Service · Systems administration

Server management

When a server dies, not one person but the whole business stops: the warehouse cannot print dispatch notes, accounts cannot push invoices into KSeF, and sales are blind to stock. Most of those mornings are avoidable, because failures announce themselves for weeks beforehand through a climbing count of disk errors, a certificate close to expiry, or a backup job that has been ending in warnings for ages. Our job is to catch those signals before they turn into downtime. Whether the box sits in a data centre, Azure or a back-room cabinet makes no difference to us.

On-duty engineer
receives alarms by name
Fixed slot
for installing patches
Trial
restores from backup
Every change
written in the log

Included in this service

We start not with tooling but with one question: which services is your company unable to work without. Alarm thresholds and priorities follow from that.

Talk the scope through with an engineer

Takeover

A list of roles per machine: domain controllers, file shares, SQL Server hosting Comarch ERP XL or enova365, web and mail. Plus the end-of-support date of each operating system.

Hardware health

SMART data from drives, plus array, PSU and temperature readings pulled from iDRAC or iLO. The first hint of a weakening disk triggers a warranty claim rather than a wait for it to fail.

Patching

Windows in its standing slot, Linux with a separate eye on the PHP and database versions behind your shop. There is always a restore point.

Certificates and domains

We track expiry dates for SSL certificates, domains and licences, since a lapsed certificate can halt email or a web shop as surely as a dead disk.

Backups

Job results reviewed daily, and at intervals set in the contract a chosen server is actually brought back up from its copy.

Change log

Every intervention is recorded: who, when, what and why. Priceless during a NIS2 audit or a change of provider.

How we work together

The first weeks go on getting to know the estate. After that we work to a rhythm your own team knows too.

01

Access

We set up personal admin accounts and a secure channel, usually VPN with MFA. No shared passwords anywhere.

02

Baseline

Disks, overdue patches, backups and logs get checked. Anything pressing is fixed on the spot; the rest goes into the plan.

03

Sensors

Monitoring goes live, and we agree who receives which alarm at what hour.

04

Routine

Fixed slots, a monthly report and regular short online reviews.

The riskiest server is the one nobody remembers. An ageing NAS full of 2016 invoices, a PC under the manager's desk that somehow hosts the timesheet software, or a box with RDP open to the whole internet. Our inventory goes looking for precisely these, because they are how ransomware most often gets in.

Questions and answers

Without paid extended support it no longer gets security fixes, so exposure rises month by month, and defending it under NIS2 and the Polish KSC act is tough. We plan to shift its roles to a supported release or onto a cloud VM. Until then we fence it off on the network and watch it more closely.

Not automatically. With a UPS, reasonable temperatures and a spare-capacity connection, it can stay where it is. If the office has one internet line, no cooling and regular power cuts, colocation or a cloud VM tends to beat repeated outages on cost. We price both and show you the gap in zloty.

Fixes rated critical skip the queue and go in at a time agreed with you, the rest in the monthly slot. When CERT Polska flags a flaw under active attack, we do not wait for the window and aim to agree a slot with you that same day.

Naturally. The servers are yours, so credentials sit in a password vault you can open, and every admin account belongs to a named person. Should you ever switch provider, documentation and access are handed over without argument.

Show us your servers

Tell us what you run and where it lives. We come back with a few questions and an estimate of the monthly cost of looking after it.

Hours
Mon-Fri 8:00-18:00 CET, reply within one working day
Meetings
Online via Teams or Google Meet

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