Server setup and deployment.
Infrastructure set up properly by someone who has been on call for it.
I ran a UK hosting company with hardware colocated in a London data centre, which means I have been responsible for machines at three in the morning. That experience shapes how I set up servers: monitored, backed up, documented, and configured so that failures are visible and recoverable rather than mysterious.
What’s included
- Linux server provisioning and hardening
- Web stack setup: Apache or Nginx, PHP, Node, databases
- TLS certificates with automatic renewal
- Deployment pipelines with rollback
- Staging environments matching production
- Monitoring, alerting and log management
- Backups with tested, verified restores
Deployment should be boring
If deploying is manual and stressful, it happens rarely, which makes each release larger and riskier. A pipeline that deploys reliably and rolls back cleanly changes how a team works far more than the time it saves.
Backups you have never restored are not backups
I test restores rather than assuming them. An untested backup is a hope, and the moment you discover it is incomplete is exactly the moment you cannot afford to.
Common questions
Which hosting do you recommend?
Depends on the workload. A well-configured VPS handles far more than people assume; managed platforms cost more and remove work. I will recommend for your case rather than by default.
Can you set up staging?
Yes, and you should have one. Testing on production is how outages happen.
Do you provide ongoing server management?
Yes, as part of a maintenance arrangement — updates, monitoring and response.
Have a project in mind?
Tell me what you're building and roughly when you need it. I reply to every genuine enquiry within one working day.