Cost

Five providers and nobody knows what you pay

Hosting here, domains there, backups somewhere else, and an invoice arriving from a service nobody recognises.

Does this sound familiar?

Nobody chooses vendor sprawl. It accumulates one urgent decision at a time, and by the time it is a problem it looks like normality.

  • Infrastructure spend is spread across several cards and one personal account
  • At least one subscription is for something nobody can identify
  • Renewal dates are unknown until a payment fails
  • When something breaks, each provider confirms their part is fine

What we do, in order

Roughly the first week. The sequence matters more than the speed.

1

We audit what you actually pay

Every provider, every renewal date, every amount, on one page. This alone usually finds something: a duplicate service, an oversized server, or a subscription still billing for a project that ended.

2

We tell you what to cancel

Including things you do not need us for. If a provider is doing a good job at a fair price, keeping them is the right answer and we will say so.

3

We consolidate what is left

Servers, domains, certificates, backups, storage, mail and monitoring move onto one plan with one invoice and one renewal date.

4

You see the whole estate in one place

Every domain and certificate with its real expiry date, read from the server rather than from what somebody recorded at setup.

The cost that is not on the invoices

The subscriptions are the visible half. The other half is the time spent chasing which provider owns a problem, and the renewals that lapse because they belonged to nobody in particular.

Common questions

How much does it cost to run a small web application?

Bought separately, a server, managed database, backups, object storage, domain, transactional email and uptime monitoring typically come to $70–90 a month. The larger cost is usually the time someone spends keeping them working, which never appears on an invoice.

Is bundling infrastructure actually cheaper than buying it separately?

Generally yes, because the provider buys capacity at scale — but the bigger saving is the work. Consolidation also removes the failure mode where a renewal lapses because it belonged to nobody in particular.

We do not know what we are paying for. Where do we start?

With an audit: every provider, every renewal date, every amount on one page. Card statements are the fastest route, since forgotten subscriptions rarely send invoices anyone reads.

What if some of our current providers are fine?

Then keep them. Consolidation is worth doing where it removes work or risk, not as an end in itself. We will say plainly which of your existing vendors we would leave alone.

Send us your current invoices. We will show you the consolidated figure and what we would cancel outright.

Other situations we take on