Infrastructure & tooling
Review the tools and infrastructure your business pays for.
We assess hosting, development tools and recurring software costs across the business. Each recommendation accounts for the work a tool does, the people who depend on it and the effort of changing it.
Make the next renewal a decision
A subscription may have started with one project and become part of several others. Replacing it can affect accounts, data, deployment and the people who operate it. The renewal price is only part of the decision.
We bring together the available bills, owners and dependencies, then compare keeping, removing or replacing each material item. For a review limited to a public website, use the website cost and performance service.
Hosting, software and team tools
Hosting and delivery
VPS capacity, managed platforms and CDN services compared with the workloads they support.
Source control and deployment
Repository hosting, CI and release processes, including the work required to operate them.
Managed or self-hosted software
Compare subscription fees with installation, updates, recovery and the capacity to run the alternative.
Backups and monitoring
Review the systems covered, recovery checks, alerts and the people responsible for responding.
Scheduled work and integrations
Identify recurring jobs and the tools needed to keep them running.
Collaboration and licences
Check access, usage and renewals across the tools the team works with.
Compare the cost of keeping and changing
A replacement needs to do the required work, be operable by your team and justify its switching cost. We include those constraints in the recommendation.
Our Raspberry Pi server tuning report illustrates the value of measuring an existing system before changing it. The work was on our own development server, with results and limitations recorded.
Current commitments
Identify owners, renewal dates and known dependencies from the information available.
Operating responsibility
Name the maintenance and recovery work that a replacement would leave with your team.
A costed change
Compare migration effort and risk with the recurring cost being addressed.
What the review produces
What should be included in the initial list?
Hosting, domains, source control, deployment, monitoring, backup, collaboration, automation and recurring software bills. Card statements and identity-provider application lists often reveal tools the team no longer remembers.
Do you always recommend open source?
No. Open source is useful when ownership and operating capacity justify it. A managed service can be the smaller and safer choice once maintenance and recovery are included.
How are changes prioritised?
By recurring cost, operational risk, migration effort, reversibility and the number of people affected. A nominal saving is not useful if the move costs more than it returns.
What do we receive?
An inventory with owners and renewal information where available, plus a keep, remove, consolidate or investigate recommendation for each material item.
Bring us the tools you want to review.
A list of services, their purpose and the available bills is enough to begin scoping the work.