Cloud Infrastructure & Reliability
Infrastructure that scales quietly and recovers automatically.
The problem
Deploys are manual and risky, downtime is discovered by customers, and nobody is certain the backups restore.
How we solve it
Containerised workloads, CI/CD pipelines, autoscaling, observability and tested disaster recovery, fully managed or handed to your team.
Business impact
99.98% measured uptime and deploys that take minutes instead of evenings. Typical return: 40–60% lower infra spend.
What is included
Cloud Infrastructure & Reliability solutions
What actually breaks
Deployment is a person. One engineer connects to a box on a Friday evening, runs a script that lives on their laptop, and watches the logs. Nobody else will do it. The staging environment was configured by hand and has drifted since, so bugs appear only in production. Backups run nightly and have never been restored, which makes them untested files rather than backups. Outages are reported by customers, because no alert fires first.
How we build it
Infrastructure gets described in Terraform before anything is rebuilt, so the current state is written down and reviewable rather than discovered by clicking through a console. Workloads move into Docker images with pinned base layers, then onto Kubernetes or a managed container runtime, whichever the workload actually justifies. Pipelines build once and promote the same artefact through environments instead of rebuilding per stage. Monitoring covers saturation, error rate, latency and queue depth, with alerts routed to a person rather than a dashboard nobody watches. Restore drills are scheduled, because a restore that has not been run does not count.
What goes wrong on these projects
Migrations are rarely blocked by the migration. They are blocked by the one service with a hardcoded IP, a licence pinned to a MAC address, or a cron job on a server nobody has logged into since the person who wrote it left. Cost is the other surprise: containerising a workload that was oversized on its old host often proves it was oversized, and right-sizing is a negotiation rather than a switch.
What changes after
Deploys take minutes and any engineer can run one. Failures page the team before customers notice, and restores are something you have watched work. Measured uptime on managed infrastructure runs at 99.98%, and right-sizing typically brings infrastructure spend down 40–60%.
Questions we get asked first
Can you migrate us without downtime?
Yes. Foxquart runs the new and old environments in parallel, then cuts over behind a load balancer with a tested rollback path ready. Nothing is switched on faith. A regional hospital network moved a nightly-failing legacy system onto containerised infrastructure this way in 11 weeks.
What does managed hosting include?
Foxquart managed hosting covers patching, monitoring, incident response, capacity planning and a monthly reliability report. It is an agreement with defined response targets rather than best-effort cover, and on the 24/7 plan critical incidents are acknowledged within 15 minutes. Backups are proven by restore drills, not assumed.
How much can we realistically cut our cloud bill?
Foxquart infrastructure work typically lands 40–60% lower infrastructure spend, through right-sizing reviews, autoscaling instead of permanently over-provisioned capacity, and cost optimisation on workloads nobody has revisited. The hospital network migration cut infrastructure cost by 44% while measured uptime reached 99.98%.
How long does a cloud migration take?
Cloud migrations at Foxquart are measured in weeks, not quarters. A regional hospital network moved off a legacy records system with nightly outages onto containerised infrastructure with a high-availability database and observability in 11 weeks. Work runs in two-week increments, so the migration path stays visible throughout.
Can our own engineers run the infrastructure afterwards?
Yes. Foxquart delivers infrastructure either fully managed or handed to your team, and every environment is reproducible infrastructure as code rather than servers configured by hand. Pipelines, monitoring and runbooks are documented, and most engagements run jointly with your engineers so the handover is not a surprise.
How do you know the backups actually restore?
Foxquart tests them. Disaster recovery is verified with restore drills rather than treated as a theoretical backup policy, and the results feed the monthly reliability report. Most teams discover their backups do not restore during an incident, which is the worst possible moment to find out.
Tell us the process that is costing you the most hours.
A 30-minute call: what to automate first, what to leave alone.