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The decisions that come before choosing a provider
Before anyone looks for an IT provider, a different question is usually on the table: support contract or hourly billing? Server on site or cloud? Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace? These pages set out the comparisons with the arithmetic — including the cases where the answer goes against our own offering.
Every one of these pages says explicitly when the other option is the right one. A comparison that always leads to your own offering is not a comparison; it is advertising with a table.
Contract or hourly
Ongoing contract or billing by effort: the arithmetic that shows which model pays off — with figures you can check yourself.
Server on site CloudServer or cloud
Server on site or cloud: what the decision really depends on — software, data volumes, your connection and how long an outage may last.
Microsoft 365 Google WorkspaceMicrosoft 365 or Google
The factual comparison for small businesses: where the two packages genuinely differ — and what the decision hangs on in practice.
How we compare
Three rules hold these pages together. First: every comparison states explicitly when the other option wins — in its own block of equal size, not in a half-sentence at the end. Second: where a decision hangs on a number, the arithmetic is shown, so you can follow it with your own figures. Third: no third-party prices appear here. They change, and an out-of-date figure about somebody else is worse than none — we point to what the vendor itself says instead.
Why exactly these three
These are the three decisions most often still open in a first conversation. They have one thing in common: they cannot be made sensibly without looking at the business in question — which is why each page states the question it hangs on rather than a recommendation. If a comparison you need is missing, write to us; we add it when the question comes up more than once.
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