06 · Infrastructure
Home · Server and Cloud
Server or cloud?
Change and improvement — and an honest answer to a question that has no blanket answer.
- Own server
- Scalability, full control
- Cloud
- Low entry cost, pay per seat
- Hybrid
- Often the most honest answer
- Always
- Backup and resilience
- Optional
- Disaster recovery plan
- Afterwards
- Setup and support
Server or cloud
What should you take?
There is no blanket answer. Every scenario has clear advantages and equally clear drawbacks — sometimes everything points to your own server, sometimes to the cloud.
Your own server often pays off long term, especially if you plan to grow. The cloud costs per seat and month — that hurts less at the start but adds up over the years. Which sum works out for you depends on your numbers.
We tell you which products come into question and set them up. After that we keep supporting them if you want. To Managed Support
Properly secured
We secure your work.
We look very closely at backups. Not at whether one exists — at whether it can actually be restored .
Whatever you plan and however sensitive your data is: it has to be backed up. We are also glad to design workflows that need to run doubly secured.
Every concept comes with an optional Disaster recovery plan. Then everyone knows what to do in an emergency — own server or cloud, it makes no difference.
Apple macOS, Linux, Windows
Time warp.
Do not worry, we are not putting on a show. We just want to make the case for backing up the client machines too.
“The data is all on the server anyway.” “I have it in my mailbox.” Everyone knows those. It may well be the employee’s responsibility — but whose money is gone?
Back up client data too, and you really do cover every scenario. On to the IT Concept or to Mail and Calendar.
Frequently asked
Answered briefly.
Which should you take — server or cloud?
There is no blanket answer. Every scenario has clear advantages and equally clear drawbacks; which one adds up depends on your figures.
Is it enough that a backup exists?
No. What matters is that it can be restored. That is exactly what we look at.
Do client machines need backing up too?
Yes. “The data is all on the server anyway” does not cover every scenario.
Exclusive
Let us talk about your data.
Backup, resilience, disaster recovery — the three topics nobody should improvise. In the first talk we calculate both options against each other: with your figures, not with vendor brochures.