System Administration
There’s much more to websites than meets the eye. Behind every website is a server, humming away, specially programmed to deliver your content to your eager audience. It’s usually running UNIX, or something like it — maybe Debian GNU/Linux, CentOS, or FreeBSD. I can help you keep your server fighting fit, to deliver your content and applications in a timely, secure fashion.
The content and structure of your website are big factors in getting indexed by Google, getting found, and getting and keeping visitors, but a lot of the work in web development is complex, behind-the-scenes stuff. A large number of web designers, with a graphic design focus that is increasingly inappropriate for the world wide web, simply don’t know how these things work.
Server administration involves a whole lot of scripts and processes, a myriad of elements working together to give you a webserver that stands up to all sorts of traffic, offers many services, and gives your visitors an elegant, quick and meaningful response to all their queries — while keeping the ever-present threat of crackers at bay.
Putting It All Together
Sanctum can help you with the following, and more, for any UNIX-based hosting environment. If you’re setting up a new server, I can do that too.
- Webserver setup, extension, and maintenance
- Email server administration, including spam protection and antivirus systems
- Security audits
- Database server setup and migration
- Shell scripting
- Server migration
- Server backups
If you have an existing server with specialised requirements and are looking for a system administrator to help you manage it, contact me and I’ll tell you what I can do for you.