CloudTech On-Demand
One-time services, just when you need them.
Is your Grid or DV site ready for success? Our in-house certified engineers can help speed up your site, set up your applications, back up your data, and give you peace of mind.
Available for Grid and DV customers.
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CloudTech On-Demand for Grid
Set Up Secure Local Backups
You never know when disaster will strike. But you can always be prepared, with CloudTech backups. The CloudTech team will create a backup routine using your Grid storage allocations (100GB). If you need local access to day-old backups on the fly, this service is a perfect complement to your default disaster recovery system.
Disaster Recovery
CloudTech engineers will restore website data from our disaster recovery system and move it back into place on the Grid.
Move a Site
Our migration specialists will seamlessly move your website from another host to your Grid service. Just tell us a bit about the site you want moved, and we’ll take care of the rest.
Front-End Site Review
Faulty code, outdated plugins, and other front-end problems can slow your site load times to a crawl. CloudTech engineers can run a full front-end performance report, help pinpoint why the response time might be high, and provide suggestions on how to improve it. This service would benefit anyone who demands fast and responsive websites—which is just about everyone.
Database Administration
MySQL, backup, restore, repairs & optimization. Database administration can be cumbersome and panic—inducing if you’re not familiar with MySQL. Our team of CloudTech engineers can help tune, repair, optimize and backup your database so that things are running as smoothly as possible. Recommended for CMS users without system administration experience.
Script/Directory Permissions
Content management systems, blogs and contact forms rely on precise file/folder permissions. CloudTech can apply the correct settings so your site functions properly and securely.
DNS Configuration
For advanced setups that serve static assets from a subdomain or CDN, you’ll probably need to make changes to DNS. CloudTech engineers can ensure that these DNS updates are configured properly.
SSL Installation
The hardest part of setting up your online storefront can be installing a third-party SSL certificate. From the certificate signing request, to the private key and the certificate itself, CloudTech can help ensure that your SSL is configured properly and serving your site securely over HTTPS.
Web Application Setup
From content management to image galleries and e-commerce, web applications can make your life so much easier. But Each web application, be it WordPress, Drupal, or Joomla, has its own set of system requirements. CloudTech engineers can install a variety of different web applications and configure them to work within the parameters of the Grid.
WordPress Plugin Setup
A CloudTech engineer will install and configure any current, stable plugin for your WordPress site.
Email Client Setup
A CloudTech engineer will remotely connect to your computer and set up your email client to work with your (mt) mailbox.
FTP Client Setup
A CloudTech engineer will remotely connect to your computer and set up your FTP client to connect with the Grid.
Application Security Audit
A CloudTech engineer will audit your server security settings and make recommendations on how to improve security from best practices.
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Backup Setup
You never know when disaster will strike. But you can always be prepared, with CloudTech backups. The CloudTech team can configure Plesk-level backups at regular intervals for any DV domain.
Disaster Recovery
CloudTech engineers will restore website data from our disaster recovery system and move it back into place on your DV server.
Move a Site
Our migration specialists will seamlessly move your website from another host to your DV service. Just tell us a bit about the site you want moved, and we’ll take care of the rest.
Advanced Performance Analysis
Having trouble pinpointing why your website is performing slowly? You could spend days figuring it out—or you could let the CloudTech team get to the bottom of performance issues and make recommendations based on our findings.
- Inspect front-end code to ensure images/css/javascripts are optimized
- Inspect error logs for misconfigured code
- Provide a detailed review of performance notes
Apache Performance Tuning
Users don’t have time to wait for content to load, especially when there’s a lot of traffic on your site. Apache is known as the “Swiss army knife” of web servers, and for good reason. While its configuration options and flexibility make it a great choice, it can also be difficult to scale. Our team can help tune Apache for maximum performance.
- Configure Apache based on the amount of resources (RAM/CPU) your DV is allowed
- Adjust Apache settings for optimal traffic levels
- Disable unused Apache modules that consume memory
- Configure content to be compressed using mod_deflate
- Set appropriate Expires, Etag, and Cache-Control Head
MySQL Optimization
A finely tuned MySQL database means faster, more efficient sites that can handle more traffic. If terms like sharding, scaling and sockets scare you, let our CloudTech engineers take care of optimizing your database server.
- Import/export databases
- Repair crashed tables
- Enable slow query logging
- Configure optimal query caching
- Help find bottlenecks in your application code
Script/Directory Permissions
Content management systems, blogs and contact forms rely on precise file/folder permissions. CloudTech can apply the correct settings so your site functions properly and securely.
Email Queue Management
Mass email may create an unwanted queue that slows down your server and further delays delivery of time-sensitive data. Let CloudTech help by clearing out email data to resolve these issues.
Web Application Setup
From content management to image galleries and e-commerce, web applications can make your life so much easier. But Each web application, be it WordPress, Drupal, or Joomla, has its own set of system requirements. CloudTech engineers can install a variety of different web applications and configure them to work within the parameters of the DV.
DNS Configuration
For advanced setups that serve static assets from a subdomain or CDN, you’ll probably need to make changes to DNS. CloudTech engineers can ensure that these DNS updates are configured properly.
PHP Module Installation
Many of today’s most popular web applications require sophisticated PHP modules, only some of which come installed by default on DV servers. The CloudTech team can install additional PHP modules that are compatible with our systems and Plesk.
SSL Installation
The hardest part of setting up your online storefront can be installing a third-party SSL certificate. From the certificate signing request, to the private key and the certificate itself, CloudTech can help ensure that your SSL is configured properly and serving your site securely over HTTPS.
WordPress Plugin Setup
A CloudTech engineer will install and configure any current, stable plugin for your WordPress site.
VPN Setup
A CloudTech engineer will install and configure a VPN (virtual private network) and ensure that you can connect to it securely.
Email Client Setup
A CloudTech engineer will remotely connect to your computer and set up your email client to work with your (mt) mailbox.
FTP Client Setup
A CloudTech engineer will remotely connect to your computer and set up your FTP client to connect with your DV server.
Security Audit
A CloudTech engineer will audit your server security settings and make recommendations on how to improve security from best practices.
Intrusion Prevention
We’ll install and configure Fail2Ban, a powerful, Python-based intrusion prevention framework, on your DV server.
Custom Firewall Rules
A CloudTech engineer will create or remove firewall (iptables) rules based on your specifications.
1:1 Consultation
Our engineers love nothing better than sharing their knowledge with customers. We’ll provide an enhanced 1-hour training session to answer all your questions about how the DV works, from the most obvious to the most obscure.
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