Reliable Penguin offers a comprehensive menu of Systems Administration services for Linux servers and open source applications including:

• General Administration – Full range of day-to-day administrative functions including user management, application configuration, backups, security, resource monitoring, diagnostics and troubleshooting, etc.
• Software Upgrades – Update operating systems, services and applications. The single strongest preventative security measure is to maintain current versions of all applications. Reliable Penguin can install operating system updates and upgrade major applications like PHP, MySQL or Apache. Additionally, Reliable Penguin can install and integrate updated application versions such as Joomla, vBulletin and Drupal.
• Performance Optimization - Review and enhance server performance by optimizing server and database configuration.
• Application Scaling – Provide assistance in developing and implementing solutions to scale applications including load balancers, session management, content replication and shared storage.
• Security Remediation – Rapid assessment and repair of security issues identified in PCI compliance scans. Professional forensics and cleanup of server security compromises.

Here are a few of the technologies and applications that we have expertise in:

• Application servers - Apache / Tomcat / JBoss
• Programming languages - PHP / Perl / Python / Ruby / TCL / Shell Scripting
• Networking – IPTables / NAT / TC
• Network services - DNS / DHCP / NTP / SNMP / Squid Proxy / OpenLDAP
• Email - Qmail / Postfix / Exim / Sendmail / Spam Assassin
• Databases – MySQL / PostgreSQL

Systems Administration services are provided on three programs – Hourly, Per Incident and Monthly Contract.