We started Orietech because the hosting market got cynical. We wanted somewhere we'd actually point friends and clients without warning them about the small print.
Orietech runs a small fleet of properly-specified servers across London, Manchester and Frankfurt. We rent rack space directly from the data centres, manage our own hypervisors, and write our own control-panel software on top of cPanel and Virtualmin where it makes sense.
The team is roughly a dozen engineers, support staff and operators — most of us used to work at bigger hosts. We left because the answer to every operational issue was "throw it on the backlog" and the answer to every customer call was "follow the script." We wanted to build the opposite.
Hosting is plumbing. Plumbing should be invisible until it leaks, and when it leaks, you want a plumber who picks up the phone. Our job is to make the boring part work, transparently, so the people building things on top of us can stop thinking about it.
If we have to put up rates for new customers, existing accounts keep their rate. That's the deal.
Live chat is staffed by people who can SSH into the box. The ticket isn't a relay race — whoever picks it up usually fixes it.
We don't run experimental hardware. NVMe SSDs, dual-PSU servers, redundant network paths, properly-tested backups. The fun is in what you build on top.
Every plan we sell is something one of us would happily put a real site on. If we wouldn't, we don't sell it.
If we cause an outage, the post-mortem goes on the status page that day. Including the bit where we made the wrong call.
We're headquartered in the UK and bill in GBP by default. Data-residency rules matter, and we make the storage region a tick-box, not a sales conversation.
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