Hosting & Web Infrastructure Consulting

A hosting health check for your website

If your website slows down during a campaign, the hosting bill keeps rising or only one person knows how to deploy a change, I can help you work out where to start. I work with businesses, charities and ministries on the servers, databases and release processes behind their websites.

What I look at

• Slow pages and traffic peaks. I trace a request through the application, cache and database to find where visitors are kept waiting. At Comic Relief, that meant profiling Drupal pages and tuning Redis for fundraising campaigns.
• Risk and recovery. I review how you monitor failures, apply security updates and restore service. We look at what your team would actually do if a release failed or a server went offline.
• Hosting costs. I compare the capacity you pay for with the traffic you serve, including the busy days. That gives you a basis for deciding whether to tune, resize or move a service.
• Releases and handover. I help teams make deployments repeatable and document how to reverse a change. At LexisNexis, I built automated releases for publishing platforms.

What you get from the review

We start with the service your users rely on and the problem your team sees. I explain the findings in plain English and set out which changes deserve attention first, which can wait and why. If you need help implementing them, we can agree that work together.

My Christian faith shapes how I approach consultancy. In practice, that means being candid about risk, taking care with your budget and leaving your team able to look after its own systems.

Ask about a hosting health check or email me directly. A description of what happens, when it happens and who it affects is enough to start.