Hosting & Maintenance

Overview

Kartoza’s Hosting and Maintenance services provide fully managed infrastructure for your geospatial applications. We handle the technical complexity so you can focus on using your GIS tools effectively.

Our DevOps team actively maintains and monitors systems during standard office hours (05h00-15h00 UTC, Mon-Fri), with robust automated failover systems and best-effort monitoring outside of these hours.

What We Host

• PostGIS spatial databases
• GeoServer map services
• GeoNode SDI platforms
• QGIS Server deployments
• Custom web mapping applications
• Tile caching infrastructure
• API services and backends

Service Features

• Automated daily backups with a 10-day rolling archive
• SSL certificates and security hardening
• Performance monitoring and alerting
• Regular security updates and patches
• Scalable infrastructure that grows with you
• Geographic redundancy options
• Staging environments for testing

Hosting Plans

Shared Managed Infrastructure

Ideal for standard deployments, development and testing environments, or organisations looking to balance performance against cost.

• Cost-Optimised Performance: Your services are hosted concurrently on shared Kubernetes nodes alongside other applications, delivering reliable, enterprise-grade GIS hosting at an affordable price point.
• Managed Environment: Standard updates, performance monitoring, and automated backups are fully managed by our DevOps team so you can focus entirely on your spatial workflows.

Dedicated GIS Clusters

Designed for production applications, governments, and enterprise organisations with strict resource isolation and high traffic requirements.

• Complete Segregation: Segment your spatial databases and applications on your own dedicated virtual machines or Kubernetes clusters to prevent any “noisy-neighbour” performance issues.
• Predictable & Scalable Resources: Enjoy highly predictable responsiveness and dedicated system memory. Easily configure load balancers to scale nodes dynamically as your organisation’s spatial datasets and traffic grow.
• High Availability & Redundancy: Optional setups for geographic redundancy, redundant cluster controller nodes, and customised failover paths to guarantee maximum uptime for mission-critical deployments.

Custom Infrastructure Deployments

We understand that spatial workloads are unique. If your deployment requires specialised database scaling, massive tile-caching infrastructure, or specific geographical hosting zones, our DevOps team will dynamically design a custom, managed hosting package and quotation tailored to your technical requirements.

Benefits

• No server administration headaches
• Predictable monthly costs
• Expert optimisation and tuning
• Rapid deployment of new services
• Disaster recovery included
• Scale up or down as needed