Deva H.
System Administrator (Sysadmin) / Linux & Cloud Server Management
Hi there! I am Deva, a Linux System Administrator with 5+ years of experience helping businesses worldwide build high-performance, secure, and scalable hosting infrastructures. Whether you are running a boutique hosting agency or a complex, multi-region server setup, I provide the technical backbone your business needs to stay online and profitable. Why partner with me? I understand that in the hosting world, downtime is not an option. My focus is on proactive management, security hardening, and optimizing your server stack to handle high traffic without performance degradation. Core Expertise: ✔️ Server Management & Control Panels: Expert installation and management of cPanel/WHM, Plesk, DirectAdmin, Enhance Panel, CyberPanel, CloudPanel, aaPanel, FastPanel, WHMCS Billing System and custom CLI-based environments. ✔️ Virtualization & Cloud Infrastructure: Skilled in setting up robust environments using Proxmox, Virtualizor, SolusVM2, and Virtfusion. Experienced with cloud giants: AWS Lightsail, GCP, OVHcloud, DigitalOcean, Akamai (Linode), Vultr, Contabo, UpCloud, and Hostinger. ✔️ Performance & Security: Server hardening, Litespeed, Nginx, Apache optimization, CloudLinux, KernelCare, Imunify360, and cPGuard to ensure a "bulletproof" hosting environment. ✔️ Storage & Monitoring: Architecture of storage solutions (RAID, LVM, Ceph, MinIO, DRBD) and proactive server monitoring via Grafana and Prometheus. 📌 The tools, applications, and other stuff I use most often with clients based on their needed: WordPress, N8N, OpenClaw, Ansible, web hosting panels and WHMCS, migrations, cleaning wordpress virus or malware, setup grafana for monitoring servers using prometheus. 💡In short: I specialize in the web hosting industry. Whether you are launching a new hosting business from the ground up or need an experienced System Administrator to maintain your existing infrastructure, I provide the expertise to keep your services secure, scalable, and stable. *I am available for long-term maintenance contracts or project-based infrastructure troubleshooting. Don't see your specific requirement listed? Send me a message! I have worked with diverse hosting stacks and can likely tailor a solution for your unique needs.
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $104
Billed in all: $7,411$7.4k
$35 in the last 6 months
Across 51 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: Top 33% in Virtual Private Server
Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.
- #7CloudLinux14 freelancers · 🇮🇩 #2Top 50%🇮🇩#2 of 2
- #11Ceph21 freelancers · 🇮🇩 #2Top 52%🇮🇩#2 of 3
- #43WHMCS Development124 freelancers · 🇮🇩 #2Top 35%🇮🇩#2 of 2
- #47Mail Server Implementation127 freelancers · 🇮🇩 #4Top 37%🇮🇩#4 of 6
- #48Virtual Private Server145 freelancers · 🇮🇩 #3Top 33%🇮🇩#3 of 11
- #53Plesk112 freelancers · 🇮🇩 #3Top 47%🇮🇩#3 of 4
- #64Proxmox VE144 freelancers · 🇮🇩 #8Top 44%🇮🇩#8 of 8
- #86Hosting Setup187 freelancers · 🇮🇩 #1Top 46%🇮🇩#1 of 1