and change management by a named team.
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Step 05
Review & tune
Regular performance, capacity and resilience reviews with application owners.
Security
Protected at every layer of the stack
Security controls are applied from the network edge to the database, and maintained through patching, vulnerability management and monitoring as part of day-to-day operations.
Explore Cyber Security- Web application and API protection
- Host hardening and patch management
- Secrets and certificate management
- Role-based administrative access with audit trails
- Encrypted, access-controlled backups
Typical use cases
Where organizations typically start
- 01 Customer-facing platforms Portals, commerce and service applications where availability directly affects revenue and reputation.
- 02 Packaged enterprise applications ERP, CRM and line-of-business systems with demanding platform and licensing requirements.
- 03 Internally developed applications Custom software that needs production-grade infrastructure without an in-house operations team.
- 04 Seasonal and event-driven demand Applications with predictable peaks that require planned capacity and scaling.
Business outcomes
What changes for your organization
- Higher availability
- Redundancy and failover designed to the recovery objectives the business needs.
- Consistent performance
- Environments tuned to real application behavior, including peak periods.
- Reduced operational risk
- Documented, team-held knowledge replaces individual dependency.
- More time for development
- Engineering teams focus on the application, not the platform beneath it.
Industries
Application Hosting across industries
- RetailHigh-availability commerce and store infrastructure engineered for peak demand.
- HealthcareAvailable, protected infrastructure for clinical, operational and patient-facing systems.
- TechnologyPlatform engineering and production infrastructure for software and technology companies.
- EducationModern, secure and cost-conscious infrastructure for institutions with changing demand.
Related capabilities
Let’s talk about your environment.
Tell us what you are operating today, what needs to change, and where your organization is heading. Our team can help identify the right architecture and next steps.