Hosting, off-site backup storage, monitoring and the tooling that makes a custom module maintainable. Each one with the reason, because the reason is the useful part.
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Odoo hosting
Odoo’s own hosting, with staging branches and backups handled for you. The default answer for an installation that does not want to run a server.
Where we would put a customer who wants Odoo managed and has no sysadmin.
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Cloud servers
A plain virtual server for an on-premise-style install you control. Cheaper than managed hosting and you own the patching.
For an installation with somebody in-house who is comfortable with Linux.
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Backup and recovery
Storage with its own credentials, somewhere the Odoo server cannot reach — which is the whole point of a backup copy.
The off-site copy the health check asks about. A backup on the same machine survives a mistake, not the machine.
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Monitoring
Tells you your Odoo is down, and tells you before a certificate expires rather than after.
Pairs with Database Health Monitor, which watches the inside rather than the outside.
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Development tools
Collects tracebacks from a running instance so a recurring error is a ticket rather than an anecdote.
For an installation with custom modules under active development.
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Off-site backups, health monitoring and audit logging are modules in our own catalogue. A hosting recommendation is worth having; so is knowing which parts you do not need to buy from somebody else.
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