Will my migration cause downtime?

That is not the plan. We migrate in phases with continuous replication, validate the workload in the new environment, and only then cut over — always with rollback ready. Most cutovers happen with no perceptible downtime.

Is bare metal really cheaper than AWS?

For predictable workloads, yes — typically up to 80% less per month, because you remove the virtualization markup and egress fees. Run the calculator above with your numbers; if your workload is elastic and spiky, we will tell you.

What happens to my database (RDS, Cloud SQL)?

PostgreSQL/MySQL with Patroni: high availability, automated failover, backups and read replicas — migrated via replication and validated before cutover.

What if I need to scale suddenly?

The steady base runs on dedicated and spikes burst into the cloud — hybrid architecture from day one, with no lock-in either way.

Do you operate the environment afterwards?

Yes. 24/7 monitoring, patches, tested backups and prioritized response under SLA — and you keep full access and ownership of everything.

What about services with no open equivalent, like managed AI?

They stay where they are. The strategy is hybrid by design: we migrate what pays the bill and keep in the cloud what has no mature alternative yet.

You only pay from what you save: our fee equals 2 months of the monthly savings generated — and only exists if the savings exist. The initial audit is free.

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Cloud economics, re-engineered

Stop burning capital on overpriced infrastructure.

Move the right workloads from AWS, Azure, or GCP to rented dedicated servers and cut your monthly infrastructure bill by up to 80% — without sacrificing reliability.

Calculate your savings

Up to 80% savings0% egress fees100% dedicated hardware

Infrastructure signal

Monthly cost trajectory

PUBLIC

DEDICATED

Potential savings

$8,420 / mo

−78.4%

Reliability stays above 99.99%

01 / Run the numbers

Your bill has a simpler answer.

Model your current footprint against dedicated infrastructure. These are directional estimates designed to reveal the scale of the opportunity.

Workload profile

Tune your monthly footprint

vCPUs / cores32 cores

RAM128 GB

NVMe storage4 TB

Outbound egress20 TB / month

Estimated monthly cost

AWS vs. dedicated

Public cloud$3,428

Dedicated bare metal$350

Your potential savings

$3,078 / month

That is 90% less, or $36,931 back in annual runway.

Our fee: 2 months of your savings $6,155 — only if there are savings

02 / The real cost

Cloud is convenient. Convenience is not a cost strategy.

The hyperscaler model is excellent for experimentation. Mature, predictable workloads deserve a different economic model.

Egress traps

The bill grows every time your product delivers value. Public cloud charges you for moving the data you already own.

vCPU markup

You pay a premium for virtualized slices of hardware that could run faster and cheaper on dedicated silicon.

Idle resource waste

Autoscaling sounds efficient until low-utilization instances, replicas, and reserved capacity quietly compound.

Surprise invoices

Variable usage, service fees, and opaque discounts make forecasting next month a finance exercise.

03 / Cloud to open source

The same capabilities. With an open stack.

This is our mapping: the services you use in the cloud and the open-source alternatives we deploy, operate and support in your environment.

Capability

Cloud offers

Open source equivalent

What we deliver

Compute & autoscaling

Cloud offersEC2, Azure VMs, Compute Engine

Open source equivalentKubernetes + KubeVirt / Cluster API

What we deliverRun VMs and containers on rented dedicated servers with the same scheduling and autoscaling patterns.

Object storage

Cloud offersS3, Blob Storage, Cloud Storage

Open source equivalentMinIO or Ceph

What we deliverS3-compatible buckets, versioning, lifecycle rules, replication, and private endpoints.

Managed databases

Cloud offersRDS, Cloud SQL, Azure Database

Open source equivalentPostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB + Patroni

What we deliverHigh availability, automated failover, backups, and read replicas with open tooling.

Block storage

Cloud offersEBS, Persistent Disk, Managed Disks

Open source equivalentCeph RBD or Longhorn

What we deliverPersistent volumes for Kubernetes with snapshots, replication, and volume expansion.

Load balancing & ingress

Cloud offersALB, Application Gateway, Cloud Load Balancing

Open source equivalentNGINX, HAProxy, Traefik, MetalLB

What we deliverTLS termination, routing, health checks, and traffic distribution at the edge.

Observability

Cloud offersCloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Cloud Monitoring

Open source equivalentPrometheus + Grafana + Loki

What we deliverMetrics, dashboards, logs, alerts, and traces in one portable observability stack.

Secrets & identity

Cloud offersSecrets Manager, Key Vault, Secret Manager

Open source equivalentOpenBao + Keycloak

What we deliverCentralized secrets, rotation, SSO, OIDC, RBAC, and audit trails without proprietary lock-in.

Queues & event streaming

Cloud offersSQS, Service Bus, Pub/Sub

Open source equivalentNATS, RabbitMQ or Apache Kafka

What we deliverDurable messaging, retries, consumer groups, and event-driven workflows.

04 / How it works

From audit to cutover, no surprises.

A 4-step path, with a validated pilot before any cutover — and a planned rollback at every stage.

Audit

We map costs, workloads and dependencies to find where the savings live.

Sizing

We design the bare-metal + open-source target, with side-by-side comparable TCO.

Pilot migration

We move one real workload, validating performance and cost before scaling.

Cutover + operations

Planned cutover with rollback ready; then we operate under SLA.

05 / Proof over promises

The market is already moving.

From Basecamp to the world’s most data-intensive teams, dedicated infrastructure is becoming a competitive advantage again.

SaaS

37signals

annual savings by moving Basecamp workloads away from hyperscalers

$3M+

impact reported

Data platform

Ahrefs

lower infrastructure costs with a high-performance rented dedicated stack

80%

impact reported

Benchmark

Modern teams

more compute per dollar for predictable production workloads

2–6x

impact reported

Honesty first

Not everything should leave the cloud.

We tell you where repatriation pays — and where the cloud still wins.

Great fit for dedicated

Predictable 24/7 workloads (SaaS, APIs, databases)
Heavy egress: outbound traffic, backups and replication
Regulated data or defined residency needs
Bills above $5k/mo with steady growth

Better left in the cloud

Unpredictable spikes and extreme elasticity
Serverless experiments and throwaway MVPs
Managed AI services with no mature open equivalent

Hybrid is normal: steady base on dedicated, spikes in the cloud.

We run it for you, under SLA.

24/7 monitoring with alertingManaged patches and updatesTested backups with validated restorePrioritized incident response

You keep full access and ownership of everything.

Frequently asked questions

Questions we hear in every audit.

Straight answers — no fine print.

Pricing

You only pay from what you save.

No flat retainer, no risk: our fee comes out of the savings we generate.

Free audit, no strings attached
No proven savings, no fee
Fee paid from the savings themselves, not your pocket

2×

months of generated savings

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