LINUX CONSULTANTS

WHY WORK WITH US?

Consistently and reliably escalate our online presence to meet our customer’s demands nationwide.
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Consistently and reliably escalate our online presence to meet our customer’s demands nationwide.

We have relied on Crafty Penguin’s SaaS-based infrastructure and DevOps consulting services to consistently and reliably escalate our online presence to meet our customer’s demands nationwide.

The Crafty Penguins’ team has been committed to our success since our first interaction and continues to provide excellent value to our organization.

We highly recommend Crafty Penguins to any business looking for peace of mind and top-level solutions. In our case, it has liberated many of our resources to concentrate on generating value for our customers within our core competencies and fully exploiting our competitive advantages.

Gil Montoya, CEO, Contractor Campus Inc.

WHY CHOOSE CRAFTY PENGUINS FOR LINUX SERVER MANAGEMENT?

You need an experienced team of engineers. Our senior engineers individually have 20+ years of experience. We have breadth and depth in many areas, with both legacy and modern Linux and Open Source technologies. Chances are high that we’ve seen it before. Our wisdom gained from years of being bitten by technology will save you time by either thinking ahead to prevent potential issues, and quickly solving anything that does occur. When you hit a wall, we are here to help via Slack, Zoom, email, or phone.

You want to hear “Yes, we’ll figure it out”. We are creative, are not hung up on any vendor’s implementation, what an engineer may have learned in some certification course, or other in-the-box-thinking. We love solving tough problems!

You know that Proactive Maintenance needs to happen but nobody has time for it. We take care of routine Linux/Windows patching, scheduled reboots, testing backups, system log reviews, SSH account audits and much more to keep systems secure and running well. We stay one step ahead of your network by monitoring your systems in detail, having tools in place so that we can quickly respond when there is an issue, and review historical trends and patterns.

You need an operations team that understands software development. Since our team has experience in a wide variety of languages (Python, Java, PHP, C, C++, Bash, Assembler, SQL, HTML, JavaScript, ….), we can work closely with your developers to build pragmatic solutions. Rather then dev team saying “it worked for me” and operations saying “your code is broken, go fix it”, we bridge the gap by working together to find solutions and move forward.

Direct access to Linux Experts through Slack chat, Email, and Phone.

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Linux Consulting Services
System Design and Architecture
Linux Server Migrations and Installation
Linux Server Management
Remote Server Administration
Security Reviews and Assessments
IT Roadmaps
Break/Fix Support
Research and Development (R&D)
Backup Assessments (RPO/RTO)
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Infrastructure Managed Services
Server Management
High Availability Managed Services
SRE Services - Metrics/Monitoring/Alerts/24x7
Storage Management
Infrastructure Support
Cloud Infrastructure Management
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SaaS Consulting
SaaS Infrastructure consulting
SaaS Infrastructure Design
SaaS Migrations
SaaS Planning and Deployments
Maintenance and Support
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Linux Server Support
Linux Support
Ubuntu Linux Support
Debian Linux Support
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® Support
Rocky Linux Support
CentOS Linux Support
Emergency Linux Support
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Infrastructure Monitoring Services
24x7 NOC Services
Hardware Monitoring
Availability Monitoring
Performance Monitoring
Resource / Storage Monitoring
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Migration Consulting
Cloud Migration
Data Migration
Storage Migration
Service Migration
Application Migration
Legacy Migration
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Cloud Consulting
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Migration
Cloud Support
Cloud DevOps Consulting
Microsoft Azure
Amazon Web Services
GCloud
Digital Ocean
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DevOps
DevOps Consulting
Cloud DevOps services
DevOps Automation services
Compliance & Vulnerability Mitigation
SRE Services - Metrics/Monitoring/Alerts/24x7
Logging, Monitoring, & Alert Response
CI / CD Support
Disaster Recovery
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Microservice Infrastructure
Scale Automation
Platform Infrastructure Design and Deployment
Monolithic to Microservice Conversion
Container Orchestration
Infrastructure as Code Development
Scalability
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IT Consulting
Strategic IT Planning
Project Management
Knowledge Transfer
IT Management (vCIO / vCTO)
Disaster Recovery
Audit and Analysis
VPN & Firewall Configuration
Network & Virtual Private Cloud
Edge Routing & BGP
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OUR TECH STACK

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Linux distributions

Debian
Debian
Ubuntu
Ubuntu
Centos
Centos
Redhat
Redhat
Rockylinux
Rockylinux
Suse
Suse
AlmaLinux
AlmaLinux

DevOps

Docker
Docker
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Saltstack
Saltstack
Elkstack
Elkstack
Jenkins
Jenkins
Ansible
Ansible
GitLab
GitLab
ATLASSIAN
ATLASSIAN

Clouds

AWS
AWS
Digital Ocean
Digital Ocean
GoogleCloud
GoogleCloud
OVH
OVH
Azure
Azure
Openstack
Openstack

Databases

MongoDB
MongoDB
MySQL
MySQL
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
MariaDB
MariaDB
Varnish Cache
Varnish Cache

Enterprise Storage

Ceph
Ceph
GlusterFS
GlusterFS
Raid
Raid
SAN NAS
SAN NAS
ZFS
ZFS

Programming Languages

java
java
php
php
python
python
nodejs
nodejs
ruby
ruby

Amazon Cloud Services

CloudFormation
CloudFormation
CloudWatch
CloudWatch
CodePipeline
CodePipeline
Elastic Compute
Elastic Compute
Elastic Container Service
Elastic Container Service
Relational Database Service
Relational Database Service
Route53
Route53
s3 Bulk Storage
s3 Bulk Storage
VPC
VPC

File Systems

Ceph
Ceph
CIFS
CIFS
Glusterfs
Glusterfs
NFS
NFS
ZFS
ZFS

High Availability

VRRP
VRRP
HAProxy
HAProxy
IPVS
IPVS
Keepalived
Keepalived
HAMS DB
HAMS DB
HAMS IMDB
HAMS IMDB
HAMS K8S
HAMS K8S
HAMS NFS
HAMS NFS
HAMS WS
HAMS WS

Web & Proxy Servers

HAProxy
HAProxy
Apache
Apache
Squid
Squid
NGINX
NGINX
JBoss
JBoss
Apache Tomcat
Apache Tomcat
VARNISH CACHE
VARNISH CACHE

Virtualization

KVM
KVM
LXV
LXV
PROXMOX
PROXMOX
vmware
vmware
Hyper-v
Hyper-v

VPN Tunnelling

OPENVPN
OPENVPN
openswan
openswan
GRE
GRE
ML_VPN
ML_VPN
SD-WAN
SD-WAN
strongswan
strongswan
WIREGUARD
WIREGUARD

Log Management

elasticsearch
elasticsearch
kibana
kibana
logstash
logstash
Grafana Loki
Grafana Loki

Caching Systems

NGINX
NGINX
redis
redis
memcache
memcache
Varnish Cache
Varnish Cache

Networking

HAProxy
HAProxy
BGP
BGP
IPVS
IPVS
OSPF
OSPF
Quagga
Quagga
VLAN
VLAN
VRRP
VRRP
IPTABLES
IPTABLES

Monitoring & Metrics

Grafana
Grafana
Prometheus
Prometheus
influxdb
influxdb
Datadog
Datadog
New Relic
New Relic

Web Frameworks

django
django
Drupal
Drupal
Magento
Magento
WordPress
WordPress
moodle
moodle
Angular.js
Angular.js
CodeIgniter
CodeIgniter
Express.js
Express.js
Laravel
Laravel
Symfony
Symfony

Cluster Management

Oracle Grid Engine
Oracle Grid Engine
Slurm
Slurm

ENGAGEMENTS AND AGREEMENTS FOR LINUX CONSULTING

If you just need to work directly with a Linux Server Administrator for a couple of hours to get you over the bump, we have an accelerated “Get Me Out of Linux Trouble” prepaid ticket process, which will put you in direct contact with an expert engineer.

For larger projects (eg: 10+ hours), we will setup a block-time retainer. Typically this will start with a technical assessment and planning phase to come up with a solid plan of action.

For ongoing Proactive Maintenance, we can setup a TLC (Technology Loving Care) Proactive agreement which includes monitoring, backups, security reviews, patching, roadmap updates, and technology review meetings.

For ongoing Reactive support such as working with your developers, dealing with issues, changes, and projects, we can setup a monthly retainer with a set amount of hours. Our retainers never expire!

For standard projects like security assessments and network penetration tests, we can also provide fixed-price proposals.

What to expect when engaging with Crafty Penguins

We love challenges, but will seek to confirm they make sense in the bigger picture of your business in the long term.

Our goal is not a quick buck up front, but to invest into a long term relationship like we have with many of our clients.

We gladly receive feedback on your interactions with our marketing, sales, service delivery, project, and billing teams so that we can be better.

We believe in being transparent, and value facts and logic over emotional responses.

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