The Challenge
Most small businesses’ websites live on whatever hosting the last freelancer chose — no backups anyone has tested, no monitoring, and a single reboot away from an outage nobody notices until a customer calls.
Our Approach
- Engineered a single managed platform that runs 12 production websites — Next.js applications, Laravel, PHP, and static sites — plus email, on hardened infrastructure we operate ourselves.
- Put every application under systemd supervision so services restart automatically and survive reboots.
- Automated daily database backups, pulled off-site and verified — with SSL certificates on auto-renewal across all sites.
- Built a registry-driven control system: every fact about the platform lives in one audited place, every deploy is one command, and health checks run across every site before and after any deployment.
Results
- 12 production sites running on one accountable operations system.
- Every service is reboot-safe and every database is backed up off-site daily.
- Nothing ships without a health check on both sides of the deployment.
Key Takeaways
- Anyone can launch a website; the question is who answers for it in month 14.
- Operations discipline — backups, monitoring, supervised processes — is what turns a website into an asset instead of a liability.
- One registry of facts and one-command deploys eliminate the configuration drift that kills small-site reliability.