Servers & Infrastructure

Reliable operation, security and monitoring for your systems.

A stable and secure infrastructure is the foundation of any web application.
I take care of setup, management and optimisation of servers so your applications run reliably, securely and at scale.


Why professional server setup?

  • Security: Protection against attacks, regular updates, SSL/TLS.
  • Performance: Tuned configuration for fast load times.
  • Reliability: Monitoring, backups, failover strategies.
  • Automation: CI/CD pipelines, containerisation with Docker.

Typical use cases

  • Hosting Shopware 6, Laravel or Nuxt applications
  • Setting up Docker stacks for dev & production
  • CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments
  • Monitoring & alerting on outages or security issues

Services

  • Server setup: Linux servers with Nginx/Apache, PHP, databases.
  • Deployment: Automated pipelines with GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
  • Security hardening: Firewall, Fail2Ban, SSL certificates, GDPR compliance.
  • Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana or cloud services.
  • Backups & recovery: Strategies for resilience and data restoration.

Example projects

  • Shopware cluster: Operation with caching, queue workers and load balancing.
  • Laravel pipeline: CI/CD with automated tests & zero‑downtime deployments.
  • Security optimisation: Hardening a client project incl. monitoring & backups.

Conclusion

With a professionally set up server environment your project becomes faster, more secure and more reliable.
I’ll help you build the right infrastructure — for small projects or large platforms.

Process

  1. Assessment & architecture: review of current systems, capacity planning, compliance requirements.
  2. Implementation: provisioning via Terraform/Ansible, container orchestration, secrets management.
  3. Observability: logging, metrics, tracing and alerting.
  4. Operations & evolution: patch management, scaling strategies, incident response playbooks.

Technologies & platforms

  • Cloud: Hetzner Cloud, AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean
  • Containers & orchestration: Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes (k3s, EKS)
  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Buddy.works
  • Monitoring & logging: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK, Sentry
  • Security: Vault, CrowdSec, Let’s Encrypt, OpenID Connect

Compliance & operations

  • Implementing GDPR, data processing agreements and retention concepts
  • Documenting infrastructure, change management and access policies
  • Regular disaster recovery tests and runbooks
  • Continuous improvement to optimise costs and resource usage