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Linux Server Management

Someone should be watching your servers. Let it be us.

We manage, secure and monitor your Linux servers — Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS/Rocky, Debian — with patching, hardening, uptime monitoring and 24/7 support. Senior sysadmins, fixed monthly scope, servers that are someone’s job to watch, not an afterthought.

180+ teams shipping with our engineers · ISO 27001-secure · NDA on request

— What we build

Four ways we manage your Linux servers.

From a single production server to a full fleet, we provide the ongoing administration that keeps servers patched, secure and monitored. (Need a one-time automation project or a cloud migration instead? See our Infrastructure Automation and Cloud Migration Services pages.)

Patch & update management

Security patches and OS updates applied on a schedule, tested before rollout, with a rollback plan if something breaks.

Scheduled patching

Kernel updates

Rollback-ready

Security hardening & monitoring

Firewall rules, intrusion detection, access controls and continuous monitoring so issues get caught before they’re incidents.

Firewall / fail2ban

Intrusion detection

Access hardening

Performance monitoring & tuning

Resource monitoring, alerting and tuning so servers run efficiently and problems get caught before users notice.

Uptime monitoring

 Resource alerts

Performance tuning

24/7 incident response & support

On-call support for when something actually goes wrong — not a ticket queue that responds Monday morning.

24/7 on-call

Incident response

SLA-backed

Most server incidents happen because nobody was actually watching.

Most “the server’s been unpatched for eight months” or “we didn’t notice disk space filling up” problems happen because server management is everyone’s part-time responsibility and nobody’s actual job. Before we take over anything, we audit the current state honestly — then make sure patching, monitoring and security are a recurring, accountable process, not a task on someone’s backlog.

Patched on schedule

Monitored 24/7

Hardened by default

Someone’s actual job

1

AUDIT

Assess current patch level, security & performance

2

HARDEN

Fix security gaps and configuration issues

3

MONITOR

Set up alerting and 24/7 coverage

Outcome

We start with a server audit — so you know exactly what state your fleet is really in before anything else.

14 years ·  300+ PRODUCTS

Built to be watched,
not just running.

300+

 Products shipped to production

across 9 industries

14yrs

Years in business

founded 2012

95%

Engagement extension

clients renew or expand

ISO 27001

Audited data security

brief → first standup

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Capabilities & stack

Boring tech that
ships on time.

We manage servers with proven, widely-used tooling — not a bespoke monitoring stack only one person understands. Real operations, documented for accountability.

How we pick

01

Audit honestly before taking over

Before we manage anything, we assess the real patch level, security posture and performance — so you know the starting point, warts and all.

02

Patch on a schedule, tested first

Updates go through a staging check before production rollout, on a defined cadence — not applied ad hoc or skipped when things get busy.

03

Monitor continuously, not reactively

Alerting is set up for resource usage, security events and uptime — so problems get caught before a user complains.

04

Real accountability where it counts

Defined SLAs and on-call coverage for incidents — so “who’s responsible for this server” always has a clear answer.

LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS

Ubuntu

RHEL

CentOS / Rocky Linux

Debian

MONITORING & ALERTING

Datadog

Zabbix

Prometheus + Grafana

Nagios

SECURITY & HARDENING

UFW / iptables

fail2ban

CIS benchmarks

SSH hardening

PATCH & CONFIG MANAGEMENT

Unattended-upgrades

Ansible

apt / yum automation

BACKUP & RECOVERY

Automated backups

Disaster recovery planning

Snapshot management

Industries

Linux server management, tuned for your industry.

Every industry has its own uptime expectations, compliance requirements and tolerance for unpatched risk. We bring playbooks, not generic monitoring — and manage your servers around your organization’s real constraints from day one.

01 · Industry

Healthcare

Server management that keeps clinical systems compliant.

02 · Industry

Finance & Fintech

Server management built for regulatory audit requirements.

03 · Industry

Retail & E-commerce

Server management that holds up during peak traffic.

04 · Industry

Logistics

Server management for systems that run around the clock.

Engagement models

Pick how you want to
ship with us.

Three ways in — all senior sysadmins, all fixed against the uptime and security outcomes we agree on before we take over.

Fixed-scope

Server audit & hardening

Best when you’re not sure how exposed or out-of-date your servers actually are.

Fixed-scope

Project-based build

Best for ongoing management of a defined server fleet.

Embedded

Staff augmentation

Plug senior Linux sysadmins into your team.

FAQ

The questions
everyone asks before kickoff.

Not sure how exposed your current servers actually are? Book a 30-min call with a senior sysadmin.

Which Linux distributions do you support?

Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS/Rocky Linux and Debian are our most common, but we work with most mainstream distributions — tell us what you’re running and we’ll confirm fit on the first call.

We run a server audit covering patch level, open ports, firewall rules, access controls and known vulnerabilities — giving you a real picture instead of an assumption that “it’s probably fine.”

Patches are tested in a staging environment before production rollout and applied on a scheduled maintenance window with a rollback plan — so updates happen reliably, not as a surprise outage.

Our managed support includes 24/7 monitoring and on-call incident response with defined SLA response times — so it’s someone’s actual job to respond, not a ticket waiting for Monday morning.

Both — monitoring and alerting catch issues, but our managed support includes actively resolving them, not just notifying you that something’s wrong and leaving it to your team.

It’s worth it for a single production server that matters to your business just as much as for a large fleet — the risk of an unpatched or unmonitored server doesn’t scale down with server count.

Yes — we specifically start with an honest audit for exactly this reason, so we understand what we’re inheriting before making changes, rather than assuming a clean starting point.

Yes — we maintain documentation and configuration as code wherever possible throughout the engagement, so a transition back in-house (or to another vendor) doesn’t start from zero.

ISO 27001-secure · Certified since 2020

Let's make your servers someone's actual job.

Send your brief — a senior sysadmin (not a sales rep) replies within 24 hours with an honest read on your current server state, and a fixed-scope plan for the fix.

What you’ll get