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DevOps and hosting
DevOps and hosting from Hot Rocket Software, a team of software, website and digital marketing specialists based in the UK, with 19 years in IT. Deployment pipelines, hosting, backups and monitoring set up properly: UK hosting options, infrastructure as code and no lock-in to one provider.
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What is devOps and hosting?
DevOps is the plumbing that gets code from a developer's laptop to your users safely: automated tests, deployment pipelines, hosting, backups, monitoring and security. We set it up so releases are routine and reversible, hosting is documented, and you are not locked into one cloud provider.
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Who is it for?
- Teams deploying by hand, or afraid to deploy on a Friday
- Businesses with hosting nobody fully understands
- Products that need UK data residency or a self-hosted option
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From a small business to a large organisation
The same team takes on a single tool for a small business and long-running work for large companies and the public sector. Here is what each end looks like.
For a small business
Reliable hosting for your website or app, with backups and someone watching it.
For large companies and the public sector
Cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines and monitoring for systems that cannot go down, including in your own cloud accounts.
- Cloud migration
- Infrastructure as code
- Monitoring and incident response
- Cost and security reviews
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What you get
- 01CI/CD pipelines with tests on every change
- 02Infrastructure documented and, where it helps, defined as code
- 03Backups with tested restores
- 04Monitoring, logging and alerting
- 05Hosting in UK data centres or on your own servers
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How we approach it
Audit
How deploys work today, and what would happen if a server died.
Design
Hosting, pipeline and backup plan, with costs.
Build
Pipelines, environments, monitoring.
Migrate
Move with a rollback plan and minimal downtime.
Run
Ongoing patching and capacity checks.
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Typical stack
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Questions
Cloud or VPS?
For many business apps, a well-run VPS or two is cheaper and simpler than a large cloud setup. We recommend cloud services where they genuinely save effort.
Can you host it in the UK?
Yes. We can host in UK data centres where data residency matters.
Will we be locked in to you?
No. Everything is documented and lives in accounts you own.
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Talk it through with us
A free 30-minute first chat, with no obligation. Tell us what is getting in the way; we tell you honestly what we would do, roughly what it would take, and whether it is worth doing at all.