One of my new businesses is focused around hosting of business applications. While I have not been involved with MV for a while now, I would enjoy regular interaction with MV clients in this environment.
We run multiple servers in a data center. This is just like AWS. I prefer DreamHost and have based everything there, though could as easily have built the exact same topology over Digital Ocean. We run a lot of LAMP websites over servers, spinning up new servers as required. Almost every site has a WordPress installation and I've established creds in that industry much like in this one. We run our own DNS, and administer security at the network level, server level, and application level. We also run our own email servers. In summary, when I get some marketing going, the offering will include full hosting for websites plus email plus other application servers, all with one vendor. This also makes communications very elegant, for example, there's no latency between an ECommerce website and the MV system that integrates with it.
As far as pricing, I don't have anything established yet - let's talk. At this time the plan is to offer everything ala-carte on a yearly schedule. So for example, these optional services would all be itemized separately:
- Server at cost-plus, including CPU, memory, and disk
- OS hosting and maintenance as a service, including security and backups
- MV administration, backups, users, performance, etc
- MV VAR services with Rocket, in partnership with application developers
- MV consultation
- domain hosting, includes DNS, certs, DB, some security, some monitoring
- WordPress site administration
- WordPress development
- Hosting/management for wiki, issue tracker, support desk, and a few other business apps
- Communications development to integrate anything to anything else
- Discord server maintenance and integrations with MV
- Email with pricing based on volume, not domain - includes spam management, collaboration
- Minecraft hosting ... yeah, we're doing that too. ;)
What does have me concerned is the situation with CentOS, D3 OS requirements, etc. This can affect my costs, as I can support the environment but at this moment we're running 100% Ubuntu, and there could be some cross-environment details that would need to be tweaked for smooth integration.
So ... it can't hurt to talk!
For now, email me at the old and familiar TG@
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