How NorthPeak Software Reduced Infrastructure Costs by 35%
About the client
NorthPeak Software is a European development company building SaaS products and web applications for small and medium-sized businesses.
Most of its customers are located in Germany and other European markets.
The company’s infrastructure supports production applications, databases, staging environments, CI/CD pipelines, and internal development services.
Challenge
As NorthPeak Software’s projects grew, the company encountered a common challenge with public cloud infrastructure: infrastructure spending was increasing faster than actual workload requirements.
The team needed consistent computing resources, fast NVMe storage, and enough RAM to support several applications and databases.
Scaling cloud instances, however, resulted in increasingly high monthly bills.
Another important requirement was cost predictability. NorthPeak Software wanted to know its infrastructure costs several months in advance instead of continuously adjusting resources and monitoring cloud consumption.
Solution
Together with Unihost, the company moved its predictable production workloads to dedicated infrastructure in Europe.
NorthPeak Software selected Unihost OVE-X4 dedicated servers, built around the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X platform.
Server configuration included 12 CPU cores by 4.4 GHz, 64 GB DDR5 ECC RAM, 2x 512 GB NVMe drives, and a 1 Gbps unlimited connection. This combination provided high CPU performance for application workloads, fast storage for databases, and sufficient memory to consolidate several services on the same physical server.
The servers now host:
- Docker-based production applications;
- PostgreSQL databases;
- Redis;
- CI/CD runners;
- monitoring services;
- staging environments.
Rather than completely abandoning the public cloud, NorthPeak Software adopted a hybrid model. Specialized and backup workloads remained in the cloud, while predictable, resource-intensive services were moved to dedicated servers.
Results
After the migration, infrastructure costs for the company’s core workloads decreased by approximately 35%.
At the same time, NorthPeak Software gained access to more CPU and RAM resources and eliminated much of the variability associated with its previous cloud bill.
The move also simplified budgeting: the cost of the company’s primary compute infrastructure is now largely fixed from month to month.
“Dedicated infrastructure turned out to be a much better fit for our predictable workloads. We gained more resources while reducing our monthly infrastructure costs.”
What’s next
NorthPeak Software plans to continue scaling its dedicated infrastructure, with a separate database server and a secondary European location under consideration.
Results at a glance: 35% lower infrastructure costs, more CPU and RAM, predictable monthly spending
