Your cloud. Your rules. No pager required.

Managed private infrastructure for teams that want ownership without becoming the ops team. I design, migrate, and operate a documented stack for apps, files, backups, and observability β€” on hardware or hosting you control.

Managed private cloud infrastructure
Proxmox
Docker
Coolify
Kubernetes (k3s)
Supabase
Nextcloud
Traefik
Caddy
GitHub
Forgejo
PostgreSQL
Redis
Garage S3
Grafana
Loki
Tempo
Mimir
Thor
AWS

Choose the cloud layer you need

Start with one app or build the whole platform. Every scope includes explicit ownership, a backup plan, and documentation your team can use.

Managed Proxmox clusters

Multi-node Proxmox VE design, shared storage, high-availability policy, upgrades, monitoring, and lifecycle support.

Standalone app deployments

Focused Docker or Coolify deployments for one application, with domains, TLS, backups, updates, and a clean handoff.

Nextcloud storage + apps

Managed files, photos, calendars, contacts, groupware, and approved Nextcloud apps on infrastructure you control.

TrueNAS storage + apps

ZFS-backed storage, snapshots, SMB or NFS shares, and Docker applications with separate, recoverable data sets.

YunoHost instance hosting

Lightweight Debian-based app hosting with domains, certificates, users, SSO, backups, and catalog applications.

OpenStack private clouds

OpenStack-based compute, networking, identity, and storage deployments sized for real private-cloud requirements.

Proxmox Community Scripts apps

Curated LXC and VM application installs from the community catalog, with source review, isolation, backups, and update planning.

Backup + recovery platforms

Proxmox Backup Server integration, retention policy, encrypted off-site copies, restore drills, and recovery runbooks.

K3s application clusters

Lightweight Kubernetes for edge, lab, and private workloads, from a single server to justified high availability.

From server sprawl to an owned, operable stack

1

Map what matters

Inventory workloads, data, domains, failure risks, and access. Decide what stays, what moves, and what is not worth rebuilding.

2

Build the boring path

Provision in small slices with repeatable deploys, isolated workloads, ingress, backups, and observability from day one.

3

Operate without guesswork

Ship runbooks, recovery checks, ownership boundaries, and optional managed support so the stack stays understandable.

best value

Ownership

Keep the keys β€” and know where everything lives

Customer-controlled domains, portable services, documented credentials, and clear data boundaries. No mystery tenant IDs or infrastructure held together by one person's memory.

Keep the keys β€” and know where everything lives

Operations

Backups count only after a restore works

Monitoring, patching, recovery drills, and support boundaries are designed with the deployment β€” not added after the first outage.

Backups count only after a restore works

Own the stack, not the toil.

Start with one workload, one migration, or one recovery problem. You get a scoped first milestone, visible tradeoffs, and infrastructure your team can understand after handoff.

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