Part of our Server & System Management service

Servers that stay up, with someone actually watching them

The problem this solves

Plenty of businesses find out their backups don't work on the day they need them. Hosting tends to get set up once and forgotten: patches lag, certificates expire, disks fill, and nobody notices until the site is down or the database won't start, usually at the worst possible moment. The cheap shared-hosting answer leaves you on hold with a support queue that doesn't know your setup. The expensive answer is a full-time ops hire you don't have the work to justify. What most teams actually need is someone keeping the systems patched, watching the metrics that predict trouble, testing that the backups truly restore, and picking up the phone when something breaks, without staffing a 24-hour team to get it.

How it works

  1. Take stock

    We document what you run, where it lives, and where the risks are: missing patches, untested backups, expiring certificates, single points of failure.

  2. Stabilize

    Updates brought current, monitoring and alerting put in place, backups configured and actually test-restored, security basics closed off.

  3. Watch and maintain

    Ongoing monitoring of uptime, resource use, and security, with patching on a schedule, so problems get caught as warnings instead of outages.

  4. Respond when it matters

    When something does break, a person who knows your setup handles it, rather than a generic queue starting from zero at 2am.

Typical timeline

Onboarding and stabilizing a typical setup takes 1–2 weeks; monitoring and maintenance run continuously after that.

What teams typically see

  • Uptime measured and held in the 99.9% range
  • Backups that are tested, not just configured and assumed
  • Issues caught as alerts before they become outages

Questions teams ask about this

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