Roy owns a small business in the United States.
The company has been operating for 13 years, and its entire business is conducted online.
Roy reached out to me to evaluate his existing server infrastructure, explore ways to improve it, and determine whether it was possible to cut his monthly costs, which had climbed into the hundreds of dollars.
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Our audit of the company's servers uncovered numerous issues:
- An analysis of server resource usage statistics revealed that more modern, cost-effective hardware could handle the workload while maintaining high performance.
- The web hosting infrastructure running on the server was outdated, was missing critical security updates, and carried an unnecessarily high licensing cost.
- The server had no backup system in place. The slightest disaster could have wiped out the entire business's operations at any moment.
- The server was exposed directly to the internet, with no IP address masking and no firewall protection against cyberattacks.
- The mail server for the websites hosted on the server had never been configured properly. Upon investigation, it turned out that although potential customers had been filling out contact forms on the main sales website, those submissions had never once reached the sales team.
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Less than a month later, Roy had a modern, fully updated infrastructure:
We deployed a new server on significantly faster, up-to-date hardware, with the ability to quickly and easily scale resources up or down as needed.
We built a modern, secure hosting environment while achieving substantial savings on licensing costs.
We connected the server to a proxy to mask its address and protect it against cyberattacks.
We implemented an advanced security framework across every layer of the server — from the server itself down to each individual hosted website.
We configured an automated backup system, both within the server environment and on a remote server, ensuring rapid recovery capability under any circumstances.
We set up a professional email server configured to prevent messages from being flagged as spam, avoid exposing the server's address in DNS records, and ensure reliable delivery of all emails to their intended recipients.
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And the best part?
Monthly costs were cut by more than 50%!
Roy recouped what he paid us for the service very quickly, and today he enjoys a modern, advanced system along with significant ongoing monthly savings.
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