Offer your software as a managed service - operated in Switzerland

VSHN runs your product for your customers: one dedicated instance each, hosted in Switzerland or on-premises, with 24/7 operations, monitoring, and compliance for regulated industries. You keep building the product; we keep it running.

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Since 2014Swiss Operations
24/7On-Call Coverage
ISO 27001Certified

Production Operations Since 2014

VSHN has run production infrastructure for regulated Swiss organizations since 2014 and was Switzerland's first CNCF Kubernetes Certified Service Provider in 2016. Your customers get an operations team that has already solved the reliability, security, and compliance problems your product will encounter at scale.

24/7 Support

Round-the-clock on-call coverage for every customer instance, with a one-hour response for critical incidents. You promise your customers a reliable managed service without hiring four to six engineers to staff a 24/7 on-call rotation yourself.

Monitoring and Incident Management

VSHN sets up and continuously refines monitoring for your defined service level indicators, then reacts to alerts: triage, resolution, or escalation, with every incident logged in your ticket system. This is the "taking care" layer: someone is always watching each customer instance and acting when something breaks.

Managed Configuration, Updates and Changes

Configuration, version updates, and change requests are handled as managed operations, applied consistently across every customer instance. Your release ships once; VSHN rolls it out, verifies it, and keeps each deployment patched against security advisories.

Compliance and References

VSHN is ISO 27001 certified and operates for HIN (over 90% of Swiss healthcare stakeholders), Finnova and acrevis in banking, and the Swiss Federal Archives. When your regulated customers run due diligence, you point to references and certifications instead of building a compliance program from scratch.

Swiss and On-Premises Hosting

Each customer instance runs on Swiss infrastructure from Cloudscale or Exoscale, or on the customer's own premises, with no hyperscaler dependency. Data residency and sovereignty requirements from finance, healthcare, and government customers are met by design.

Proactive Operations

Beyond reacting to incidents, VSHN looks for recurring patterns and proposes improvements: capacity headroom before customers hit limits, backup and restore testing with runbooks, and security baseline reviews. Operations get quieter over time instead of noisier.

Build vs. partner: an honest comparison

Operating software for regulated customers has a quality floor. Below it, you fail audits, miss SLAs, and lose deals. Above it, running operations yourself only looks cheaper until you account for 24/7 staffing, on-call burnout, and the cost of a single compliance miss.

Hire your own ops team

If your customers tolerate best-effort uptime, have no Swiss data residency or compliance requirements, and you already employ enough engineers to cover nights, weekends, and holidays, running operations in-house can be the cheaper option.

Partner with VSHN as your operations arm

The moment your customers demand real reliability, an SLA, Swiss hosting, or compliance evidence, matching that quality in-house means hiring a full operations team. VSHN delivers it for roughly the cost of half a full-time engineer, with less risk and no recruitment timeline.

If your customers need more than best-effort operations, partnering with VSHN is lower cost and lower risk than doing it yourself.

What VSHN operates for every customer instance

24/7 Incident Response — On-call engineers act on alerts within defined SLI targets, investigate and fix the issue or route it to your team, and log every incident in your ticket system.

Monitoring and Alerting — Continuously refined monitoring of your service level indicators with health-check endpoints and false-positive reduction.

Configuration and Change Management — Consistent configuration, version updates, and change requests applied and verified across every customer instance.

Backups and Restore Testing — Automated backups with periodic restore drills and documented runbooks so you can verify recovery, not just hope for it.

Security Baseline and Patching — Security advisories tracked and patches applied across instances, with baseline reviews to meet regulated-industry requirements.

Swiss and On-Premises Hosting — Each instance on Cloudscale, Exoscale, or customer premises, keeping data residency and sovereignty intact.

Proactive Capacity and Improvements — Recurring-issue analysis, capacity headroom planning, and improvement proposals so the same alert rarely fires twice.

Compliance Evidence — ISO 27001-certified operations and named Swiss references to support your customers' due diligence and audits.

The economics of outsourced operations

Monitoring (Office Hours)
from CHF 100/month
5x9 monitoring and alert handling per service level indicator; CHF 50/month per additional instance
Monitoring (24/7)
from CHF 1,200/month
Round-the-clock monitoring and incident response per service level indicator; CHF 200/month per additional instance

Genuine 24/7 coverage requires four to six engineers at CHF 150,000 to 200,000 each per year. VSHN delivers the equivalent operations for roughly the cost of half a full-time engineer (0.5 FTE). All prices in CHF, excluding VAT. Cloud provider compute is billed separately. Final pricing depends on the number of customer instances and your SLA.

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Application Operations FAQ for software vendors

What does "application operations as a service" mean for an ISV?

It means VSHN operates your software product on your behalf for each of your customers, one dedicated instance per customer, hosted in Switzerland or on-premises. You keep building the product while VSHN handles 24/7 monitoring, incident response, updates, backups, and compliance, so you can sell an SLA-backed managed service.

What SLA can I offer my customers through VSHN?

VSHN provides defined response-time SLAs (typically a one-hour response for critical incidents) and operates managed platform components with availability up to 99.99% on Swiss infrastructure. The exact SLA depends on whether you choose office-hours or 24/7 coverage and is fixed in a written service agreement per instance.

How much does it cost compared to hiring my own operations team?

Application operations start from CHF 800 per month per application and monitoring from CHF 100 per month per service level indicator. Genuine 24/7 coverage requires four to six engineers at CHF 150,000 to 200,000 each per year; VSHN delivers the equivalent for roughly the cost of half a full-time engineer, with no recruitment timeline.

Where is my customers' data hosted?

Each instance runs on Swiss infrastructure from Cloudscale or Exoscale, or on the customer's own premises, independent of AWS, Azure, and GCP. This keeps data residency and sovereignty intact for customers in finance, healthcare, government, energy, and telco who require their data to remain in Switzerland.

Are backups and disaster recovery included?

Yes. VSHN configures automated backups for every customer instance and performs periodic restore testing with documented runbooks, so recovery is proven rather than assumed. Backup scope, retention, and recovery objectives are agreed per instance and verified as part of ongoing operations, not left as a one-time setup.

What compliance and certifications does VSHN bring?

VSHN is ISO 27001 certified and is a Red Hat Premier Certified Cloud and Service Provider. It operates for regulated organizations including HIN, which serves over 90% of Swiss healthcare stakeholders, the banks Finnova and acrevis, and the Swiss Federal Archives, all references your customers can rely on during due diligence.

How does VSHN handle monitoring and incident response?

VSHN sets up and continuously refines monitoring for your defined service level indicators, usually HTTP health-check endpoints. When an alert fires, VSHN engineers investigate, fix the issue or route it to your team, and log the incident in your ticket system. Recurring issues are analyzed and turned into improvement proposals so the same problem does not repeat.

Do you manage updates and configuration changes to my software?

Yes. Configuration, version updates, and change requests are handled as managed operations and rolled out consistently across every customer instance. You ship a release once; VSHN deploys it, verifies it, and keeps each instance patched against security advisories, so no customer is left running an outdated or vulnerable version.

Can VSHN operate my software on a customer's own premises?

Yes. In addition to Swiss cloud hosting on Cloudscale and Exoscale, VSHN can operate your software inside a customer's own data center when contracts or regulation require it. The same 24/7 operations, monitoring, backups, and compliance practices apply regardless of where each instance physically runs.

Can VSHN operate software you have never seen before?

Yes. VSHN does not need to understand your application code. You define the service level indicators (typically HTTP health-check endpoints), and VSHN monitors them, responds to alerts, and manages the infrastructure underneath. You ship releases; VSHN deploys them, verifies them, and keeps each instance patched. You own the software logic; VSHN owns keeping it running reliably.

How do I get started?

Request a cost estimate and a VSHN architect will review your software, deployment model, customer SLAs, and compliance needs, then propose a tailored operations setup with transparent per-instance pricing. There is no commitment at the estimate stage, and you receive a written scope before any operations work begins.

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Tell us about your product, how your customers consume it, and the SLA and compliance they require. A VSHN architect will propose a tailored operations setup with transparent per-instance pricing. No commitment required.

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