Server management
Linux servers, VPS and cloud accounts set up, secured and kept running by engineers who also write the software on them. You own the servers; we look after them.
Included
What server management covers
Setup and provisioning
New Linux VPS, cloud or cPanel servers built to a documented baseline, ready for production on day one.
Security hardening
Firewall rules, SSH keys, patched packages and least-privilege access, so the obvious doors stay shut.
Backups you can restore
Scheduled off-server backups of files and databases, with restores tested rather than assumed.
Monitoring and alerts
Uptime, disk, memory and certificate expiry watched, with alerts that reach a person before users notice.
SSL, DNS and email
Certificates that renew themselves, clean DNS records, and SPF, DKIM and DMARC so your mail lands in inboxes.
Migrations and upgrades
Moves between hosts, OS and PHP upgrades, and consolidation, planned around your quiet hours.
Stack
Tools we use for this work
Why us
Why teams choose Codespark
Developers who run servers
We deploy and operate our own clients' production apps, so we know where application problems and server problems meet.
Your accounts, your keys
Servers stay in cloud and hosting accounts you own. Access is documented and handed back whenever you ask.
Changes you can trace
Every change is logged with what, why and when, so nothing on your server is a mystery to the next engineer.
Approach
Shared hosting, VPS or cloud
Many businesses run a mix: a cPanel account for the website, a VPS for an application, a cloud bucket for files. We manage each where it already lives and tell you plainly when a move would save money or trouble, and when it would not.
Questions
Common questions
How is server management priced?
A fixed monthly fee per server, quoted after a short audit of what is running on it. The audit tells you what we found whether or not you go ahead.
Can you take over servers another provider set up?
Yes. We audit the server first, document what exists, close obvious security gaps, set up backups and monitoring, then manage it from there.
Do we have to move our hosting to you?
No. We manage servers on the hosting and cloud accounts you already own, including cPanel shared hosting, VPS providers and AWS.
Do you manage servers for software you did not build?
Yes. Server management stands on its own; it does not require us to have written the application running on the server.
Related
Related services
Maintenance and support
The unglamorous work that keeps software alive: hosting, monitoring, security patches, fixes and steady improvement, long after launch day applause fades.
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Web application development
Customer portals, dashboards, SaaS products and internal tools built on Laravel, PHP and React.
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API development and integration
The plumbing that makes your systems one system: REST APIs we design, and third-party services integrated so reliably you forget they are third parties.
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