DevOps
The server should be the boring part.
Ubuntu, nginx, DNS, TLS and deployment — set up so that shipping a change is one command, and a certificate expiring at three in the morning is not an event anybody finds out about from a customer.
The most checkable thing here: this domain runs on exactly that setup — nginx on a shared VPS, free Let's Encrypt TLS, renewal verified, the whole runbook written down.
What people actually call about
Get off the hosting that is costing you
Shared hosting that throttles at the worst moment, or a managed plan billing enterprise money for a brochure site. Moved to a VPS you own, with the DNS cutover planned so nothing goes dark.
Make deploying boring
One command, the same every time, with a way back. The alternative is a person editing files on a live server at ten at night, which is how most small sites eventually break.
Stop certificates being an event
Free TLS with renewal that has been watched actually renewing — not set up once and assumed. An expired certificate tells every visitor your site is unsafe, usually on a Saturday.
Write down how it works
A runbook covering where things live, how to deploy, and how to recover. It exists so that you are never one unavailable freelancer away from a site nobody can touch.
What that includes
- Ubuntu VPS provisioned, hardened, and written down
- nginx, DNS and TLS, with renewal that is verified rather than assumed
- Repeatable deploys, so shipping stops being a ritual performed by hand
- A runbook you keep, because you should not be locked to me
Sized for a small business
This is not Kubernetes for a site with four hundred visitors a month. The whole point is the smallest arrangement that is reliable, cheap to run and possible for someone else to understand — because complexity you cannot afford to maintain is not resilience, it is a second problem.
Once it is standing up, keeping it that way isthe management retainer, which is a separate decision you can make later or never.
Tell me where it lives now.
The host, roughly what it costs, and what goes wrong. I will tell you whether moving is worth it — including when the answer is to stay where you are.