Thomas B.

I am a motivated and highly experienced system and network administrator with over 25 years experience in diverse fields including E-Commerce, Research and Educational networking and product development. I have embraced change, learning up to date skills such as Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Computing, Information security and AI while still maintaining the traditional low level knowledge of Network engineering, System Administration, Hardware, Software/Product development and business management. I see my role as being an enabler for both the business owners and customers/users and utilise clear communication, team work and continuous learning to achieve these goals and help the organisations I have worked with to succeed. Here are examples of some tasks I can help you with : Hosting, DNS and Websites * You are moving a website between hosting providers or from a small VPS hosting to a dedicated server and you want to ensure that the site is moved successfully with minimum downtime * You are moving a domain between hosting providers and you want to ensure minimal disruption of all services on the domain including email and hosting * You are having a performance issue with your website or hosted application and you are getting incomplete or evasive answers from the hosting company, application vendor or both and you need to see whats going wrong * You have a number of domains, websites or other assets across multiple hosts and providers and you want to consolidate this to a single or small number of providers for easier billing and support * You need to ensure your website has been patched, backed up and can easily/quickly be stood up on a new hosting provider in case of disaster * You need a general review of your domains/hosting and/or documentation of same Linux issues * You need help setting up hosting for domains/DNS, websites, databases on Linux servers on-prem, hosted or in the cloud * You need to do advanced configuration such as High Availability or multi-site configurations * You need a backup solution or to integrate with an existing backup solution * You need a server hardened and/or regular application of system and software updates * You need to implement security features such as Multi-Factor authentication or a firewall * You need development of scripts or small applications to manage a part of your business or hosting setup Vendor management * You need help dealing with cloud providers, hosting companies and domain vendors and you need someone to bridge the gap between the technical jargon and the business value * You need to review hosting costs and suggest improvements