Hosting Providers and Networks

This page is for hosting companies, fiber and broadband networks, coworking companies, online communities, and other operators that want to offer business software to the customers they already serve.

Why operators add software

Selling only VMs, rack space, or bandwidth means competing mostly on price, often against hyperscalers. Software changes the conversation. A customer who buys email, file sharing, video meetings, and CRM from you is buying an outcome, not a commodity, and is more likely to stay. Software also drives infrastructure use: each Core runs on a VM, so every software customer is also an infrastructure customer.

Your customers are ready for it. Small businesses want to get away from per-seat licensing, development teams want integrated toolchains, and households want privacy and security features with their broadband.

What you can offer

Anything in the Software Library, sold individually or in bundles. For example:

• Business productivity: email, calendars, file sharing, and office documents (Nextcloud), chat (Element), video meetings (Jitsi), and scheduling (Cal.com).
• Business applications: CRM (EspoCRM), help desk (FreeScout), project tracking (Plane), no-code databases (Baserow), and knowledge bases (BookStack).
• Websites and marketing: WordPress, Listmonk, Mautic, and privacy-friendly analytics.
• Security: password management (Vaultwarden) and private VPN networks (Headscale).
• Development: Git hosting (Gitea), databases, workflow automation (n8n), and monitoring. See Bundles.

How it works

1. Choose the Platform tier. It’s designed for operators deploying more than 100 installations within 3 months, at $10 per installation per month. See Plans and Pricing.
2. Plan your rollout. The Platform tier includes a kickoff call where Federated helps you plan the offering, bundles, and support model.
3. Connect your store. Your customers buy from your existing store or eCommerce system, at prices you set. Your system calls the Provisioner API to create, change, and delete Cores on your infrastructure.
4. Brand it as yours. White-label and custom branding let you present the software under your own name, and one dashboard shows all your installations.
5. Choose what Federated handles. Federated keeps the software updated. Add Backups, Monitoring, or Customer Service to the Cores where you want Federated to handle them, or provide those services yourself.

Your technical team gets support in a shared Matrix channel, with a response within 6 hours, backed by an SLA.

The economics

You pay Federated $10 per installation per month on the Platform tier, plus any add-ons you choose. You set your own retail price and keep the difference, along with the infrastructure revenue for the VM each Core runs on.

Example. A broadband customer pays $70/month for a 1 Gbps fiber line. You add a business bundle (office suite, email, video meetings, CRM, help desk, and password management) for $150/month. Your cost for that Core is $10, or $55 with Backups, Monitoring, and Customer Service, plus the VM it runs on. The customer’s monthly revenue to you more than triples.

For comparison, a business on Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 often pays over $100 per seat per month across all its subscriptions. Every Core has unlimited users, so your customers can grow without their software bill growing.

Who buys it

Federated Core is used by dental practices, law offices, churches and seminaries, schools, government bodies, event organizers, tradespeople, software developers, startups, and families, across every continent except Antarctica.

Try it first

Create an account on the Free tier and provision a Core on one of your own VMs to see how it works. See How to Start. When you’re ready to plan a rollout, email info@federated.computer.