Cloud or a plain server?

For most small teams a couple of plain Linux servers with containers, backups and monitoring cost less and are easier to reason about. We will tell you when that stops being true.

Do you offer ongoing management?

Yes, as a retainer. Or we set it up, hand over the runbook and you run it.

How quickly can you start?

Discovery usually begins within one to two weeks of a first call. If something is urgent, say so and we will tell you honestly whether we can fit it.

What if we don't have finalised requirements?

Then we start with a short paid scoping sprint: we map the workflow, define the scope and backlog, and give you an estimate you can hold us to.

Do you offer retainers?

Yes. A retained squad gives you ongoing design, development and automation capacity billed monthly, with a fixed set of people who know your systems.

Is maintenance included?

Every build includes three months of support after launch. After that, a retainer or ad-hoc work, your choice.

DevOps

Deploys, servers, monitoring

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Servers, deploys, backups and monitoring for small teams that want to own their infrastructure without hiring for it. We run our own, and we ship two products for it.

We run our own infrastructure, including the mail and analytics behind this site, and we built two products because the tools we wanted did not exist: ForgeBase, a self-hosted Postgres backend platform, and Kaname, a control plane for a small fleet of servers. That is the experience we bring to client infrastructure.

What we set up

Linux servers provisioned from a script, with firewall and fail2ban
Docker Compose deploys behind Caddy with automatic HTTPS
PostgreSQL with nightly backups, WAL archiving and a restore drill
Monitoring, logs and alerts that reach a phone
CI that builds, tests and deploys on every push

The point of it

A team of three should not spend a day a week on servers. The setup we leave behind is small enough to understand, documented enough to rebuild, and boring enough to forget about until an alert fires.

Questions about devOps.

Cloud or a plain server?: For most small teams a couple of plain Linux servers with containers, backups and monitoring cost less and are easier to reason about. We will tell you when that stops being true.
Do you offer ongoing management?: Yes, as a retainer. Or we set it up, hand over the runbook and you run it.
How quickly can you start?: Discovery usually begins within one to two weeks of a first call. If something is urgent, say so and we will tell you honestly whether we can fit it.
What if we don't have finalised requirements?: Then we start with a short paid scoping sprint: we map the workflow, define the scope and backlog, and give you an estimate you can hold us to.
Do you offer retainers?: Yes. A retained squad gives you ongoing design, development and automation capacity billed monthly, with a fixed set of people who know your systems.
Is maintenance included?: Every build includes three months of support after launch. After that, a retainer or ad-hoc work, your choice.

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