From startup to a million-euro business
When meinBafög started ten years ago, one thing was clear: growing the business would take a dependable hosting partner. Instead of expensive hardware and complicated setups, the company relied on centron from the outset – with managed virtual servers, a stable infrastructure and personal support.
- Sector – education and funding platform for BAföG applications
- Location – Cologne, Germany
- With centron for – around 10 years
- Growth – from €80,000 in annual revenue to a million-euro business
meinBafög
A digital platform that helps students apply for BAföG, the German federal education grant – on centron infrastructure since day one.
- Built on managed virtual servers from the very beginning
- High demands on stability and uptime
- Particular importance placed on a German server location and ISO certifications
- A close, genuinely collaborative partnership
When hosting was still complicated and expensive
When meinBafög was founded around ten years ago, modern cloud services such as AWS were not yet available. Even setting up a simple test server was time-consuming and barely affordable for a young startup. Just €40 a month for a dedicated server was a genuine hurdle.
At the same time it was clear that a managed approach was needed: maintenance work was not to sit with the in-house team but to be outsourced dependably. Searching for a hosting partner with a German location, ISO certifications and fair terms, meinBafög came across centron – and laid the cornerstone of a collaboration that is still going strong today.
€40 a month was a hurdle
For a young startup with no resources for its own administration, even a simple dedicated server was a serious financial decision – an affordable managed approach was essential.
From the first steps through to scaling up
The road from a young startup to an established platform with revenue in the millions was not without its hurdles for meinBafög. Alongside the limited financial means of the early days, technical bottlenecks and the complex administration of a growing infrastructure had to be mastered as well.
A limited budget in the founding phase
- Even modest monthly server costs were a hurdle
- No resources for in-house maintenance or administration
- A need for a managed solution that stayed affordable
Technical hurdles in running servers
- Long lead times to set up test or development servers
- A lack of flexibility at traditional hosting providers
- High demands on stability and uptime from the very beginning
Growing complexity as success increased
- Managing several contracts and servers became hard to keep track of
- Consolidation was needed to bring costs down
- A need for a partner who offers solutions rather than pointing out limits
From challenge to success story
In centron, meinBafög found the partner able to respond flexibly to individual requirements right from the start. Managed virtual servers and personal support removed the financial barriers to entry, simplified technical processes considerably and consolidated the growing infrastructure into something manageable.
Today meinBafög benefits from a stable, future-proof hosting environment – and from the certainty that suitable solutions will always be found quickly for new projects too.
“centron looks for solutions instead of simply saying it cannot be done. That attitude convinced us from the very beginning and is still with us today.”
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