Paul Schloeder
“Where things stand today at 1WorldSync, from an infrastructure perspective, are night and day from where they were when I first started. One cannot measure the stability and peace of mind that CraftyPenguins has brought to 1WorldSync.
Perhaps the biggest compliment I can give is that when I state to either Engineering or DevOps that the CraftyPenguins team is looking into something and that this is their recommendation, there is no longer second guessing or pushback that there is a better solution; they know that what your team has explored every possible option and this is what is best for 1WorldSync.
The CraftyPenguins team are truly the unsung heroes of 1WorldSync.”
David Stokes
Just use Crafty Penguins…you won’t regret it.
We’re a small non-profit organization with limited resources, and we needed help due to our current work load. Crafty Penguins “Get me out of trouble service” was an excellent choice for us. Their pricing and customer service is fair and easily understood. Their technicians were knowledgeable, and great partners who helped us migrate an older Linux distro from AWS to a VMWare instance.
We then asked them to help us migrate the latest version of the Oracle database to the new server, they did so with minimal disruption and downtime. Our IT resources are limited due to the nature of a non-profit organization, however the Crafty Penguins team worked with us to provide excellent service in a timely manner at an affordable price.
Greg Hansen
We came to Crafty Penguins when our company was experiencing rapid growth. Our website traffic was increasing daily, and we needed someone capable of building a reliable, hardened production environment that could easily scale. The team of Crafty Penguins was fast and efficient in getting their infrastructure set up and monitoring our production servers. That alone eased a lot of fears of a catastrophic failure on our side. They listened to us to identify the job that needed to get done, and they did it reliably and professionally with great communication throughout the process. We’ve been working with Crafty Penguins ever since to resolve other issues and implement a series of further enhancements. It’s comforting to know that we’re working with experts that will be there for us when we need them.
Gil Montoya
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.
Jason Ziolo
The biggest benefit is that they truly felt like a member of our team. Other company’s have made this claim, but theirs is real. I could call on them at any time, and they were always available and felt like a team member. This helped build trust and gave me confidence in the software development that I was doing. They never said “no”, but instead, lent a helping hand to dive in and figure things out.
Do you want just a vendor or a real partner? If you’re looking for the former, go find the lowest bid. When you ultimately are let down, then hire Crafty Penguins like you should have in the first place!
Robert Burko
Working with Crafty Penguins has been an outstanding experience. As the CEO of a digital marketing agency, I needed a partner I could completely trust to handle our server management, security, and 24/7 monitoring—and Crafty Penguins delivered flawlessly. Their team of experts managed our cloud infrastructure, handled patching and malware removal, and ensured our systems stayed stable, secure, and online with 100% uptime. Every project was clearly scoped, communicated, and completed on time, with prompt and reliable support through calls, email, and Slack. What impressed me most was their trustworthiness and deep technical expertise—they truly are masters of their craft. Crafty Penguins isn’t just a vendor; they’re a dependable partner who continually seeks feedback and strengthens the relationship with every interaction.
Etienne V. Labelle
Before working with Crafty Penguins, our servers were running — but it sometimes felt like we had to say a little prayer to keep them that way. I used to sleep with my phone on full volume, ready for the inevitable 3 a.m. alert. When it came, I’d be frantically Googling fixes, hoping I wouldn’t accidentally delete everything by following a 12-year-old Stack Overflow post.
Now, things couldn’t be more different. If something breaks, 99% of the time, someone from the Crafty Penguins team has already spotted it and is working on a fix before I can even log in (just like last night!). These days, if an issue happens at 3 a.m., I just sleep through it and catch up on the details in the morning.
In the past, we avoided rebooting or updating servers out of fear something would go wrong. Now, I regularly get a friendly Slack message asking if it’s a good time to update or reboot — and everything just works.
What I appreciate most about Crafty Penguins (aside from the great name) is how effortless it is to work with them. If I need a change, I just send a message on Slack, and someone knowledgeable takes care of it. I don’t have to learn HAProxy or figure out how to migrate to Kubernetes myself — I know it’ll be handled properly and reliably.
I can’t recommend Crafty Penguins highly enough. They’ve completely changed how we manage our systems, and I finally get a good night’s sleep.
Paul Linenberg
We came to Crafty Penguins when it became evident that we didn’t have a solid infrastructure to guarantee our users reliable performance and data security. We relied on their team to be the experts, and they didn’t disappoint. They helped us build a new, reliable architecture that gives us a comfortable sense of security. We now stopped worrying about our system crashing and can concentrate on running our business.
Herman van Rhijn
Having Crafty Penguins manage our systems saves us time so that we can focus on our core business. At the moment, we serve 25,000+ customers with only two of our own staff members. The team of Crafty Penguins has very in-depth knowledge, is capable of investigating the issues a lot deeper than an average IT provider and is always there for us when we need them.
Brent Bawel
Crafty Penguins helped us cut our server rack monthly rental in half. Also, our prior consultants recommended us purchasing more servers, but the assessment of Crafty Penguins showed us that we had enough space with what was already there. We value honesty and trust of their team, which is a pretty big deal when IT is not familiar territory for anyone working in the company.
Clint Bounds
After connecting with Crafty Penguins through DigitalOcean’s customer service, Clint immediately felt the difference. “My initial conversation with them was amazing — it felt like 15 years of sleepless nights just melted away,” he says.
The Crafty Penguins team managed the migration with virtually zero downtime, enabling Clint to step away from day-to-day server management. Today, Plan to Eat runs staging and production environments powered by DigitalOcean Droplets, intentionally overpowered for peak reliability and speed. Backups are handled through Volumes detachable block storage, ensuring data integrity and quick recovery.
Crafty Penguins also developed a robust deployment process with seamless rollback capabilities, while DigitalOcean provides a dependable infrastructure backbone. In over two years since the migration, Plan to Eat has not experienced a single major outage — a marked improvement over previous AWS operations.
“There’s no single point of failure,” Clint notes. “When large companies on AWS face issues, our website keeps running smoothly — and that feels great.”
Clifford Long
Crafty Penguins was an incredible partner for our growing SaaS company, Station Automation. As Co-Founder, I was impressed by how seamlessly they managed our infrastructure, monitored systems, and guided our migration to AWS. From optimizing our database performance and streamlining our Rackspace platform to handling incident response, their team of specialists delivered consistently excellent results. What stood out most was their culture fit and shared values—they felt like part of our team rather than an outside vendor. Always responsive, professional, and personable, Crafty Penguins helped us move smoothly through a major transition and set us up for scalable success.