Your Data, Your Rules with Managed Alternative Solutions
Keep your data private and remain in control of your digital freedom with a Managed Open Source Alternative solution.
Open source alternatives to big names.
Why go for an alternative solution?
Make Your Applications Work for You, Not the Other Way Around
Having your open source alternative solution keeps you the one in control of your data, your costs, and your sanity.
Managed Service Plans
Let us take care of the heavy lifting. We’ll deploy your solution, monitor it and maintain it so you can focus on the important stuff.
Backups and Resilience
Ensure your data is kept backed up with a variety of secure solutions so you never have to worry about losing your data forever.
UK Technical Support Desk
With our Managed Service Plan, you have access to our experts with years of experience managing highly available web solutions.
Tailored Solutions
We built every solution bespoke to your requirements so that you have exactly what you need and nothing less. Have a particular need, we’ll aim to meet it.
World-Wide Hosting
If you require your workloads and applications to be hosted in a specific global location, we can provide a variety of possible options.
Open Source, Open-Ended Options
Rather than being stuck with a big name service, we can give you access to a whole host of open source options. Whatever your requirement, there’s something for you.
FAQ
Helpful Answers Before You Get Started
Find answers to the most common questions about our services, products, and what a managed alternative solution means.
A ‘Managed Alternative Solution’ is a fully managed open source alternative to a big name product. At Validus, we believe that you should have the freedom to choose alternative solutions to the big name products that take control of your data and implement features that you didn’t ask for.
An example of a Managed Alternate Solution would be something that you have control of and is hosted independently of a large provider. You may wish to stop using Google Docs and start using Nextcloud so that you control your data implement only the functionality of value to you.
We have a few types of Managed Service Plans to choose from but the right one depends on your needs. We will monitor your services, apply security patches, provide technical support, and help you grow your solution to your needs.
Absolutely. We appreciate that some people just need someone to get started but they’ll take it from there. Drop us a message and we will be happy to help!
We build bespoke solutions to your requirements, and given that we utilise open source options, the sky is almost the limit! Whether it’s a Gitlab repo, a Nextcloud workspace or a Stoat chat server, we can provide you with something.
Typically, we would look to host your solution on a server managed by Validus so that we can provide the best possible support. However, if you have a server of your own, we can work with you to deploy a solution on your own infrastructure.
Open source philosophy means you have the freedom to run the application for any purpose. It also means you have the freedom to see how the application functions, and change it to make it work how you want. Additionally, open source means you can share your changes to anyone you wish. We at Validus believe in the Open Source philosophy for the above reasons.
Yes, we can either make use of your existing domain or you can purchase a domain through us. If you’d like us to manage your domain as part of a managed service, then we would advise transferring the domain to us.
Send us an enquiry
Whether you have questions about the service or if you would like us to provide a quote, send us an enquiry and we’ll be happy to come back to you with some more information.