Cloud Hosting
Hosting is infrastructure — and like all infrastructure, the details matter. The wrong setup costs you in downtime, slow response times, security incidents, or compliance headaches you didn't see coming. We take hosting seriously, and we manage it so you don't have to.
We provision, configure, monitor, and maintain cloud infrastructure for clients across New Zealand, using onshore and offshore platforms depending on what your project actually requires.
Onshore Hosting — Data in New Zealand
For many NZ businesses — particularly those in health, education, government, or professional services — keeping data onshore isn't just a preference, it's a practical or legal requirement. We work with two of New Zealand's most established hosting providers to meet that need.
SiteHost offers modern containerised hosting infrastructure built and operated entirely within New Zealand. It's well-suited to web applications, CMS platforms, and business workloads where local latency, local support, and NZ data residency all matter.
RimuHosting has been a fixture of the NZ hosting landscape for over two decades, with a reputation for reliable VPS infrastructure and responsive local support. For clients who need straightforward, dependable NZ-based servers without the overhead of a large cloud platform, it remains a strong option.
Keeping your data onshore means it stays under New Zealand jurisdiction, outside the reach of foreign data access laws, and closer — literally — to your users.
Offshore Infrastructure — Scale Without Limits
When your workload demands global scale, redundancy across multiple regions, or deep integration with managed cloud services, AWS and Google Cloud are in a class of their own.
We architect and manage infrastructure on both platforms — from simple EC2 or Compute Engine deployments through to containerised workloads, serverless functions, managed databases, CDN configuration, and automated CI/CD pipelines. We're comfortable at whatever level of complexity your project demands.
AWS and Google Cloud are also the right choice when you need to co-locate infrastructure close to international customers, integrate with third-party SaaS platforms, or take advantage of managed AI and ML services.
Managed Hosting — We Handle It
Most businesses don't want to think about hosting. They want their systems to work, to be fast, and to stay secure — without needing an in-house DevOps team to make that happen.
That's what managed hosting with dodat means in practice:
- Server provisioning and initial configuration
- OS and software updates, applied on a regular schedule
- SSL certificate management and renewal
- Security hardening and firewall configuration
- Uptime monitoring with alerting
- Automated backups with tested restore procedures
- Performance tuning for your specific workload
- A single point of contact when something needs attention
- You get the reliability of professionally managed infrastructure without the overhead of managing it yourself.
Reliability & Uptime
Downtime is expensive — in lost revenue, damaged reputation, and the hours spent recovering from it. We design hosting environments with reliability as a baseline requirement, not an upgrade.
That means appropriate redundancy for your risk profile, monitoring that catches problems before your users do, and backup and failover procedures that have actually been tested. For business-critical systems, we can implement multi-zone or multi-region architectures that keep your services running even when individual components fail.
The Right Platform for the Right Job
There's no single best hosting provider — there's the right one for your specific situation. We'll give you an honest recommendation based on your data requirements, budget, expected traffic, compliance obligations, and how much ongoing management you want to hand off.
In some cases that's a lean NZ-based VPS. In others it's a fully managed AWS environment with autoscaling and a global CDN. Often it's a combination — onshore for data and databases, offshore CDN for static assets and global delivery.
We're not tied to any one platform, which means our recommendation is always based on what works best for you.
Works Alongside Your Web Development
Hosting is most effective when it's designed alongside your application — not chosen after the fact. If you're building a new site or web application with us, we'll architect the hosting environment as part of the same engagement, ensuring your stack, your infrastructure, and your deployment pipeline are all aligned from day one.
For clients taking over an existing codebase or migrating away from a current provider, we handle the transition with minimal disruption.
Not sure what hosting setup is right for you? We'll assess your current situation and give you a straight answer — whether that's a quick fix, a migration, or a fully managed environment built from scratch.