Bee Positive Coaching – Customer Showcase
Overview
Bee Positive Coaching is an SME providing coaching services to individuals and groups. The business relies heavily on content sharing, collaboration, and digital communication, and they prefer tools that are simple, reliable, and easy to operate. They are comfortable using technology and do not want the burden of managing it themselves.
They previously worked with a hosting provider that oversold unnecessary services and created more complexity than value. Their request to us was clear:
“We just want something that works. We do not want to learn 100 new tools.”
Their Challenges
Before partnering with The Nerdy Cloud Guy, Bee Positive Coaching faced several issues:
- No unified solution for domains, website hosting, and email
- No secure, remotely accessible virtual desktop
- A need for a content management platform to support coaching and business operations
- High hosting costs for services they did not use
- Too many tools, creating confusion and inefficiency
- Frustration with constant learning requirements and technical overhead
What We Delivered
We designed a fully managed cloud environment tailored to their needs, requiring zero technical effort from the customer.
- Fully Managed Cloud Hosting
- End-to-end management of domain, website, and email hosting
- Cloudflare security, caching, DNS optimisation, and SSL
- Complete DNS cleanup with aligned SPF, DKIM, and DMARC
- Secure Virtual Desktop (AWS WorkSpaces)
- Always-available, secure remote access for business operations
- High-Capacity Nextcloud Platform
- Hosted Nextcloud instance with multiple terabytes of storage
- Centralised storage for coaching materials, business files, and content
- Significantly more cost-effective than Google Drive or Microsoft 365
- Automation with Flow Runner
- Automated social media posting using our in-house Flow Runner engine
- Scheduled tasks are running quietly in the background
- Security & Reliability Enhancements
- Platform hardening across all components
- Real-time monitoring and uptime tracking
- Regular internal service health checks
- Built to function seamlessly, allowing Bee Positive Coaching to focus entirely on its clients.
Technical Stack
The solution combines reliable cloud services and internal automation tools:
- Wasabi S3
- Cloudflare
- AWS
- Nextcloud
- WordPress
- Flow Runner (TNCG internal tool)
Architecture (High-Level)
A simplified overview:
- Cloudflare handles all DNS, SSL, and security.
- WordPress provides its website layer.
- AWS WorkSpaces delivers a remote-access desktop.
- Nextcloud offers high-capacity content management backed by Wasabi S3.
- Flow Runner and Lambda handle automated workflows.
- Monitoring ensures high uptime and reliability.
Outcome
Bee Positive Coaching now benefits from:
- A stable, secure, fully managed cloud environment
- Predictable low cost without unnecessary services
- Reliable file management at scale
- Automated social content workflows
- Clean and secure DNS and email configurations
- A single provider for all cloud needs
In their words:
“Without Nextcloud, I do not know how I would run my business.”
Bee Positive Coaching runs on a dependable cloud foundation that supports their growth without adding complexity.