Technical Expertise
We work with a number of different technologies of interest for companies with an Internet service of any description. These technologies include:
- LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
- PHP programming, in particular the excellent DooPHP framework with Smarty templating system
- MySQL (tuning, replication)
- Load Balancing
- High Availability (Keepalived, LVS)
- Squid Proxy / Reverse Proxy
- Tomcat Management
- Firewall (iptables)
- Content Management Systems
- Codecharge (Rapid Development System)
- DNS
- Load Testing
- System Automation / Scripting
- And many more...
Our particular expertise is fault finding, diagnostics and disaster recovery. Our clients use our services to implement new technologies, to increase fault tolerance and improve reliability and availability of their services.
Due to our long experience with Internet technologies (working in the field since 1995), we're able to bring a number of benefits to our client organisations:
- New ideas for old problems - we have often experienced your problems before, or know technologies that can resolve your issues.
- Providing all-round knowledge and experience - many consultants are experts in one single technology; we know how most technologies fit together and use this to deliver effective solutions rapidly.
- A commercial viewpoint of technology - we have both the technical knowledge and the business understanding to provide a commercially beneficial solution.
- Short or long term consultancy - our projects range from short term with a duration of days through to projects lasting months.