The article
A server rarely fails without warning. The warnings are just quiet: an https certificate someone renews by hand, a disk slowly filling up with logs, a system nobody has updated since the person who set it up left the company.
Our server maintenance services look after the software side of the servers behind your sites and apps. DevOps engineers apply updates, keep certificates renewing on their own, fix what breaks and change the setup when your software needs it, and they work next to the developers who write the code. Below is what that includes, how the price is set, and a ten-minute check you can run on your own servers today.
Server maintenance services: the short version
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What we look after | The system and its packages, https certificates, the setup, fixes when something breaks |
| Where the servers can be | AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, or anywhere else after a first look |
| How it starts | Access, a review of what runs on the servers, then a plan with a price |
| Price | Estimated after the review, before any contract; the first call and the rough estimate are free |
| Separate services | Backups, a move to the cloud and running a whole cloud account |
What we do, and what we leave to others
We work on what runs on a server, not on the machine itself. In October 2026 I measured five company pages from the top of Google for this search, and three of them come from vendors of hardware upkeep: spare parts, engineers on site, support after the manufacturer's warranty runs out. That is a different job: a failed disk or power supply in your own rack stays with the manufacturer's warranty or a hardware maintenance provider.
Our part fits in five lines:
- Updates of the system and its packages, when they are needed.
- Certificates for https that renew on their own.
- Fixes when something on a server breaks.
- Changes to the setup when your software needs them.
- Answers from the DevOps engineers who know your setup.
Two things are not on this list. Copies of your data are a service of their own, cloud backup, and so is a move to the cloud.
How a server maintenance plan comes together
A plan comes after we look, never before. It takes four steps:
- Access. You give us access to the servers and tell us what you know runs on them: the sites, the apps, the scheduled jobs. If nobody knows, the review finds out.
- Review. We list what is installed, what is outdated and what is exposed to the internet.
- Plan. What we update, what we fix first and the price.
- Contract. The scope and the price go into a server maintenance contract, in writing, before the work starts.
What server maintenance costs per year
The price depends on how many servers you run, where they run and what runs on them, so we name it after the review. One server under a small site and a dozen machines under a SaaS product are different jobs, and one figure for both would be wrong for one of them.
None of the five pages I measured publishes a price either. Our one fixed maintenance price, $29 a month, billed annually ($348), covers hosting and support of the websites we build: that is website maintenance. Servers get a monthly fee set in the estimate, as our pricing page says, and that estimate is free and comes before any contract.
A server maintenance company that also writes the code
A server's trouble, or its bill, often comes from the code running on it, and then the fix belongs in the code. Many server support services stop at the server; ours come from a company of 70+ specialists, where a developer works next to the DevOps engineer. Three examples:
- Muzychko Vocal School. An hour after the site's certificate was issued, a bot was trying the admin 102 times a minute: it had found the new domain in the public logs where every certificate is recorded. The admin moved to a secret path. On the same site the server ignored a browser's requests for parts of a video, so the clips could not loop cleanly, and a developer fixed it in the code.
- AAE Plugin. GPUs are expensive, and AI models change fast. An asynchronous design that runs GPU workers on demand ended the cost of hardware sitting idle.
- Our own site. When the server behind our company site stops answering, visitors do not get a bare 502 error. They get our own page that says we are back in a minute, reloads itself when the site returns and gives a phone number and an email; it is rebuilt from the live content at every release.
Check your servers in ten minutes
Run this check before you hire anyone; it works whoever looks after your servers today. Every answer you cannot get is a finding, and three vague answers mean your servers need a review before they need anything else.
| Check | How | A good answer |
|---|---|---|
| The https certificate | Click the icon next to your address in the browser and open the certificate | It renews on its own |
| Updates | Ask when security updates were last applied | A date, not a guess |
| Disk space | Ask how much free space each server has | Room to spare, and someone who watches it |
| A server that stops | Ask what a visitor sees when the server does not answer | Your own page with a contact |
| Access | List everyone who can log in as an administrator | People who still work with you, each with a login of their own |
| Backups | Ask when a copy was last restored, not only made | A recent date |
| Who hears first | Ask who gets the alert at night on a Saturday | A named person |
What stays yours
The servers, the cloud accounts and the domains stay in your company's name. We work through access you grant and can take back at any time, and we write down every access and every service we touch, so changing providers one day means revoking a list of logins, not searching for them.
Neighbouring services
If your servers live in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud and you want patches on a schedule, disks and memory watched and backups checked by restoring them, that is cloud server maintenance, part of managed cloud. When the trouble sits in the application, see software maintenance; everything we look after is under IT support.
Tell us where your servers run. On weekdays from 9 am to 6 pm Miami time we answer a new request within 30 minutes, and after the review you get a server maintenance plan with its price.
