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Managed hosting and consultation

Someone should be watching your app.

App Care keeps your custom or AI-built web app online, backed up and monitored, with a person who answers when something breaks. We manage the environment you have on DigitalOcean, AWS, Azure or Heroku, or migrate you to one that fits, and you own the code, data and accounts.

BEST FOR Apps an agency or freelancer built and nobody now runs, Apps built with Lovable, Bolt, Replit, v0 or Claude that now have users, Founders tired of being the accidental sysadmin, Teams on Heroku, Azure, AWS or DigitalOcean who want it managed

PRICE
From $199/month
Starts with a $399 assessment, credited to your first invoice and waived on annual prepay. Each plan includes your cloud hosting bill up to a set amount. No automatic overage charges. Monthly plans cancel with 30 days' notice.
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What you get

Monitoring and alerting

Uptime and error monitoring, with application performance monitoring on Growth and above.

Daily backups and restore

7-day retention on Foundation, 30 days on Growth, 90 days on Concierge.

Staging environments

Production plus staging, or development, staging and production on Growth.

SSL, DNS and patching

Platform-level security patching, certificates and domain configuration handled for you.

Consultation time

Monthly health reports plus scheduled office hours or consultation calls instead of a ticket queue.

Ownership in writing

Most hosting arrangements with agencies are quiet lock-in. Ours is the opposite, and it is in the agreement: the code, the data and the deliverables are yours. If we part ways, the repo, app, a current database export and all configurations transfer to you or your new team within 30 days, with environments live through the handover.

How it works

Assessment

We review your app, infrastructure and risks, then deliver a written report with a migration plan and your exact monthly price. About a week, read-only access.

Migration or takeover

We manage your current environment or build a new one and migrate. Nothing cuts over until it is verified, and your old setup stays live until the new one is proven.

Operation

Monitoring, alerting, daily backups, SSL and patching from day one, plus a monthly health report and scheduled consultation.

Plans and pricing

Foundation
Production and staging, daily backups with 7-day retention, monitoring, SSL, DNS and patching, 24-business-hour response, monthly health report, quarterly office hours. Cloud bill included up to $80/mo.
$199/mo or $1,980/yr
Growth
Everything in Foundation plus three environments, 30-day backups, application performance monitoring, 8-business-hour response, dependency vulnerability reporting, monthly consultation and quarterly roadmap review. Cloud bill included up to $150/mo.
$399/mo or $3,970/yr
Concierge
Everything in Growth plus 4-business-hour priority response, a dedicated Slack channel, 90-day backups, disaster-recovery runbook, restore drills, access audits, credential rotation and a monthly strategy call with the founder. Cloud bill included up to $300/mo.
By assessment

Questions

Do I have to move my app?

No. We can manage the environment you already have or migrate you to a platform that fits better. The assessment lays out both paths with numbers, and you pick.

Who owns the code and the data?

You do. The agreement says so, including a 30-day transfer-back if you leave.

What counts as hosting support versus development work?

Infrastructure problems like servers, databases, deploys, SSL and DNS are included. When an issue traces to application code, we tell you exactly what we found and quote the fix separately, or hand the findings to your own developer. No blurry lines, no surprise invoices.

Can you host an app built with AI?

Usually, yes. Apps on common stacks such as Next.js, Node, Python and Supabase or Postgres migrate smoothly. The assessment confirms it before you commit.

What is not included?

New feature development, bug fixes in your application code, framework or dependency upgrades, and content or design changes.

What if my app is huge or unusual?

The assessment catches that. Some apps need a custom plan, and we will tell you honestly, including if we are not the right fit.

Talk it through with AJ.

Tell AJ what you need, whether it's one of our products, a partner platform or something custom.

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