Web servers
Nginx — the front door, configured properly.
Reverse-proxy and load-balancing patterns that survive your peak traffic, TLS that scores A+, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, rate limits that block scrapers without locking out customers, and CIS-aligned configs reviewed every quarter.
What we manage
Web server tuning
Worker processes and connections tuned to traffic, keepalive timeouts, buffer sizes, sendfile / tcp_nodelay / tcp_nopush set right.
TLS & protocol
Let's Encrypt or ACM-issued certs, OCSP stapling, modern cipher suites, HTTP/2 + HTTP/3 (QUIC), HSTS preload — A+ on SSL Labs as a baseline.
Reverse proxy & load balancing
Upstream pool design, health checks, retry policy, sticky sessions where required, traffic splitting for canary releases.
Rate limiting & WAF
leaky-bucket rate limits per route, geo-blocking, ModSecurity / WAF rules, OpenResty Lua for custom auth and request filtering.
Caching layers
Static-asset cache, microcaching for dynamic pages, CDN-aware configuration, log-driven cache hit-rate optimisation.
Logs & metrics
Structured access / error logs shipped to centralised logging, real-time metrics via stub_status or nginx-vts, SLO-driven alerting.
Compatible across every cloud we manage
Same playbook on AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and DigitalOcean — pick the cloud, we'll run the stack.
How we engage
1. Assess
Two-week audit of your current cloud setup against the provider's Well-Architected / Architecture Framework. Concrete findings, no fluff.
2. Stabilise
We close the top security, reliability and cost gaps before going into steady-state operations.
3. Operate
24/7 monitoring, on-call, change management, monthly reviews and a roadmap for the next quarter.
DIY guides & field notes
Build it yourself — or have us do it for you
Short articles, runbooks and field notes from our engineers. Each one starts here as a snippet and continues on Medium.
May 24, 20261 min read
Nginx vs HAProxy vs Envoy — an honest 2026 comparison
Three excellent proxies, three different sweet spots. Where we deploy each one for customers, and the failure modes that decide which to pick.
Read snippetMay 22, 20261 min read
Nginx, HTTP/3, and a TLS config that's actually current for 2026
QUIC support, TLS 1.3, OCSP stapling, cipher hardening, and the small details that decide whether your edge gets an A+ or a C on every TLS scanner.
Read snippetMay 20, 20261 min read
Layered rate limiting in Nginx — from limit_req_zone to Cloudflare and back
How we stack edge, perimeter, and origin rate limiting to absorb scrapers, brute-force attempts, and the occasional volumetric DDoS without paging the on-call.
Read snippetMay 18, 20261 min read
The Nginx reverse proxy patterns we actually run in production
Upstream blocks, keepalive tuning, header forwarding, and the X-Forwarded-For chain. The reverse-proxy config we copy onto every customer's edge.
Read snippetMay 17, 20261 min read
Migrating Apache to Nginx — the translation patterns and playbook we use
Most Apache-to-Nginx migrations get stuck on .htaccess. Here's the translation table, the gotchas, and the playbook that gets a real site cut over without surprises.
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