Managed container hosting
Hosting that behaves like infrastructure, priced for smaller teams.
High availability, TLS, managed databases, Redis and scheduled jobs on the same platform we run for larger customers — packaged, maintained and supported under an agreement.
- High availability
- Automatic TLS
- Managed database
- Redis cache
- Scheduled jobs
- Maintenance with SLA
What every plan includes
The parts people forget until something breaks
High availability
Multiple replicas behind a load balancer, with rolling deploys so releases do not take the site down.
Automatic TLS
Certificates issued and renewed automatically. Nothing expires quietly at the weekend.
Managed database
PostgreSQL or MySQL, patched and backed up, with point-in-time recovery on business plans and above.
Redis cache and sessions
Managed cache for sessions, carts and queues — the usual difference between a fast store and a slow one.
Scheduled and batch jobs
Cron-style jobs for imports, invoicing and nightly processing, with alerting when one fails silently.
Backups you can restore
Daily backups, retention you choose, and restores actually tested on a schedule.
Monitoring and alerts
Uptime, certificates, resource pressure and job failures — watched, with someone to act on them.
Maintenance and patching
Platform, runtime and dependency updates handled as part of the plan, not as a project.
Plans
Pick the level of resilience you need
Starter
Portfolio, brochure and CMS sites
Pricing on request
One containerised application on shared platform capacity, with TLS, a managed database and backups that are actually tested.
- One application containerDeployed from your Git repository
- Automatic TLS certificatesIssued and renewed for you
- Managed databasePostgreSQL or MySQL, small instance
- Daily backupsRetained, with a monthly restore test
- Uptime monitoring and alerts
- Business-hours support
- Environments
- Production
- High availability
- Single replica
- Scheduled jobs
- Up to 5
Support: Essential · Business hours, Sunday–Thursday
Business
Most chosenOnline stores and SME business applications
Pricing on request
High availability across replicas, Redis caching, scheduled batch jobs and a staging environment — the setup most small stores actually need.
- High availabilityMultiple replicas behind a load balancer, rolling deploys
- Managed database with point-in-time recovery
- Redis cache and sessions
- Scheduled and batch jobsCron-style, with failure alerting
- Staging environment
- Automatic TLS and CDN-ready ingress
- Metrics, logs and alerting
- Environments
- Production + staging
- High availability
- Multi-replica
- Scheduled jobs
- Unlimited, fair use
Support: Business · Extended hours, seven days
Scale
Growing SaaS and high-traffic stores
Pricing on request
Dedicated capacity, database replicas, autoscaling and 24×7 cover, for applications where an hour of downtime is expensive.
- Dedicated node pool
- Database replica and failover
- Autoscaling on demand
- Blue-green or canary releases
- Queue and worker infrastructure
- Quarterly disaster recovery drill
- 24×7 incident response
- Environments
- Production, staging, preview
- High availability
- Multi-node, replicated data
- Recovery testing
- Quarterly
Support: Critical · 24×7 on-call
Managed public cloud
Teams staying on AWS, Azure, GCP or DigitalOcean
Pricing on request
Management fee only. Your cloud provider invoice is paid at cost, with no margin added by us.
Your cloud account, your invoice, our engineers. We design, build and operate the environment; the provider bills you directly at cost.
- Account and landing-zone setup
- Infrastructure as code for everything we build
- Monitoring, alerting and incident response
- Backup, patching and cost review
- Monthly usage and spend report
- Cloud spend
- Billed by the provider, at cost
- Locara fee
- Fixed monthly management fee
- Account ownership
- Yours
Support: Business · Extended hours, seven days
Plans cover platform capacity, operations and support. Domain registration, third-party licences and any public-cloud consumption are billed separately and at cost. Ask us for a sizing recommendation — we would rather put you on the right plan than the larger one.
Maintenance & SLA
Support tiers, and what each one commits to
| Tier | EssentialBusiness hours, Sunday–Thursday | BusinessExtended hours, seven days | Critical24×7 on-call |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it is for | Keeping a small site or store healthy: patching, backups, monitoring and a route to a human. | For revenue-carrying sites: faster response, release support and a named engineer who knows your setup. | For systems where downtime is measured in lost revenue or regulatory exposure. |
| Included |
Out-of-hours incidents are picked up the next business morning. |
|
Requires an architecture that can actually meet the target — we will say so before signing if it cannot. |
First-response targets are agreed in your contract and matched to a rota that can meet them. Ask us for the current targets — we would rather quote a number we can hit than publish one we cannot.
Public cloud, pay as you go
Staying on AWS, Azure or GCP? Two ways to handle the bill.
The cloud account stays in your name. The provider bills you directly for what you use, we keep that bill optimised, and we invoice only the management fee.
Best for: Teams with their own cloud agreement, card or procurement process
- 01
Your account
The cloud account is in your name, with your billing details and your ownership.
- 02
We design and build
Landing zone, networking, environments and pipelines — as infrastructure as code in your repository.
- 03
You consume
Usage is metered by the provider at their published rates, under any discounts you already hold.
- 04
Provider invoices you
Directly, at cost. We add nothing to it, and you can audit every line in your own console.
- 05
We invoice the management fee
A fixed monthly fee for operating the environment, agreed in advance.
- 06
Monthly review
Spend, usage and right-sizing recommendations — including where you can spend less.
What you receive
Provider invoice
From AWS, Azure, GCP or DigitalOcean, direct to you, at cost.
Locara invoice
Fixed monthly management fee only.
Worth knowing
You need a billing arrangement with the provider — a card, credit terms or an enterprise agreement — and you carry the currency exposure on that invoice directly.
No margin on infrastructure
We do not profit from your consumption under either model, so advice to shut something down costs us nothing.
Your data and code stay yours
Repositories, data and infrastructure definitions are yours in both arrangements, whoever the account belongs to.
Cost work is part of the fee
Right-sizing, storage lifecycle and reserved-capacity advice are included rather than billed as a project.
Under both models, cloud consumption is charged at cost with the underlying charges visible — you always see what the infrastructure cost and what operating it cost. Tell us which arrangement suits your procurement and we will quote accordingly.
Who this is for
Built for smaller teams with real uptime requirements
FAQ
Questions before you move a live site
Yes. They run as containers on the same platform as everything else, which is what makes staging, rolling updates, backups and monitoring consistent rather than bespoke per application.
If an application only ships as a traditional server install, we will say so and host it on a virtual machine instead — under the same maintenance and support arrangement.
Two separate invoices, and no margin hidden between them:
- Your cloud provider bills you directly for what you consume, at their price. The account stays in your name.
- Locara bills a management fee for designing, building and operating the environment.
Where a provider only bills through a reseller, we pass the invoice through at cost and show you the underlying charges. You always see what the infrastructure cost and what the operating cost.
Coverage hours, first-response targets by severity, and the scope of what we maintain: platform and OS patching, backups and restore testing, certificate renewal, monitoring and incident response.
Response targets are set in your agreement rather than advertised loosely, because a target is only meaningful if the on-call rota behind it is real. Ask us for the current targets per tier.
Tell us what you are running today
Send the URL and roughly what it does. We will come back with a plan recommendation, a migration outline and what it would cost to keep it running properly.