About Lithus
Infrastructure engineers who run managed private clouds for SMEs. Operating since 2007. Infrastructure hosted primarily in Germany.
No-BS Infrastructure
We are infrastructure engineers. We build and operate managed Kubernetes clusters on bare-metal servers in German data centres. Our clients are SMEs and software houses that need production-grade infrastructure without hiring a platform team.
We do not have a sales team. We do not sponsor conferences. We spend our time on uptime, performance, and keeping our clients’ infrastructure boring, in the best possible way. If something breaks at 3 AM, we fix it. That is the job.
One client, a climate data analysis company, came to us from public cloud with unpredictable costs and growing spend. We migrated them to managed bare-metal. The result: predictable billing, better performance, and a team they can reach directly when something needs attention.
Operational Ownership
We own uptime for the full stack. Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Kafka, networking, storage, observability. If we deployed it, we carry the pager for it. When something goes wrong, we get the alert, we diagnose it, and we fix it. You get a postmortem.
We own the platform, you own the application. No finger-pointing, no ambiguous responsibility. If your pods are crashing because of a node issue, that is on us. If they are crashing because of a memory leak in your code, we will tell you and set up temporary mitigations to keep things running in the meantime.
Direct Access
When you work with Lithus, you work with the same engineers who built the platform. There is no account manager buffer, no offshore handoff, no "let me check with the team."
We are honest about timelines and realistic about scope. Hardware takes 4–6 weeks. Migrations play out over a couple of months depending on complexity. If something shifts, you hear it from us directly with a revised plan, not a vague status update.
ISO 27001
We are working towards ISO 27001 certification. Our information security management system covers access control, incident response, change management, and supplier oversight. Hetzner's data centres are already ISO 27001 certified and run on 100% renewable energy. For clients with compliance requirements, we provide documentation on request.
Where We Deploy
Most of our clusters run on Hetzner dedicated servers in Germany — ISO 27001 certified data centres with redundant power, cooling, and networking. The hardware-to-cost ratio is the best in Europe, and we work with their custom solutions team to provide multi-AZ and multi-region clusters.
For our clients, this means: EU-sovereign infrastructure, predictable hardware costs, and no dependence on US hyperscaler pricing decisions. Your data stays in the EU, processed on hardware we control, managed by engineers in our team.
We also deploy on other providers when a workload needs a specific region or configuration. The stack and operational model remain the same.