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👋 Hello from Totus

Many prospects were curious about how we do things at Totus so we decided to start writing about us. How we achieve the lowest costs while maintaining six nines of uptime with the lowest latency and a friendly approach.

  • We aim for six nines: 99.9999% uptime. Less than 32 seconds per calendar year (So far ... we are there, but not legally binding)
  • Low latency: global network
  • Cost Plus Pricing: lowest possible costs for you

We will be exploring these and many more in follow-up articles, including:

  • Language Libraries for Totus, so easy to integrate
  • Platform No Single Point of Failure
  • Data-center redundancy
  • "we closed your account" redundancy
  • Servers redundancy
  • Realtime monitoring with sub-minute preemptive alerts
  • Continuous Releases and Improvements without Downtimes
  • Cost Plus Pricing Models
  • Host Based Intrusion Detection Systems
  • ... and more.

The School of Athens by Raphael, depicting philosophers in discussion The School of Athens by Raphael (c. 1509-1511)

A Solid Alternative to Traditional Big Tech

There is nothing wrong with Amazon, Azure or Google Cloud, but we believe online services would benefit from less concentration and more humane businesses, a less corporate, more down-to-earth approach.

A Totus Core Value is that you can Talk With Us

Sometimes some APIs are custom-made for our clients, but we aim to have generally available APIs ... We recognise that one size does not fit all.

We have heard hundreds of horror stories about massive bills, accounts closed in silence without recourse or explanation. So many stories that it has become a dark internet meme.

You, like most companies (including ourselves) cannot afford to have a battalion of lawyers to deal with the "Enterprise Cloud Provider" in order to get answers. We know what it is to build on sand, even if they tell us they are rock solid, like in October 2025 both Amazon and Azure mass failures for almost 24 hours, each.

We have built at Totus a rock-solid platform without the enterprise part of it. We will elaborate in the following articles about this. But we can withstand: multiple datacenters closures, (including our accounts getting closed), hardware failures, network failures, software failures (we monitor all APIs and services constantly and we can come back to previous states instantly), etc. Overall, we know we can provide "enterprise" quality (questionable nowadays what "enterprise" quality is) at start-up costs.

Totus Core Values

  • Easy to understand, it is simple but not simpler
  • Accessible: you can talk with us
  • We solve complicated stuff for you, non-senior devs are happy with us
  • We encourage "Nocode" or "little code"

Those are our values; they are simple, and on top, we charge as little as possible.

Cost Plus Pricing

For each endpoint or service we do a precise calculation of how much it costs us to provide one unit of the service, i.e. an API call, a DNS zone. In this calculation we include supporting the service, pro-rata cost of development, compute and networking costs, etc. Once we achieve a final cost number per unit charged, we a add fixed percentage fee (our profit) to it, and that is what we charge. No more, no less. Math.

We do not charge based on utility, i.e. some APIs might be unique and no competitor is around providing them. We could potentially charge higher rates for it, but we do not engage in price gouging. We sell volume, we sell the shovels you use for building your business.

The basic account is prepaid, you are in total control, no surprise invoices. We have the option for postpay accounts.

The Future is AI

We build the building blocks you connect with AI together. We are creating the tools the AIs will use to code for you. We aim to be as humane as possible with our business dealings, but ironically our products are likely to be picked by Artificial Intelligences for their simplification of their workflow and to allow them to produce higher-level software.

You don't want your AI to spend hours implementing a video codec, or audio compressor, you use FFMPEG or a well-established one, in a similar fashion your AI leverages Totus building blocks (like Legos) to implement higher level systems. Therefore, we focus on services APIs. Also, the APIs will have to run somewhere, isn't?

🙏Thank you

For being around and reading this, for showing interest. The articles are going to be amazing and you will enjoy them very much, we will try to share as much as possible our secret recipes.

The Totus Team 🧩

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