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Infrastructure and cloud: hosting, operating, leaving SaaS
A small business's infrastructure is the servers and cloud services its tools run on: CRM, automation, website, analytics, AI. Choosing it means deciding between renting software by the month, running it on a cloud you control, or hosting it yourself, each with a fixed cost and a very real operating workload.
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Cloud infrastructure: the foundation for all your projectsBefore the first project, a cloud infrastructure foundation settles accounts, access, backups and budget once and for all, and every later project inherits it. What it contains, where to put it, what it costs and why running it matters more than installing it.
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Understand6 min
Cloud and AI Development Act: tripling data centres
Presented on 3 June 2026, the Cloud and AI Development Act aims to triple European data centre capacity and to create a four-level sovereignty scale for public cloud procurement. What the proposal contains, where negotiations stand, and what still holds when choosing a hosting provider today.
Understand7 min
Data Act: cloud switching charges end in January 2027
From 12 January 2027, a cloud provider can no longer charge for switching providers, and new connected devices already have to give users their data. What the Data Act lets you demand, and what it will not do for you.
Practical guide13 min The topic guide
Cloud infrastructure: the foundation for all your projects
Before the first project, a cloud infrastructure foundation settles accounts, access, backups and budget once and for all, and every later project inherits it. What it contains, where to put it, what it costs and why running it matters more than installing it.
Choose and price7 min
Running an AI model on your own servers: the hardware
Running an AI model yourself keeps data in-house, but everything comes down to one resource: memory. How to estimate what a model needs, which cards meet it, and when to rent rather than buy.
Choose and price6 min
Business email: Google, Microsoft or a European host
Email is the tool that opens all the others: every forgotten password is reset by email. Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 or a European host: what you are really choosing, where the data lives, and what gets your emails delivered.
Understand9 min
Cloud costs: the five items that inflate the bill
A cloud bill almost never jumps all at once: it grows through items nobody looks at. The five that weigh the most, what makes them invisible, and the routine that keeps them under control without slowing projects down.
Practical guide9 min
Cloud migration: moving what you have without breaking it
A successful cloud migration does not move everything in one block: it picks a strategy for each workload, copies instead of moving and keeps a way back. This is the method we apply, with three migrations we have carried out as examples.
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Cloudflare in front of everything: what a proxy protects
Putting Cloudflare or another reverse proxy in front of your services absorbs attacks, filters requests and takes load off the server. What it really protects, what it lets through, and why it becomes a choke point to watch.
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Dedicated server, VPS or cloud: choosing by use
Dedicated server, VPS or cloud: none of them is the right choice for everything. What really sets them apart, the four questions that decide for each use, and why most companies end up combining all three.
Practical guide8 min
Disaster recovery plan: what has to be written down
The day a server, a data centre or an account disappears, it is too late to decide the order of things. What a disaster recovery plan must contain, the two figures management must set, and how to know it works.
Understand7 min
Infrastructure as code: rebuilding a server in one command
A server configured by hand ends up resembling nothing anyone knows, and the day it disappears, nobody can rebuild it. Infrastructure as code describes it in versioned files: what that changes for the business, the tools by layer, and what it does not rebuild.
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Kubernetes: when a mid-sized company does not need it
Kubernetes has become the standard for large platforms, and a given in many technical proposals. For a mid-sized company: what it really brings, what it costs to maintain, and the signs that say it is not yet time.