Website Hosting and Deployment

We match the right hosting platform to your application's requirements — from traditional IIS deployments through to fully managed cloud hosting on Microsoft Azure, containerised workloads running on Linux, and serverless orchestration with Azure Durable Functions.

SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS — choosing the right model

Cloud hosting comes in several distinct models, and the right choice depends on how much control you need versus how much you want the platform to manage on your behalf.

SaaS (Software as a Service) — the application and all its infrastructure is managed entirely by the provider. You consume it as a service, typically through a browser, with no responsibility for patching, scaling, or uptime. Microsoft 365 and GitHub are familiar examples. Where a third-party SaaS product meets your need, we can advise on selection and integration rather than building from scratch.
PaaS (Platform as a Service) — the cloud provider manages the underlying infrastructure (servers, networking, OS, runtime), and you deploy your application code on top. Azure App Service and Azure Functions are PaaS. This is our most common recommendation: you get full control over your application without the overhead of managing servers.
IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) — the cloud provider supplies virtual machines, storage, and networking, but you are responsible for the operating system, runtime, security patching, and everything above. Azure Virtual Machines are IaaS. We use IaaS when an application has specific OS-level requirements, needs a particular software stack, or must run alongside services that do not fit a managed platform.

In practice, most projects use a combination. A typical Azure deployment might use PaaS (App Service) for the web application, IaaS (a VM) for a legacy component that cannot be containerised, and SaaS (Microsoft 365) for email and collaboration — all connected through Azure networking and secured with Entra ID.

Azure Cloud Hosting

Azure App Service — managed PaaS hosting for web applications and APIs on Windows or Linux
Azure Container Apps — serverless container hosting with automatic scaling
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) — orchestrated container workloads at scale
Azure Static Web Apps — front-end hosting with integrated CI/CD
Azure Functions — event-driven serverless compute for lightweight processing tasks

Docker and Linux Hosting

We build and deploy Docker containers for applications and supporting services that need a consistent, portable runtime environment. Containerised workloads can run locally for development, in Azure Container Apps or AKS for production, or on any Linux host. We use Docker Compose for local multi-container orchestration — for example, pairing an API with a background processing service such as a Tesseract OCR worker — and can prepare production-ready images for deployment to any container registry.

Dockerfile authoring and image optimisation
Docker Compose for local and staging environments
Linux-based hosting on Azure Container Apps, AKS, or bare VMs
Azure Container Registry for image storage and versioning

Traditional Windows Hosting

IIS on Windows Server — on-premises or Azure VM
Full control over application pools, bindings, and SSL certificates

Deployment Pipelines

All hosting options can be wired into an Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline so that every approved change is built, tested, and deployed automatically — no manual file copies, no downtime.