FortiGate firewalls in Latvia: supply, setup and management

CloudHosting SIA is an authorized Fortinet partner in Latvia, entitled to sell FortiGate appliances and UTM licences, and it buys them through the official channel rather than a grey market. That means three things for you. The hardware is genuine and the licences register cleanly to your company, which matters on the day you need support from Fortinet itself. The full manufacturer warranty applies, and we handle warranty questions instead of pointing you to a third party. And the company that sells you the firewall is the same one that configures it, watches it and keeps its firmware current. For a price on a specific model, write to us for a quote.

CloudHosting sells FortiGate hardware on its own too: if your IT team prefers to run the firewall, we supply the appliance and the licences you choose and hand everything over, the box, the paperwork and the licence details needed to activate it. Configuration, monitoring and ongoing management are separate optional services, and skipping them changes neither the hardware price nor the warranty. You can also start hardware-only and add our management later if your team gets stretched, or ask for a one-time setup and then take over. Tell us the split you prefer and we shape the offer around it.

CloudHosting usually fits a small office with a FortiGate 40F and a larger network with more users and heavier filtering with a FortiGate 100F, with the 60F and 80F in between. The choice comes down to a few practical questions: how many users work behind the firewall, how many offices you have, how much traffic passes through and which protections you switch on, since inspection features add load. We ask about your setup first and recommend the model that fits, without overselling, because an oversized box wastes budget and an undersized one slows the whole office down. Describe your network and we name a specific model.

CloudHosting configures site-to-site VPN on FortiGate as one of its most common jobs: encrypted tunnels link your offices, so staff in one location reach servers, printers and internal systems in another as if everything sat on one local network, without exposing those systems to the internet. We plan the addressing so the sites do not clash, build and test the tunnels on each appliance, and document what was set up. When you open a new office later, the same design gains one more location instead of being rebuilt. If some sites already run other equipment, mention it early so we can check how the pieces fit.

CloudHosting keeps a FortiGate updated when you take its management service: we watch the appliance, apply firmware and security updates and adjust rules when your network changes, so nothing quietly falls out of date. If you run the firewall yourselves, the picture splits in two: the UTM subscription refreshes the threat databases automatically, but firmware upgrades, rule changes and health checks remain your team's job. Updates matter more on a firewall than on most equipment, because it faces the internet directly and known holes are probed quickly. Whichever path you pick, agree on it before installation so responsibility is clear from day one.

CloudHosting supplies FortiGate, Fortinet's next-generation firewall (NGFW), which does more than a traditional firewall that only decides which ports and addresses may talk to each other. FortiGate inspects the traffic itself: it blocks intrusion attempts, scans files for viruses, filters web content and controls which applications may use your connection. All of this happens in one appliance at the edge of your network, in front of every device behind it, so laptops, servers and phones get the same protection without installing anything on them. It does not replace endpoint antivirus or backups; it complements them.

CloudHosting quotes a FortiGate as two parts, the appliance model and the UTM licences attached to it, so there is no single list price. A small office is usually fine with a FortiGate 40F or 60F, while a larger network needs an 80F or 100F, and the licence term you choose changes the figure as well. As an authorized Fortinet partner we quote from the official channel with the full manufacturer warranty included, and the quote can cover the setup as well, not just the box. Send us a short description of your network, users and offices, and we return a concrete quote for a specific model and licence, without VAT.

CloudHosting usually recommends buying the UTM or ATP licence together with the appliance, because that subscription is what keeps FortiGate's protection current. The appliance enforces your rules, but the intrusion prevention signatures, antivirus definitions and web filtering categories come from databases that must update continuously, since new threats appear daily. The subscription delivers those updates automatically for as long as it runs. Without it the firewall still works, but only as a static filter: it applies the rules you wrote and recognises nothing newer. For most companies that gap defeats the point of an NGFW, so renew the licence on time rather than letting protection lapse.

CloudHosting can take over the management of a FortiGate you bought elsewhere and renew its licences by serial number, whoever sold the original ones. We start by reviewing the current configuration, firmware version and licence dates, and tell you what we would change and why before touching anything. From then on the appliance is looked after like one we supplied: updates, rule changes and monitoring under the same arrangement. If the box is too small for today's traffic or no longer supported by the manufacturer, we say so openly and quote a replacement, and the decision stays yours. To start, send us the model, the serial numbers and a short description of your network.