Linux Server Deployment & Troubleshooting

Get a Linux server that boots cleanly, stays up, and serves your application the way it should — whether you are launching a fresh production stack or trying to recover one that is throwing errors, refusing connections, or silently dropping traffic.

What this service covers

I take a Linux box from bare OS to a working, hardened production environment, or diagnose an existing one that has stopped behaving. The work spans deployment and incident troubleshooting across DigitalOcean, Linode, Azure, Google Cloud, generic VPS, and bare-metal hardware. (For AWS-specific EC2/VPC builds, see my dedicated AWS DevOps service.)

• Server setup: Ubuntu, Debian, or CentOS/Rocky provisioning, user and SSH key configuration, systemd service units.
• Web layer: NGINX or Apache, reverse proxies, virtual hosts, TLS/SSL certificates (Let's Encrypt or custom), HTTP/2.
• Databases: MySQL/MariaDB or PostgreSQL install, tuning, backups, and connection troubleshooting.
• Containers & pipelines: Docker and Docker Compose deployment, plus CI/CD wiring with GitHub Actions or GitLab CI for automated releases.
• Hardening: firewall (UFW/iptables), SSH lockdown, fail2ban, unattended security updates, and least-privilege access.
• Troubleshooting: reading logs, journald, failing services, port and connectivity issues, permission errors, and resource exhaustion.

How it is delivered

I start with a short scope of your stack and current state, get read or root access, then deploy or debug directly on the server. You receive the working configuration, a written summary of every change made, and the commands needed to maintain it yourself.

Timeline, revisions & scope

A clean single-server deployment or a focused troubleshooting session typically lands within 1–3 working days; larger multi-service stacks take longer and are quoted up front. Each engagement includes follow-up fixes if a delivered configuration does not behave as agreed.

Not included unless we agree it separately: ongoing 24/7 monitoring or on-call retainers, application source-code development, AWS-specific EC2/VPC architecture (handled by my AWS service), and licensed third-party software costs.

Background

I work as a full-stack and DevOps engineer with a decade of hands-on Linux administration, building and maintaining production server environments across cloud and bare-metal infrastructure.