Services
Clear deliverables, minimal meetings, and changes that won’t light your weekend on fire. Pick one, or mix them based on what’s hurting.
Server health & security review
A structured check of OS, firewall rules, logs, backup posture, and exposure. Includes a prioritized action list you can implement yourself or hand off.
Web + database tuning
Measure latency, identify bottlenecks, tune MySQL/PHP/web stack, and validate results. No “I think it’s faster” — we confirm it.
Monthly stability & updates
Patch cadence, monitoring, backups, and drift prevention. Calm systems are cheaper than emergency repairs.
Scripts & scheduled reporting
Nightly jobs, imports, exports, log reporting, and “stop doing this manually every day” workflows.
Small internal web apps
One problem, one page, one job: dashboards, tracking tools, inventory views, follow-up widgets. Scope stays tight so the tool stays usable.
Emergency triage
When something is down or weird. We stabilize first, then fix root cause, then document.
Simple pricing
These are common starting points. If your setup is unusual, we’ll scope first and price second. The goal is predictability.
Quick Fix
- Up to 60 minutes
- Targeted change + quick notes
- Great for “what is this log entry?” moments
Audit + Tuning
- Measured performance baseline
- MySQL / PHP / web stack tuning
- Written summary + recommendations
- Follow-up validation (30 mins)
Monthly Maintenance
- Patching + review cadence
- Backup verification
- Monitoring + alert checks
- 1 hour support included
Need a small internal tool or dashboard? That’s usually a fixed-scope quote once we define the exact page and data sources.
How it works
The process is intentionally boring. Boring is how you avoid outages.
Define the target
Slow page, noisy logs, high CPU, failing backups — we pick the objective and the success metric.
Measure first
We gather evidence (logs, vmstat/iostat, MySQL status, slow queries). Guessing is expensive.
Apply safe changes
Small changes, one at a time, validated. No “big bang” config rewrites.
Document & handoff
You get a clear summary of what changed, why, and what to monitor going forward.
Typical environments I work in. If you have something odd, that’s usually fine too.
- Ubuntu / Debian Linux
- Apache2 / Nginx
- PHP + OPcache (and PHP-FPM where appropriate)
- MySQL / MariaDB
- Backups (rsync, snapshots, dumps, verification)
- Firewalls (UFW/iptables) and sane exposure control
- Monitoring basics (uptime, disk, load, logs)
Contact
Send a short note with your goal (speed, stability, an audit, a small tool) and what you’re running. If it’s a performance issue, include the slow URL(s) and approximate traffic.