Managed platform pricing

Custom software, hosted and operated with one accountable partner.

For businesses that need a serious website, web app, API, integration, or internal workflow without becoming a cloud operations team.

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One owner

Snow Tree is the first call for the app, platform, releases, incidents, and vendor coordination.

Real cloud bill

Infrastructure stays visible by project, environment, service, storage, traffic, database, and backup usage.

No hostage stack

Code, domains, credentials, database exports, and deployment state stay portable enough to hand off.

Plans

Minimum monthly management plus transparent cloud usage.

These are management minimums. Shared tiers keep partner costs down by reusing Snow Tree platform capacity; dedicated tiers separate the client into their own cloud boundary.

Shared

Managed site runtime

$950/mo starting

For a serious business site, landing system, or light app that can run on Snow Tree's shared production platform.

  • Shared GKE/CDN platform, TLS, static assets, and domain coordination
  • Monthly platform maintenance, dependency review, and cost report
  • Uptime checks, backup verification where data exists, and business-hours triage

Shared plus

Managed partner app

$1,750/mo starting

For a custom app, API, integration, database-backed workflow, or customer portal that can share platform infrastructure.

  • Everything in Shared, plus release support, auth, database operations, and secrets
  • Weekly operational review of errors, cost movement, backups, certificates, and dependency risk
  • Allocated usage reporting by namespace, service labels, storage, logs, and high-variance managed resources

Dedicated

Independent cluster

$3,000/mo starting + cloud costs

For clients that need their own isolated GCP project, GKE cluster boundary, dev/prod environments, and authentication systems.

  • Git workspace, initial platform setup, GitOps-managed infrastructure, and environment bootstrap included
  • Dedicated dev/prod posture, observability, rollback paths, secrets, auth, and backup baseline
  • Provider costs pass through separately with the client's own billing boundary and budget alerts

Billing model

Predictable management. Granular infrastructure.

1. Platform management minimum

The monthly minimum reserves Snow Tree for operations, routine maintenance, release support, monitoring review, backup checks, vendor coordination, and incident triage.

2. Shared usage allocation

On shared clusters, per-client cloud usage is estimated from namespaces, service labels, storage, logs, egress, and any separately provisioned managed resources. That keeps lower tiers affordable without pretending every shared platform dollar maps perfectly to one client.

3. Dedicated pass-through

When a client needs audited cloud pass-through or hard isolation, the dedicated tier moves them into their own project and cluster boundary. New features, migrations, redesigns, and major infrastructure changes are still scoped before they start.

Included operations

What Snow Tree owns every month.

Runtime

Right-sized hosting

Static CDN, managed services, or GKE Gateway-backed apps depending on what the workload actually needs.

Data

Database and backup posture

PostgreSQL-first data modeling, migrations, routine backup checks, and exportable data when the business needs it.

Operations

Monitoring and maintenance

Health checks, logs, alerts, dependency/runtime updates, certificate checks, and plain-English monthly reporting.

Security

Practical security baseline

TLS, headers, secret management, least-privilege access, dependency review, and incident notes without enterprise theater.

Spend

Budget guardrails

Cloud budgets, alert thresholds, service tagging, and review notes so traffic spikes and product changes are visible early.

Handoff

Portable by design

Git-backed source, documented runtime assumptions, exportable data, and clear ownership if the business later brings ops in-house.

Cloud planning ranges

Usage stays visible before it becomes expensive.

Shared business site

$25-$150/mo cloud planning range

Allocated shared-platform usage for static assets, CDN, TLS, DNS, small forms, or a lightweight server runtime.

Shared app with database

$100-$600/mo cloud planning range

Web app/API, managed database, backups, logs, identity, release environment, and normal traffic on shared capacity.

Dedicated cluster

$750-$3,500+/mo cloud planning range

Independent GCP project, GKE cluster, dev/prod environments, identity, observability, backups, provider support, and stricter retention.

Planning ranges are not quotes. Actual cloud usage depends on traffic, storage, database size, backups, logs, regions, provider support, and required uptime posture.

Start with a short brief

Send the app, site, or system Snow Tree should operate.

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Useful context

See the work behind the offer.

Snow Tree runs its own product portfolio with the same operating discipline: .NET Razor web surfaces, PostgreSQL, GitOps, Cloud CDN assets, and GKE Gateway routing where Kubernetes is warranted.

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