I have been running my own servers for years. A homelab at home, and real apps on rented servers that people actually use. Most of what I picked up along the way is already on this blog, free to read.
Reading only gets you so far though. You have your own setup, your own constraints, and at some point you just want someone who has done this before to look at it with you. That is what this is.
This is not theory for me
Everything I would walk you through is what I actually run. My own products are deployed and looked after this way, on servers I manage myself.
What we can look at
Whether your own server is a good idea for you, and how to move without breaking things.
SSH, firewalls, fail2ban. What actually protects you and what is just noise.
Docker, reverse proxies and SSL, set up so you stop thinking about them.
Backups are easy. Restores are the hard part, and the part people skip.
Monitoring and alerts, so you hear about it before your users do.
Architecture, code review, or just talking through a decision you are stuck on.
Not sure your problem fits? It probably does. Ask me.
How it works
You land straight on my calendar afterwards.
Use the same email you paid with. The more you write, the more useful the hour is.
On Google Meet. Afterwards I send you written notes of what we covered and what I would do next.
- A full hour on your setup, not a generic walkthrough
- I read your notes and prepare before we talk
- Written notes afterwards, so you have something to work from
- Only 4 calls a month, so nobody gets a rushed one
Pay first, then pick your time.
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Just tell me and I will send the money back. No forms, no argument. I would rather do that than have you feel you wasted it.
You might not need this
Almost everything I know is already on this blog, and it costs nothing. If you are starting out, read the VPS series and work through it yourself. Plenty of people have, and honestly it is the better path if you have the time.
Book a call when you are stuck on something specific, when you want a second pair of eyes before you put real users on a setup, or when you would rather spend an hour than a whole weekend.