Do we need a full platform engineer if we hire you for this?

Eventually yes. We're built to take a company from no infrastructure team to a working setup that an internal engineer can take over once headcount allows. Most clients hire their first DevOps/Platform person 6–18 months after we ship the initial setup.

Which cloud do you recommend?

Cloudflare for delivery and edge (Workers, R2, KV, D1) for most teams. AWS or GCP for primary compute and data when the workload requires it. We choose based on the workload, not on partner kickbacks — we don't take cloud reseller margins.

How long does an infrastructure build take?

6–10 weeks for a typical web-product setup (CI/CD, hosting, observability, backups, identity, secret management, basic IaC). Faster for greenfield projects, slower when there's existing infrastructure to migrate.

Do you handle 24/7 on-call?

Yes, as a paid add-on. We run a small on-call rotation across Ottawa and Kyiv time zones. Response SLA is 30 minutes during business hours, 2 hours outside. We don't pretend to be a managed-services giant — for true 24/7 critical infrastructure, we'll recommend partners.

What about security and compliance?

Baseline hardening (WAF, rate limiting, secrets management, dependency scanning, log retention, RBAC) is included. SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and PCI Level 1 require dedicated audit-track engagements; we run those with partners who specialize in audit preparation.

Turnkey IT infrastructure for growing companies

Why a "turnkey IT" service exists

Growing companies in the €1M–€20M ARR range usually need real infrastructure before they can afford a real platform engineer. The gap typically gets filled by a backend developer wearing two hats, a Vercel free-tier setup that's outgrowing itself, or a managed-services firm that charges €15K/month and disappears for three weeks at a time.

Marketing MIX, an international marketing studio with Ukrainian roots, headquartered in Ottawa and working across Canada, Ukraine, Germany, and France, runs a focused infrastructure practice — small team, hands-on, no managed-services bloat. We build the setup, document it, and hand it over.

What "turnkey infrastructure" includes

The setup we ship is opinionated. We've built variants of it dozens of times. The core stack:

Delivery layer

Cloudflare for DNS, CDN, edge compute, WAF, rate limiting, image optimization, and analytics.
Cloudflare Workers or Vercel for application hosting depending on workload.
Cloudflare R2 or AWS S3 for object storage.

Compute and data

AWS / GCP / Hetzner for primary compute when stateful workloads outgrow edge.
PostgreSQL managed (Neon, Supabase, RDS, Cloud SQL) — pick based on geography and budget.
Redis (Upstash for serverless, AWS ElastiCache for traditional).
Cloudflare D1 / KV / Durable Objects for edge-native data when latency demands it.

CI/CD and IaC

GitHub Actions for CI, with required checks, branch protection, and automated security scanning.
Terraform or OpenTofu for infrastructure-as-code where the resource count justifies it.
Wrangler / Vercel CLI / kubectl wired into deployment pipelines.

Observability

Grafana Cloud / Datadog / Cloudflare Analytics depending on stack.
Sentry for error tracking.
Logflare or BetterStack for structured logging.
Uptime monitoring with Pingdom or BetterStack.

Identity and secrets

WorkOS / Clerk / Auth0 for application auth.
1Password Business or Doppler for team secrets.
AWS Secrets Manager / Cloudflare Secrets for runtime secrets.
Okta / Google Workspace SSO at the org level.

Backups and DR

Daily automated backups for primary databases with cross-region replication.
Documented disaster-recovery runbook with tested restore procedures.
30-day point-in-time recovery for transactional data.

Security baseline

WAF rules and rate limiting on all public endpoints.
Dependency scanning (Dependabot, Snyk).
Secret scanning on commit.
Quarterly access review.
Logged audit trail for all production access.

How we deliver

Discovery (1 week). Audit existing systems, map workloads, document constraints (compliance, geography, team skills).
Architecture proposal (3–5 days). Written document with the stack, cost estimate, and migration plan.
Build in phases. Each phase ships to production behind a flag; we do not big-bang migrations.
Documentation. Every system gets a one-page runbook: how it works, how to debug it, who owns it.
Handover. Two days of pair-programming with your engineer(s) so the operating knowledge transfers.

Industries we've shipped infrastructure for

E-commerce on Shopify and headless. SaaS in fintech, legal tech, and education. International charities (with cross-border donation processing and PCI scope). Government and defense-adjacent contractors (procurement requirements reviewed per engagement — we know what FedRAMP-aware architecture looks like, even if the full certification needs partners).

Pricing

A clearly scoped audit starts at €1,800. Ongoing retainers start at €2,400 per month. Larger projects are quoted after scope is agreed.

What we don't do

Kubernetes for teams under 30 engineers. It costs more than it saves.
Build-your-own AI infra. For LLM workloads we recommend Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini APIs with proper caching — and we build that integration. Self-hosted models rarely pay off below very specific scale thresholds.
Compliance theater. We won't sell you SOC 2 readiness if the underlying controls aren't in place.

For the websites that run on top of this infrastructure, see /development-of-corporate-websites and /online-store-development. For the analytics layer, see /seo-promotion and /marketing-strategy-development.

Written by the Marketing MIX platform team. Last reviewed: 2026-05-13.

Turnkey IT infrastructure for companies without a platform team