Insourcing, Autonomy, and Independence

Published on December 12, 2025 in Cloud

Hello everyone,

As some of you already know, ScalarX operates with very few external technical dependencies (SaaS, and so on).

Recent events around the world (recent incidents involving AWS, Cloudflare, and others), combined with the current political environment, seem to bring us a little closer every day to a loss of individual freedoms and privacy, both personal and professional.

For more than 25 years, I have always worked to build my companies while preserving security and privacy as much as possible, along with the autonomy and independence of both my organizations and those of our clients.

Where We Stand Today

ScalarX is no exception to this rule—quite the opposite: legal and technical structures across several continents, no external shareholders, no exclusive supplier contracts, and a decentralized, multipoint infrastructure operations and maintenance model. Everything was designed with this objective in mind.

Services that directly handle critical data, such as technical support, have always been 100% in-house.

However, a few external services remain. Most are noncritical and depend on third-party providers or vendors (for example, Trello, our accounting system, CRM, SolarWinds, and others).

We will retain some of these services, such as Pingdom, because they provide an independent source of evidence when ScalarX and a client need to assess an incident.

We are not dependent on these services: not only can they be moved to other providers, but we also have internal interactive tools that allow us to surface this information without “breaking” the decentralized nature of monitoring and operational oversight.

What Comes Next

For others, such as Trello or the CRM, we have begun bringing these functions in-house to remove these dependencies. For us, this is the only way to guarantee technically, and not just legally, that no one is “playing” with data that could potentially concern them.

We are using this work to test and certify several of these tools with StackX. In a second phase, we will be able to offer solutions for those who want to deploy them.

At the same time, we are also working on a hardware solution that will allow you to create independent, automated local backups of your hosted sites and applications, in addition to the included backups.

Have an excellent weekend, everyone!

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Christophe Casalegno
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