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Linux VMs
Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, Rocky, and Alma, provisioned with your SSH keys at launch and cloud-init friendly. We can hand you root or manage the whole stack, depending on how much of the operating system you want to own.
Hosting · Virtual Machines
VMs sized to your workload.
Linux and Windows VMs sized to your workload and built to run for the long haul. Snapshots, room to grow, and dedicated-CPU options for the workloads that earn them.
What's included
Compute, when you need it.
Shared-CPU instances are fine for most jobs and cheaper for all of them. Dedicated cores are there for the ones that earn them. Either way, every VM lands on the same monitoring, patching, and backup discipline as the rest of your environment, so a virtual machine never becomes the box everyone forgot to maintain.
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Windows VMs
Windows Server 2022 and 2025 with Microsoft licensing rolled into the monthly rate. No capital outlay, no per-VM license to true-up at audit time, and no scramble to find proof of entitlement when a vendor asks.
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Snapshots + resize
Point-in-time snapshots before any risky change, and the ability to resize CPU, RAM, or disk without rebuilding from scratch. The machine grows with the workload instead of being replaced every time it outgrows its first guess.
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Dedicated CPU
Reserved cores for the workloads that can't tolerate noisy-neighbor jitter: production databases, real-time systems, build and render farms. You pay for guaranteed compute only where the application actually needs it.
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Patching + monitoring
OS and security patches tested and applied in agreed windows, with metrics and alerting on every instance. A VM that drifts out of date or runs hot is caught and handled before it turns into an incident or an open door.
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Backup + recovery
Scheduled image and file-level backups to off-host storage, with restores tested rather than assumed. Pair it with secure backup for ransomware-resistant copies the attacker can't reach from inside the VM.
Most of what you'd ever run on a server, fits on a VM.
The default assumption now is to virtualize, and for good reason. The economics work, because you size each machine to its job instead of buying a physical box rounded up to the next tier. The snapshot story works, because you can capture a known-good state in seconds before a migration or a patch. The recovery story works, because a VM is a file that can be restored to different hardware in minutes rather than a server rebuild that takes a weekend.
The exceptions are real but narrow: very high IOPS databases, latency-sensitive systems measured in microseconds, and compliance frameworks that require single-tenant separation. Those move to dedicated hardware, and we document why. Everything else gets designed around the workload it has to run, then placed on the same dashboard as the rest of your stack, so the fleet stays visible instead of sprawling into shadow IT.
We needed a Windows box for a vendor app that went end-of-life in 2018. It was running, patched, and monitored that afternoon.
How it works
From sizing question to running fleet.
A VM is easy to spin up and easy to mis-size. We start from the workload and work backward to the spec, so the first guess is close and the bill isn't padded.
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Size
We look at what the workload actually does (CPU pattern, memory ceiling, disk I/O, peak versus average) and spec the VM to that, not to a marketing tier. Shared by default, dedicated where the numbers justify it.
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Build
The machine is provisioned with your keys or identity, hardened to a baseline, licensed where needed, and joined to monitoring and backups before a single production byte lands on it.
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Migrate
Moving an existing server in? We lift it with a snapshot or a clean rebuild, test it beside the original, then cut over on your schedule with the old machine kept warm as a fallback.
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Operate
From there it's steady state: patches in windows, snapshots before changes, resize as the workload grows, and a quarterly look at whether each VM is still the right size or quietly oversized.
Who it's for.
Virtual machines fit businesses that need real compute they control without buying, racking, and babysitting physical servers. That includes the company running a line-of-business application its vendor only supports on Windows Server, the team that needs a Linux host for an internal tool or database, the practice consolidating a closet full of aging hardware into a clean virtual fleet, and the organization that wants a development or staging environment that mirrors production. If you are weighing whether to refresh an on-premise server or move it to managed virtual infrastructure, or if you already have VMs scattered across providers with nobody owning the patching and backups, this brings them onto one platform with one operations team. It sits naturally alongside server management for the runbook discipline and hosted SQL Server for the database tier those VMs usually talk to.
Questions
Common questions about virtual machines.
What's the difference between a VM and a dedicated server?
A virtual machine shares physical hardware with other tenants under a hypervisor, which makes it cheaper, faster to provision, and trivial to snapshot or resize. A dedicated server is a whole physical box reserved for you. VMs handle most workloads well. Dedicated wins only for very high I/O, microsecond latency, or compliance rules that demand single-tenant hardware.
Is Microsoft Windows licensing included?
Yes. Windows Server licensing is built into the monthly rate for our Windows VMs, so there's no capital purchase and no per-VM license to track or prove at audit time. You get the same Windows Server you'd buy retail, billed per month, which keeps the math simple when you add or remove machines.
Can you resize a VM after it's running?
Yes. CPU, RAM, and disk can be scaled up as the workload grows, usually with a brief reboot rather than a rebuild, and disk can often grow with no downtime at all. Because we right-size at the start and review periodically, most clients adjust occasionally rather than constantly, but the headroom is there when a busy season or a new feature needs it.
What happens to my VM if hardware fails?
A virtual machine isn't tied to one physical box. If a host has trouble, the VM can be restarted on healthy hardware, and we keep off-host backups and snapshots to restore from if needed. For workloads that can't tolerate any interruption, we can build high availability across hosts so a single failure is invisible to your users.
Can you migrate our existing servers to VMs?
Yes, that's a common project. We assess the current servers, build matching VMs, copy the workload via snapshot or clean install, and test the result beside the original before cutting over on your schedule. The old machine stays available as a fallback until you're satisfied. Most migrations finish with little or no user-facing downtime.
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