Owner's Operating Handbook
BOSS · Modular Data Center · by Seven
Your hardware. Your software. Your data. Your intelligence. We're paid to keep all four running exactly as they should — and never to own a line of it.
BOSS is a modular data center — a small, self-contained cluster of real machines that lives where you want it and belongs to you. Not a slice of someone else's cloud you rent until the bill changes. A private rack, built for your business, that you can see, touch, and grow.
A base cluster you can add to — more compute, more storage, a GPU, off-site copies — one module at a time, on your schedule. The rack you buy this year is the rack you expand next year, not the one you replace.
The hardware is on your books. The software is open-source — no per-seat license that holds your data hostage. The data never leaves your control. If you ever part ways with us, everything stays with you.
A resident intelligence and a human crew keep it healthy — backups proven, updates applied, problems caught before you feel them. You own the machine; you don't have to babysit it.
Every BOSS ships as a working cluster on a fully open-source stack. No proprietary lock-in anywhere in the base — what runs your business is software you could run yourself, kept by people who do it for a living.
| Layer | What you get | Why it's there |
|---|---|---|
| Hardware | A quorate cluster — three compute nodes + a dedicated backup node | Quorate means it survives a node going down without taking your business with it. |
| Virtualization | Proxmox VE FOSS | Run your apps, desktops, and services as virtual machines you control. |
| Backup | Proxmox Backup Server FOSS | Deduplicated, verified backups on a separate node — restores are drilled, not assumed. |
| Private network | Encrypted overlay mesh FOSS | Reach your rack securely from anywhere; no ports thrown open to the internet. |
| Identity | IDConnect single sign-on | One verified login for your people — the door every other service checks. |
| Monitoring | Health & status watch | Continuous checks; you and we see the same live picture of the unit. |
| Intelligence | A resident BI, paired to your business | Knows your environment, holds the thread, acts only where you've said it may. |
The base covers most businesses. When you need more, you add a module — not a migration. Each one drops into the cluster you already own and shows up on the same handbook page.
More room for virtual machines and headroom for growth. Add capacity without re-architecting anything.
Grow the pool as your files, records, and history accumulate. Pay for space when you need it.
A second, geographically separate copy of everything — immutable by default. The difference between an incident and a disaster.
Local acceleration for private AI — your models, your data, on your own hardware. Nothing leaves the rack.
Extended, low-cost retention for the records you must keep for years but rarely touch.
A digital-asset library with fast public delivery — for teams whose work is images, video, and brand files.
Owning the hardware is the easy half. Keeping it healthy — backups proven, updates safe, the intelligence behaving, someone answering when something's wrong — is the relationship. It's all included, at one price, for life.
The lights stay on and the backups are real.
The intelligence earns its keep.
It belongs to you, and it stays that way.
$99 a month. For life.
Your price never goes up. As our costs fall, it only ever comes down — that isn't a slogan, it's written into how we run. The savings of getting better at this belong to you, not to us.
And the honest version: we just want you to be a happy client, and we'll do what it takes to keep you one. When the thing we're paid for is that your world keeps working, your happiness and our incentive point the same way.
$99 a month, for life. Plus your hardware from $1,499, one-time — reclaimed enterprise gear, and it's yours. No setup fee, no per-seat creep, no surprise line items.
Everything in §4, included. Add a module only if you want more.
The price you start at is the most you'll ever pay — it can only go down. Leave any time, no penalty.
A complete private cluster from professionally reclaimed enterprise hardware + 3D-printed parts.
A real data center for a fraction of new — and far lighter on the planet. The build & setup labor is on us; you own the result outright.
Most small businesses rent this same capability from a dozen vendors — scattered, rented, and climbing every year. Here's the rough shape:
| What a BOSS includes | What you'd rent instead | Typical / mo |
|---|---|---|
| Servers / compute for your apps | Cloud VMs (AWS / Azure) | $150–500 |
| Verified, off-site backups | Managed backup (Datto / Veeam) | $50–200 |
| Private network & secure remote access | VPN / ZTNA | $50–150 |
| Single sign-on / identity | Okta / JumpCloud (per seat) | $50–250 |
| Monitoring & uptime | Datadog / managed monitoring | $50–300 |
| File store / media library | Dropbox / Workspace storage | $50–150 |
| Someone who answers when it breaks | MSP retainer | $500–2,500 |
| An intelligence that knows your business | AI seats + integration nobody finishes | $100–500+ |
| BOSS — all of it, integrated, owned | one price, one relationship | $99 / mo |
Illustrative market ranges, not a quote — your numbers will differ. The point isn't the exact total; it's the shape: you're not paying $99 for less. You're paying $99, and owning more.
We don't rent you access to your own business. The four things that matter are yours, and our job is to keep them working — not to hold them. If the day ever comes that you run the rack yourself or hand it to someone else, it all goes with you, intact.
And there's a quieter promise underneath that one. As faked email, faked voice, and faked video get cheap, the safest place to deal with us becomes the one where both ends are proven. Every message and every change runs through your portal, where your identity — and ours — is verified. A spoofed email can't move your money or change your setup; only you, signed in, can.
The most secure channel between you and your data is the one where both ends are provably who they say they are.
Pick a base, add the modules you need, and choose a stewardship tier. You'll get a written quote — and nothing gets built until you approve it.
Start a build Talk to us firstConfigure → written quote → you approve → we build → you're live