Three concerns finance teams raise with us every week: rising energy bills, ransomware risk, and the box that's now too old to depend on - all have the same answer.
Most Sage 200 hosting conversations start with the same three worries. We've spent a decade building a platform around each of them. Read the answer; click through if it raises more.
One predictable monthly figure. £426 platform fee, £33 per Sage user, £950 one-off setup (up to 10 users). No add-on bills for backup, security, monitoring, or patching later.
The cost-audit calculator does an honest like-for-like comparison against your current setup - including energy, depreciation, IT-support hours and the resilience gap nobody priced.
A layered, ransomware-informed security posture: network segmentation between customers, identity-bound access, endpoint protection.
Daily off-platform immutable backups - a copy that an attacker on the live environment cannot reach or encrypt. Restores are tested, not promised.
You stop buying servers. The Sage application moves to a dedicated VM in Microsoft Azure UK South, with a dedicated SQL Server instance - not shared multi-tenant.
We size it to your user count, patch and monitor it, and keep it on a Sage-supported version matrix. You stop worrying about end-of-life refresh cycles.
Archive hosting keeps your old Sage 200 or Sage 50 environment read-only and compliant for the retention period - seven years as standard, longer on request.
From £191/mo per Sage 200 licence or £132/mo per Sage 50 licence, on a 12-month contract. Direct-quote inside one working day.
A few years ago, our own business was hit with ransomware. We didn't lose the business - we recovered.
You don't take security seriously until you've lived through an attack. We hadn't. That's the gap mybusiness cloud is built to close.
But that experience was the reason mybusiness cloud fully moved to Microsoft Azure, with all the security benefits that come with Azure.
The year afterwards, the founder spent thinking about what he wished he'd had on the day it happened: the kind of always-on security a small business can't realistically build itself, backups that get genuinely tested, and a team that knows the system well enough to put it back together quickly.
Around 90 UK businesses host with us today, with hundreds hosted over the years. Sage 200 is our bread and butter - around 90% of our customers run it - and we also host Sage 50, with non-Sage hosting on the horizon where the same dedicated, UK-only model fits.
We didn’t lose the business - we recovered. Andrew Starkey · Founder
Andrew started working with Sage software in the mid-1990s. Implementations, customisations, troubleshooting, integrations. Most of his career has been hands-on with Sage 200 - its data model, its quirks, its add-ons, the things that go wrong on a Monday morning and the things that go right when the setup is correct.
That's the reason a customer can ring us with a Sage 200 IT question and talk to someone who already knows the shape of the answer. But the company isn't a one-person business - it's a team of engineers and Sage operators who run the platform day in, day out.
There's a place for a generic hyperscaler. There's also a place for someone who picks up the phone and already knows your system. For our customers, specialism shows up in three concrete ways.
We test Sage updates on our own systems before they go live on customers'. If something is going to break, we want to be the ones who hit it first - not your finance team on a Monday.
Most of the popular Sage 200 add-ons from the likes of Sicon, Eureka and Paperless already run on mybusiness cloud, as well as many third-party integrations into Shopify, Amazon and customers' own websites.
When a new accountant joins one of our customer companies, we set them up the same day - we've done it a hundred times. No ticket queue, no scheduling, no on-boarding form.
Over 90% of customers tell us they wish their other IT suppliers had a team as helpful and responsive as ours.
Sage hosting is too operational to depend on one person. Behind the founder story sits a small, focused team of hosting engineers and Sage operators who run the platform every day.
30+ years in Sage. Accredited Sage consultant. The person you'll email when the question is strategic.
Run the Azure infrastructure, patch the VMs, manage the SQL Server estate, and own the on-call rota.
Day-to-day Sage 200 users themselves. Handle user provisioning, add-on quirks, and the awkward questions.
Own the security stack - segmentation, monitoring, endpoint protection.
Team headcount and named operators are introduced individually during onboarding. We don't put a photo gallery on the website because the people doing the work change less often than the people on a marketing page.
We thought you might find a comparison for a typical 10-user Sage 200 site useful. Your real numbers come from the cost-audit calculator; these are the line items finance teams forget to count.
Illustrative figures for a 10-user site. Real numbers vary with kit, energy supply contract, IT-provider arrangement and add-on licences. The cost-audit produces a personalised PDF with the assumptions for your specific situation.
Five minutes with your real numbers. Prefer to talk it through first? Book a 30-min Teams call with Andrew - no qualification chain, no sales representative. The person who'll run your environment, on a call with you.