Finding a great Linux System Administrator to care and feed your Linux web farm and server infrastructure is like striking the Mother Lode because we all know what it’s like when your key web server(s) crash and all the corporate management eyes turn on you to move heaven and earth to get all systems back online, or else.

Nope, that is not a comfortable place to be for any IT executive and thus what a pleasure it was to discover Reliable Penguin – a core team of 10+ Linux System Administrators each with at least 10 years of solid experience providing hourly, incident or managed service for one or more Linux servers.

Great service, very knowledgeable and providing round the clock support!

Reliable Penguin offers a comprehensive menu of Systems Administration services for Linux servers and popular 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, Drupal and other popular web applications.
• 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 they have expertise in:

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

Reliable Penguin is one of your best sources for systems administration services because they are:

• Highly Experienced – The Reliable Penguin team is highly experienced. Each engineer has at least 10 years of professional experience working with Linux servers.
• Aggressively Responsive – Reliable Penguin strive to tackle problems rapidly and with enthusiasm. We take each problem personally and will not give up until we find a solution.
• Leverage Broad Client Base – Working on thousands of different servers around the work each year helps Reliable Penguin maintain an extensive knowledge base that gets leveraged across all of our clients.
• Proactive Approach – Reliable Penguin strives to minimize problems by following a proactive management philosophy.
• Economical – With low overhead and minimal sales and marketing cost, Reliable Penguin, is able to offer highly economical rates.