Elastic compute, a whole machine for heavy workloads, a tuned platform for online retail, inexpensive space for copies and long-term records, and mailboxes for everyone in the company.
A good fit for inventory software, SQL workloads or terminal servers for staff when demand varies: scaled up ahead of year-end closing, trimmed back afterwards.
For large ERP databases, warehouse management or round-the-clock jobs that cannot share hardware with neighbours. Physical parts are the facility's job; operating system and above are ours.
For Shopware, WooCommerce, Magento or your own web application that must not buckle on Black Friday or during Advent, and whose marketplace feeds have to run without hiccups.
When backups need to live off-site, the receipt archive keeps growing or an application needs somewhere to put files. Deletion locks stop ransomware from wiping your copies.
When mailboxes still sit with the domain registrar, calendars refuse to sync or your quotes land in junk folders. Usually Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, with sender authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) configured.
The purchase price is merely the first line of the calculation. Look at three to five years and include the items no hardware quote ever lists.
Option 1
Server on your premises
You own the machine, and with it every chore that comes along.
Option 2
Server in a data centre
Hardware, electricity and cooling are bundled into one monthly charge.
Rule of thumb
Which fits you
Weigh the total cost over several years, not the sticker price of a box.
Signing up with a cloud provider has GDPR consequences, so read before you click. Legally, responsibility for the data stays with your business, while the hosting company processes it on your behalf. That means the processing contract, the physical location and every subcontractor the provider uses must be clear before a single file moves. We go through that paperwork and hand you the entries for your processing register. Medical practices take note: patient information counts as a special category under Article 9 GDPR, demands tougher safeguards and may make a formal impact assessment (DSFA) necessary.
The plan is built so nobody stares at a blank screen. The switchover itself generally takes a few hours, and the old environment stays available as a safety net.
We measure real usage and hunt for tripwires: a licence tied to a USB dongle, the DPD label printer attached to one particular PC, a scanner that files PDFs on one workstation, nightly copies written to a USB disk plugged into the server. Far better to spot these now than on the first Monday after go-live.
The machine at your chosen provider is set up and loaded with data. Two or three colleagues trial it for real while everyone else carries on in the familiar system without noticing.
On Friday evening or over the weekend we run the last sync, repoint DNS and adjust shortcuts on every PC. For several days afterwards the previous machine stays powered on, ready if we need to roll back.
Throughout the first weeks we watch utilisation and resize, more often smaller than bigger. Then regular operations take over and the former server can finally be switched off.
Yes. Exoscale operates a site in Vienna, and Anexia is an Austrian provider running its own data centres. If nothing obliges you to stay in the country, other EU locations are an option and frequently cheaper, Hetzner's facilities in Germany or Finland for example. Whichever you choose, we record the location in writing so it can be shown to clients or whoever handles data protection in your firm.
In principle yes, provided it is done carefully. Health information enjoys special protection under the GDPR and requires encryption, strict permissions, an audit trail of every look-up and a hosting partner able to give adequate assurances. Electronic transmission is additionally governed by Austria's Health Telematics Act. Many practice management systems already come as cloud editions. Where yours still needs a dedicated server, we set it up in a properly secured environment and help with the impact assessment should one be required.
Electricity, connectivity and the physical box are the host's concern. From the OS upwards it is ours: updates, settings, backup jobs, monitoring and alert handling. You can cover this with the Start plan (from €890 a month plus VAT), with Business or Premium, or pay €110 plus VAT per hour worked. Nobody needs to travel for any of it.
Yes, that is one of the most frequent uses. Austria's Federal Fiscal Code requires books and records to be kept for seven years and to remain readable throughout. S3 storage with object lock prevents files from being deleted or altered before that period ends, whether by accident or by malware. We also make sure the file formats will still open years from now and that the folder structure lets your tax adviser find things.
Not necessarily. If demand barely changes and you already have a suitable room, owning hardware can compete across a five-year span. Renting wins when you are expanding, busy in some months and quiet in others, spread over several locations or largely working from home, since an upfront investment becomes a flexible monthly cost. Before you commit, we show you both sets of numbers.
No. Accounts and contracts are held by your company, and data is kept in portable formats. On request we hand over disk images, database exports and environment documentation so another team can take over or you can bring everything back in-house.
Tell us what should move: the shop, the inventory system, email or the archive. Within one working day you receive the resources required and a monthly fee plus VAT.
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