infrastructure
Servers, cloud, deployment, monitoring, backups and security. The layer everything else depends on, built so it doesn't need thinking about, and looked after so it stays that way.
What it looks like from where you're sitting
The server was set up by someone years ago. It works. Nobody wants to touch it, update it, or find out what's on it.
Deploying a change means someone copying files on a Friday evening and hoping.
Backups exist, probably. Nobody has ever restored one.
What we do about it
Hardened Linux servers or cloud environments sized to the job, built from a repeatable pattern so the next one is the same as the last.
Moving live systems off old servers, between providers, or from one database to another, with a plan, a rehearsal, and a rollback.
Code goes from a commit to production through a pipeline that tests it, with staging in between. No Friday evening file copies.
Uptime, resources, logs and application health, with alerts that reach a person who can act and don't cry wolf.
Automated, off-server, tested by actually restoring them on a schedule. A backup that's never been restored is a hope, not a backup.
Patching, firewalls, least-privilege access, no shared root logins, secrets managed properly, and a straight answer about what's exposed.
For the technical reader
Ubuntu LTS, Caddy for TLS and routing, per-application users and service isolation, managed databases where the provider does it better than we would. Provisioning scripted so environments are reproducible. GitHub Actions for build and deploy, with environments gated and secrets kept out of the repo.
Monitoring is push-based where we can make it so: the thing being watched reports in, and silence is itself an alert. Backups go to object storage in a separate account, with restore drills on a calendar. Everything is documented in a runbook that a competent engineer who has never seen the system could follow.
[Case study placeholder. What was found, how the live sites were kept running, the new per-site isolation and monitoring design, migration with no downtime. Our own platform, so this one can be told in full.]
We'll take a look and tell you plainly what state it's in, what's at risk, and what we'd do about it.