About Andrew Starkey.
Over thirty years working with Sage 200. Accredited Sage consultant. Published author on Sage 200 and AI security. Based in West Sussex.
Why we run on Microsoft Azure.
A few years ago, my own business got hit by ransomware. We didn’t lose the business - we recovered.
You don’t take security seriously until you’ve lived through an attack. I hadn’t. That’s the gap mybusiness cloud is built to close.
But that experience was the reason mybusiness cloud fully moved to Microsoft Azure, with all the security benefits that come with Azure.
I spent the next year thinking about what I wished I’d had on the day it happened: the kind of always-on security a small business can’t realistically build itself, the backups that get genuinely tested, and a team that knows the system well enough to put it back together quickly.
Around 90 UK businesses host with us today, with hundreds hosted over the years. Sage 200 is our bread and butter - around 90% of our customers run it - and we also host Sage 50, with non-Sage hosting on the horizon where the same dedicated, UK-only model fits.
We didn’t lose the business - we recovered. Andrew Starkey · Founder
Thirty years working with Sage.
I started working with Sage software in the mid-1990s. Implementations, customisations, troubleshooting, integrations. Most of my career has been hands-on with Sage 200 - its data model, its quirks, its add-ons, the things that go wrong on a Monday morning and the things that go right when the setup is correct.
That's not a marketing line. It's the reason a customer can ring us with a Sage 200 IT question and talk to someone who already knows the shape of the answer.