Server Management
Someone has to patch it, rotate the certificates, watch the disk and answer the phone at 2am. That is the job.
- Continuous hardening & patching
- Automated TLS and DNS
- Backup, restore & failover drills
Sound familiar?
Patching happens when something breaks
Updates are deferred because nobody is sure what will fall over. The gap between released and installed keeps growing, and that gap is the attack surface.
Alerts go to an inbox nobody reads
Monitoring exists and produces noise. Real incidents are discovered by a customer phoning in.
One person knows how it works
The configuration lives in their head and in a folder on their laptop. Nothing is written down, so nothing can be handed over.
Scope of work
Hardening & patching
A baseline applied and kept: firewall, SSH policy, fail2ban, unattended security updates, and scheduled windows for the rest.
Certificates & DNS
Automatic issuance and renewal, with alerting well before expiry. Zones managed through an API with a change log, not through a panel by hand.
Monitoring that reaches a person
Uptime, latency, disk, memory and certificate expiry — probed from outside, escalated to an on-call engineer, not to a mailbox.
Documented and handed over
Every machine, service and credential written down and kept current. If you replace us, the next team can pick it up in an afternoon.
From first call to steady state.
Audit
A full inventory of what exists: machines, services, domains, certificates, backups, and who can access what. Usually the first time anyone has seen the whole list.
Stabilise
Close what is urgent — exposed services, expired or expiring certificates, missing or unverified backups.
Automate
Patching, renewals, backups and restore verification move onto a schedule that runs without anyone remembering.
Operate
Continuous watch, monthly reporting, and a named engineer who answers when something is wrong.
Can you manage servers we already have elsewhere?
Yes. We manage machines at other providers and in your own cloud account. You keep the contract and the root access.
What happens at 2am?
Alerts escalate to a person on call. You get told what happened and what was done, in writing, the same day.
Do you take over from an existing provider?
Regularly. The audit step is designed for exactly that situation, including when the handover documentation does not exist.