What things cost, why builds break, and how to buy this
27 articles, all of them written out of systems we run or repairs we were called into. Where a number appears, the method and the date are next to it.
Starting out
For owners who have not bought this before. No vocabulary required.
Case study
Systems we built, what they do in numbers, and what was hard.
Pricing
Real numbers from a market that hides them.
Rescue
Playbooks for when the build broke.
Buying guide
How to buy this without getting burned.
Engineering
How these things are built, and how they fail.
Prices quoted inside these articles stay in dollars. They are other companies' published list prices, read on the dates given, and restating them in pounds or euros would put words in those vendors' mouths. Our own prices follow the currency you have chosen, on the pricing page.
If the problem is still there after reading
No call to book. The written diagnostic, from $500£400€450, finds the root cause in two business days, from a log and a sentence about what should have happened.