Engineering capabilities
- Provider and plan selection
- Hardened Linux / Windows baseline
- Reverse proxy and TLS automation
- Snapshot and offsite backup policy
Cloud & Virtualization
Provider-neutral VPS estates on DigitalOcean, Vultr, Contabo, Linode or Hetzner, built to a hardened baseline with monitoring and backups from day one.
A VPS is only cheap if it is built properly once. The baseline below is applied at provisioning, not retrofitted after the first incident.
Provider chosen on workload profile, data residency, network quality and support expectations u2014 not on headline price alone.
Password authentication disabled, management ports closed to the public internet, per-person accounts with sudo logging.
Minimal package set, only required ports open, security updates applied automatically with reboot windows agreed.
TLS renewal automated, services isolated per user or container, control panel added only where the client administers it themselves.
Snapshots are convenience, not backup u2014 an independent offsite copy is always configured alongside them.
Contabo and Hetzner give the most resource per unit cost; DigitalOcean, Vultr and Linode give better network quality, APIs and support. The choice follows the workload, not a preference.
From measured load where an existing system can be profiled, otherwise a conservative baseline with monitoring and a review at 30 days u2014 vertical scaling on a VPS is a short maintenance window, not a rebuild.
No. Snapshots live in the same account as the server, so an account compromise or accidental deletion takes both. An independent offsite copy is always configured.
Patching, monitoring, backup verification and hardening reviews can be covered under a maintenance arrangement agreed in advance, or handed over with documentation if you run it in-house.
Send the environment details and get an engineered proposal with assumptions, risks and a rollback path.