Hosting and infrastructure chosen for the workload, not for the commission.
Hosting and infrastructure work decides how a site behaves on its worst day, not its average one. Gatilab picks the platform against the workload, configures Cloudflare properly, and hands every account to you. We do not resell hosting, which is exactly why the recommendation is worth something.
Delivery is remote, with calls in IST. You keep the code, the accounts, and every login in your own name.
Where this work usually goes wrong.
Three failures account for most of what we get asked to rescue. All 3 are scoping problems wearing technical costumes.
01
The host was chosen by whoever built the site
Agencies resell hosting because the margin is good and the lock-in is better. It is also why so many sites sit on a plan nobody would pick on merit, and why leaving the agency somehow means migrating the site.
02
Cloudflare is on, and configured wrong
Cloudflare in front of a site with default rules often caches the wrong things, misses the right ones, and silently breaks redirects or logged-in pages. The dashboard says protected while the cache hit rate says otherwise.
03
Nobody finds out until a customer does
Uptime checks that ping the homepage miss the checkout being down. Without monitoring on the paths that carry money, the first alert is an email from a customer.
What you can actually buy.
Six pieces of work, each scoped on its own. Most engagements start with one and add the others once the first has paid for itself.
Platform selection and sizing
A recommendation argued from your traffic, workload, and team, whether that lands on managed WordPress, Railway, Vercel, or a plain VPS. Written down with the tradeoffs.
Workload analysisCost modellingSizingTradeoffs
Cloudflare configuration
Cache rules that actually cache, page rules that do not fight your redirects, WAF tuned to your traffic, and DNS that someone can read 6 months later.
Cache rulesWAFDNSWorkers
Deployment pipelines
Staging that matches production, deploys that can be rolled back, and preview environments so review happens before the change is live.
CI and CDStaging parityRollbackPreview envs
Monitoring and alerting
Checks on the paths that carry revenue, error tracking wired to a person, and alerts tuned so they still mean something after a month.
UptimeError trackingLog retentionAlerting
Backups and recovery
Backups you have actually restored from, with a documented recovery time. An untested backup is a belief, not a plan.
Offsite backupsRestore drillsRetentionRunbooks
Migration and cutover
Moving hosts without the DNS-day drama: dry run, rehearsed cutover, redirects verified, and a rollback path if the new platform misbehaves.
Dry runCutover planDNSRollback
How this is priced.
Prices are in rupees and exclude tax. The scoping sprint is a fixed fee and comes off the build price if you go ahead.
Scoping sprint
from ₹27,000
For teams who need a real number and a written plan before committing to a build.
Month to month. A contract you cannot leave is a hostage situation.
Development and consulting are delivered remotely, so location changes meeting times and payment method rather than price. Hosting is never resold.
What we build with.
Chosen because they stay maintainable for whoever comes after us, not because they are new. If your team already runs something else and it works, we work in it.
WordPress
WordPressWooCommerceBricksPHPMySQL
JavaScript and headless
Next.jsAstroReactNode.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSS
Data and payments
PostgreSQLRedisStripeRazorpayGoogle Analytics
Hosting and delivery
VercelRailwayCloudflareGitHubDocker
Four stages, each ending in something you can hold.
Overruns come from work nobody scoped. Every stage produces an artifact you check before the next one starts.
01
Scope it honestly
We read what already exists before quoting. Most of the risk in this kind of work is invisible from the outside, so pricing it without looking is a guess dressed as a number.
You leave with: a written scope with the assumptions and risks named
02
Build on staging
Work happens on an environment your team can reach, reviewed weekly. You see it grow rather than getting a reveal at the end and a week to react.
You leave with: a staging URL you can click through as it grows
03
Ship with the failure paths
Error handling, logging, and rollback are built with the feature, not after it. The question is never whether something fails, it is whether you find out before your customers do.
You leave with: monitoring, alerting, and a rollback path that has been tested
04
Hand it over properly
Documentation your next hire can read, every account in your name, and a dependency list short enough to maintain.
You leave with: documentation, credentials, and no lock-in
Worth booking, or worth looking elsewhere.
Vague quotes do the most damage in exactly this kind of work. Half of this list is reasons we say no.
Worth booking
The work carries revenue, or the leads that produce it
You can name 1 person who approves technical decisions
You want the unknowns quoted rather than discovered
You would rather hear a scope is uncertain than get a confident wrong number
You want to keep owning your code, hosting, and accounts
Look elsewhere
Your budget is under ₹27,000. Below that we cannot look properly, and work quoted without looking is a guess.
You want a fixed price before anyone has read what exists. Whoever gives you one is pricing in the risk, and you are paying for it.
You need it live in 2 weeks. Compressed timelines move the risk rather than removing it.
You want us to host it. We do not resell hosting, on purpose.
You want the cheapest possible option. That is a real choice, and it is not what we are for.
Related services.
These pages go deeper on adjacent pieces of work, or cover the same ground from a different angle.
Scope, cost, ownership, and the cases where we are the wrong choice.
Do you resell hosting?
No, deliberately, and it is the reason our recommendation is worth reading. Every account is created in your name and paid by you. Leaving us costs you a set of credentials and nothing else, which is how it should be.
Which platform will you recommend?
It depends on the workload. Managed WordPress hosting for most content and commerce sites, Railway when the project needs long-running processes or its own database, Vercel for Next.js and Astro front ends, a plain VPS when the economics favour it. You get the reasoning, not just the answer.
Can you fix our existing Cloudflare setup without moving hosts?
Yes, and that is a common engagement on its own. Misconfigured cache rules, a blanket bypass that quietly disables caching, and page rules fighting redirects are the usual findings, and none of them require changing host.
What happens when something breaks at 2am?
That depends on the retainer you hold. Without one we work business hours, and we say so plainly rather than implying cover we do not provide. With one, the alerting routes to a named person and the runbook says what they do.
Tell us what you are trying to build.
Send the current situation, what you have already tried, and the outcome you need. The more specific you are, the more specific the reply.
Read by Gaurav personally, not routed to a sales queue
A reply within 1 business day with a specific recommendation
A straight answer on whether we are the right fit, including when we are not
Your details stay private and are never resold
Prefer to talk first? Message us on WhatsApp. Budgets under ₹27,000 are better served elsewhere and we will say so rather than take the project.