Server Management & Backup Pricing
$85 per server per month for 24/7 management — 20% off at five servers or more, plus 5%, 10%, or 15% off for quarterly, semi-annual, or annual prepay. Off-site Linux server backup from $15 a month. Month-to-month on both, with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Cloud Operations work — DevOps, monitoring, managed cloud — is scoped to your environment and custom-quoted; see below.
Server Management Pricing
$85 per server per month. Five servers or more drops the rate by 20%. Quarterly, semi-annual, and annual prepay drop it further, and the two discounts stack.
| Monthly | Quarterly (5% off) |
Semi-annual (10% off) |
Annual (15% off) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 to 4 servers | $85 | $95.00 | $90.00 | $85.00 |
| 5 or more servers Best value | $68 | $76.00 | $72.00 | $68.00 |
All prices are per server, per month, in US dollars (USD).
- 24/7 monitoring of the panel, the Linux OS, and the full service stack
- 5 to 10 minute urgent response, 10 to 30 minute standard
- Unlimited tickets — no per-task fees, no ticket caps
- Server hardening — CSF, fail2ban, ModSecurity, two-factor
- Security patching inside the urgent SLA
- Migrations — panel-to-panel, host-to-host, to or from cloud
- Performance tuning — databases, web server, PHP-FPM
- SSL, DNS, and mail server work
- All four panels, any host, at the same per-server price
Every supported control panel is covered at the same per-server price: cPanel server management, Plesk server management, DirectAdmin server management, and Virtualmin server management, along with Linux server management for servers that run no panel at all.
Running a mixed fleet — different control panels across your servers? Order them all on one invoice.
Panel licenses (cPanel, Plesk, CloudLinux) are billed separately from the $85 management fee — bring your own, or we resell them at our cost on a single invoice. DirectAdmin and Virtualmin you buy from the vendor. Contact us for current license pricing.
If you need the cloud environment itself covered, not just the servers managed, see the Cloud Operations pricing below — scoped to the work and custom-quoted, never a percentage of your cloud bill.
No setup fees. No fixed-term contract. The 30-day money-back guarantee covers your first month. See everything included →
Server Backup Pricing
Prices are based on the amount of disk space used on your server, minus any local backup directories on your server. The cost per gigabyte goes down as you increase the number of gigabytes purchased.
| Space Used | Monthly Cost |
|---|---|
| Up to 100 GB | $15 |
| Up to 200 GB | $26 |
| Up to 300 GB | $36 |
| Up to 400 GB | $44 |
| Up to 500 GB | $50 |
| Up to 750 GB | $65 |
| Up to 1 TB | $75 |
| Over 1 TB | Contact sales for a quote |
Paying quarterly, semi-annually, or annually saves up to 15% on the prices shown. Backup has no volume discount — the 20% five-server discount applies to server management only. All prices in USD.
- Nightly off-site backups via rsync
- 7 daily + 4 weekly backups — four weeks of recovery points
- Isolated from the source server — ransomware and intruders can’t reach it
- Restore a file, a database, an account, or the whole server on request
Month-to-month, no fixed-term contract. We restore it for you at no charge when we also manage the server. See backup details →
Cloud Operations Pricing
Managed DevOps Services, AWS Server Management, and Cloud Server Management are scoped to your environment and the work you hand off, then custom-quoted — never a percentage of your cloud bill. Project-based Website Repair & Modernization work is priced the same way — assessed first, then quoted in writing — and carries its own guarantee: if what we fixed breaks again within 90 days, we fix it free.
- Priced to the work — a written scope and quote before anything starts
- Never a percentage of your cloud bill
- No hidden costs — everything is quoted in writing
- Month-to-month, no fixed-term contract
- 30-day money-back guarantee
- Written SLA — custom SLAs available
Tell us what you run and what you would like to hand off, and a senior engineer starts the conversation — the scope and the quote that come out of it are built on your actual environment and put in writing. No obligation.
No Setup Fees. No Tier Wall. No Fixed Term.
The fine print on server management and backup. (Cloud Operations engagements are month-to-month with the same 30-day money-back guarantee; their scope and cost are quoted in writing before work starts.)
| You do not pay for | You can leave anytime |
|---|---|
| Setup or onboarding | Month-to-month, no fixed-term contract |
| Hourly add-ons | 30-day money-back guarantee on your first month |
| Per-ticket fees or ticket caps | No tier wall to climb out of |
| VAT or other surcharges | No cancellation fee |
- How is Linux Server Backup priced?
Backup is priced on the amount of disk space used on the server — from $15 a month for up to 100 GB to $75 a month for up to 1 TB. Servers over 1 TB are quoted by our sales team. Backup has no volume discount, but quarterly, semi-annual, or annual prepay saves up to 15%.
- Can I order server management and backup together?
Yes. Order from either page and add the other as an option — the server management order lets you add backup, and the backup order lets you add management. When we manage the server, we restore it from backup for you at no extra charge.
- During a server migration, do I need to pay for management on both servers?
No. When we migrate a server for you, we manage both the old server and the new server during the migration for the cost of one server.
- Do the volume discount and the prepay discount stack?
Yes. The 20% volume discount at five servers or more applies first, and the quarterly, semi-annual, or annual prepay discount applies on top. The two discounts stack.
- Can I bring my own backup?
Yes. If you already have a backup arrangement you trust, we can restore your Linux server from it when something goes wrong. We will not configure or monitor that backup system, since that responsibility stays with your team, but we will work with what you give us at restore time.
- How is Cloud Operations work priced?
Managed DevOps, cloud monitoring, and managed cloud services are scoped to your environment and the work you hand off, then custom-quoted — never a percentage of your cloud bill. The scope and the price go in writing before anything starts, so there are no hidden costs. Month-to-month, with the same 30-day money-back guarantee. Start the conversation.
- Do you charge a setup fee?
No, not on server management or backup — onboarding is included in your monthly per-server price on both. Cloud Operations work is different in kind: it is scoped and quoted in writing before anything starts, so you always know the full cost up front.
- What forms of payment do you accept?
We accept credit card, Stripe, PayPal and bank transfer.
- Do you charge VAT?
As a US-based company we do not charge VAT for any customers.
- What currency are your prices in?
All prices on this page and in the order forms are in US dollars (USD).
- What counts as a server?
Each server you want us to manage counts as one unit at $85 per month — whether it is a dedicated machine, a VPS, or a cloud instance (an AWS EC2 instance, a DigitalOcean Droplet, a Linode, and so on). We price the host, so containers running on a server are not billed separately. If you are not sure how your setup counts, contact us and we will tell you before you order.
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Order 24/7 server management at $85 per server per month, or off-site backups from $15 a month. Both month-to-month, both covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee.
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