We operate what we build

Managed hosting on our own virtual servers in Switzerland and long-term platform operations with DevOps, monitoring and ongoing development. The same team carries responsibility throughout.

Discuss your project Our foundation

Starting point

Hosting and operations in Switzerland

A platform needs a stable foundation and lasting attention. We host it on our own servers in a Virtual Data Center in Switzerland and operate it for years.

A release pipeline: build, tests and staging are complete, delivery to production is running.

DevOps & CI/CD

Automated deployment pipelines instead of manual releases. Every platform runs in reproducible Docker containers: consistent environments from development to production. Changes and further development go live tested and traceable.

Three virtual servers in the Virtual Data Center in Switzerland, all running, with their load. Plus the note ISO 27001.

Managed hosting

Our own Virtual Data Center at hosttech GmbH, ISO 27001 certified at Swiss locations. We set up, secure and operate network, storage and containers ourselves. No shared hosting, no dependence on hyperscalers.

The response time over one hour with a spike above the threshold. The on-call team was alerted automatically.

Monitoring & observability

Jira Service Management for incident management, Sentry for error tracking, Blackfire for performance analysis. The platform is monitored around the clock: when something looks unusual, the system raises the alarm automatically so that we can fix problems, where possible, before they affect your users.

Standardisierter Releaseprozess

$ deploy cloudtec/project production
✓ Server-Version   cloudtec/image:v6
✓ Build            erfolgreich                      (2m 54s)
✓ Unit-Tests       412 passed, 0 failed             (8m 26s)
✓ Behavioral-Tests 291 scenarios, 291 passed        (14m 12s)
✓ Audit            keine bekannten Schwachstellen
✓ Sentry           keine Abstürze gemeldet
✓ Rollout          Dateisynchronisation OK
✓ Migrationen      3 Aktualisierungen ausgeführt
✓ Wartungsmodus    deaktiviert
✓ Health-Check     200 OK · 84 ms

Reliability

What makes long-term operations work

Operations are more than a server that runs: regulated security, binding response times and a budget for further development, so that the platform holds up for years.

Security & data protection

ISO/IEC 27001 certified across the entire infrastructure. OPNsense firewall with web application firewall, network segmentation and intrusion detection. All data stays in Switzerland, compliant with the Swiss FADP and the GDPR.

SLA & service desk

A central service desk for incident reports and requests, with defined response times and traceable ticket histories. Binding service level agreements with guaranteed availability, measurable and auditable.

Development over the whole lifetime

Fixed monthly budgets for new features and optimisations, prioritised with your team. Platforms on the stack are designed for 5–7+ years of operation, with a documented concept for operational continuity, so that knowledge lives in the system.

Case studies

In production for years

Three platforms that we not only built, but have operated without interruption ever since.

Sport · Portal

Swiss-Ski competition database

Calls for entries, registration, points and rankings in eleven disciplines, from club races to national level.

Healthcare · Platform

e-health platform OPAN^®

Referral platform for aftercare: hospitals, practices and private individuals register patients with Spitex, care homes and clinics and see available capacity.

Church · Platform

Reformed Church of Basel-Landschaft

One platform for the cantonal church, specialist offices and parishes: Mandator bundle, shared CMS and the same calendar on every website.

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Transition

Operations begin before go-live

Acceptance, deployment and the first months afterwards decide how smoothly operations run later. That is why they are part of the project and not an appendix. How we go about it is described under Go-live & operations.