A slow site or a server outage costs you sales and trust, and most companies don't have anyone dedicated to running servers. At Andes Development we use Cloudways to host our clients' websites and applications: Cloudways handles the server layer, and we handle the configuration, updates, and monitoring.
"Hosting isn't just where your site lives. It's who updates it, who backs it up, and who answers when something breaks."
// The challenge of traditional hosting
Plenty of companies outgrow their original infrastructure faster than it can keep up:
- Operational instability Shared servers or poorly configured VPS instances that buckle under a traffic spike, like a campaign or a product launch.
- Security vulnerabilities Unpatched systems, no backups, and exposure to common attacks.
- Subpar support Providers that are slow to respond and leave your team guessing about what's happening with your site.
// What Cloudways offers
Cloudways is a managed hosting platform that runs on cloud providers like DigitalOcean, AWS, and Google Cloud and adds a management layer on top.
- Performance Caching with Varnish, Memcached, and Redis, plus an optional CDN that serves content closer to your visitors.
- Vertical scaling More RAM, CPU, or storage from the dashboard, without moving your site to another server. The server goes offline while the resources are allocated, so we schedule it for a low-traffic window.
- Security and backups OS-level firewalls, application isolation, bot protection, and scheduled automated backups.
// What our Silver tier means for you
Andes Development is a Cloudways Silver Partner. Under the Sidekick model, here's what that means for our clients:
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One point of contact
You report the problem to us. If it's on the platform side, we escalate it to Cloudways support and follow it through until it's closed. -
Architecture that fits
We choose the provider, region, and server size with you, based on your site's traffic and budget. -
Planned migrations
We copy your site to the new server, test it, and switch DNS at a time we agree on, to keep any interruption as short as possible.
// The bottom line
With Cloudways, your site's development and hosting stay with the same team. If something breaks, you don't have to figure out whether it's the code or the server; you call us. That's how we keep one of Andes Development's core promises, avoiding vendor lock-in, so your team can focus on the business.