Occasional posts about how this is actually done, and the odd piece of news from us. No industry news, nothing written to rank for a search term.
We design, deploy and run open-source Zabbix for clients who want to see their own estate. Now we also supply Zabbix’s own support and professional services, delivered by the people who make it.
We have been building and operating infrastructure on Proxmox for years. What changes is that we now supply the subscriptions ourselves too: architecture, deployment, licensing, support and operation, from one team.
It sounds like a simple question. The answer usually involves a database, object storage, backups, logs, notifications and a search index.
Technically true and practically incomplete. The useful part is precisely that somebody else owns a great deal of difficult infrastructure.
Reselling someone else’s capacity is cheaper to start and worse to answer questions about. Here is what running the machines ourselves actually changes.
Good infrastructure is not designed to stop servers failing. It is designed around what happens next.
Shared, virtual, dedicated, private cloud. The list looks like small, medium, large and enormous. That is not what separates them.
Describe the workload or the system you have in mind and we will tell you what it needs, what it costs, and whether we are the right people for it.