Hybrid & cloud infrastructure — solo practice
NanoCry helps companies with real infrastructure move off the hypervisors, servers, and licensing terms that are quietly becoming liabilities — and runs what replaces them, in the cloud, on‑prem, or both. Not a helpdesk. Not a per‑seat MSP. A single infrastructure practitioner who has racked the hardware and holds the credential.
A published rate card, on this page. No proposal required to see what things cost.
Your ticket doesn't go into a queue behind forty other clients — it comes to me, and I publish my response times. My rate card is on this page. You will never get a surprise invoice.
Paid assessments that convert into fixed‑fee modernization projects, and the good ones become honest, boundaried retainers — 8×5 coverage, a bought‑in 24/7 layer for the events that genuinely can't wait.
Tier‑1 helpdesk. A 24/7 response commitment one person can't honor. Hourly billing with no scope. Reselling licenses for a margin that doesn't cover the risk.
The window that's open right now
Your hypervisor licensing is repricing and your server OS goes unsupported at the same time. Almost nobody is positioned to speak to both halves of that conversation — cloud‑native consultants don't know hypervisors, and hypervisor shops can't architect a landing zone.
01 — VMware / Broadcom
02 — Windows Server 2016
This is a window, not a permanent line of business — the panic‑migration cohort clears by 2027–28. Right now it's the fastest, most quantified conversation to have.
Service catalog
Deliberately narrow. Narrowness is what makes an engagement legible, scoped, and referable — and what keeps a one‑person practice from being pulled in five directions at once.
The wedge. Paid discovery — never free.
| Infrastructure Modernization Assessment | $3,500 | 1–2 weeks |
| AWS Well‑Architected Review | $5,000 | 1–2 weeks |
| Cloud Cost & Reliability Review | $2,500 | 1 week |
| Security & Backup Baseline Review | $2,500 | 1 week |
Every assessment ends in a prioritized list — items 1–3 you'll likely fix yourself, items 4+ become the project scope. Useful even if we never work together again.
The revenue. Fixed‑fee, scoped, no SLA obligation.
| VMware exit — Hyper‑V / Azure Local | $18k–40k | 3–8 wks |
| VMware exit — Proxmox / XCP‑ng | $15k–35k | 3–8 wks |
| Server 2016/2019 refresh + Azure Arc ESU | $12k–30k | 3–6 wks |
| AWS Landing Zone / Control Tower | $12k–25k | 40–80 hrs |
| Backup / DR build + verified failover | $8k–18k | 2–4 wks |
| Lift‑and‑shift migration, <50 servers | $15k–40k | 4–8 wks |
Scoped off the assessment. Remote, schedulable — the kind of work that doesn't wake anyone up.
The asset. Two tiers — an honest 8×5, plus a bought‑in 24/7 layer.
$2,500–4,000/mo
Managed Infrastructure
$4,500–7,500/mo
Managed Infrastructure + Secure
No numeric 24/7 response commitment — one person can't honor that, and the industry data agrees. The events that genuinely can't wait are covered by a real, bought‑in SOC.
Why the overlap matters
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Every engagement reaches the person who does the work. No tier‑1 triage, no ticket sitting behind forty other clients.
02
Almost nobody in this industry publishes a rate card. This one is on the page — a defensible commitment, not a negotiating opener.
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Projects are priced off a real assessment, not an hourly clock that rewards ambiguity. Effective rate is checked on every job, both ways.
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An 8×5 commitment that's actually kept, with a real remedy attached, and a bought‑in 24/7 layer for the one class of event that can't wait until morning.
Start here
the fastest way to find out what it actually costs is a $3,500 Infrastructure Modernization Assessment: a full inventory, a licensing exposure model, and a prioritized 18‑month roadmap. Or start with a 30‑minute call, no charge, to see if it's a fit.