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August has been a bit more quiet due to vacations. Unfortunately, my own vacations came in the way of finishing and publishing my sum-up for July. That’s why I’ll compare our numbers for August to those I published in my sum-up for June.

In August, our DevOps support took center stage. We spent a significant amount of time working with customers on launching new websites and optimising existing ones. Performance tuning is one of the main concerns here. freistilbox certainly offers everything a high-traffic website needs to master traffic peaks without hiccups. Achieving reliable performance, though, requires optimising the web application so it can fully take advantage of our hosting platform. That’s where our engineering support shines with deep expertise in Drupal and WordPress tuning. We collaborate with our customers via phone, email or web chat as soon as any question or issue arises until it is solved.

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We’re continuously expanding our infrastructure. Over the recent weeks, the number of websites we run on freistilbox increased by 22% to 394. With the number of websites, our web traffic also made a jump of 24% to 15.09 TB. Although a growing infrastructure means more points of failure, our monthly uptime stayed at an excellent value of 99.87% (+0.01%).

Help Center

As I’ve mentioned above, delivering DevOps support is taking up a growing portion of our time. The August numbers for support requests reflects that. That month, we received 29% more tickets (193) than in June. Nonetheless, we’ve kept our ticket backlog at 39 because we were able to resolve 161 tickets, a whopping 50% improvement!

Unfortunately, our average reaction time went up significantly by 144%. As the chart shows, we slightly improved in the area of quick responses but much higher percentage of customers had to wait for more than a business day, compared to June. We’ll investigate if that’s due to the nature of the actual support requests or if we need to tweak our Help Center processes. Since satisfaction feedback remained at a perfect 100% “good”, we’re confident that we’re still doing a great job.

Operations

With more websites a growth in IT infrastructure is to be expected, and the number of servers our ops team has to maintain actually increased by 24%. 373 hosts means that our server:sysadmin ratio is 187:1.

The number of metrics we collect even grew by 26%. We’re now collecting 124,642 metrics every 10s. In order to achieve the necessary I/O performance, we built a new metrics storage on SSD drives.

Causing us a bit of concern is the fact that the amount of on-call alerts went up by 20% in August (1378 alerts total). So it’s exactly at the right time that PagerDuty published “ Let’s talk about Alert Fatigue”. We’ll especially have to dig deeper on the aspect “Cut alerts that aren’t actionable & adjust thresholds”. Another important improvement will be eliminating alerts that only get triggered as a consequence of previous alerts (for example, identical shared storage space warnings from all the boxes of a freistilbox cluster).

Community events

While our web hosting platform only runs PHP-based applications, we use Ruby for a lot of internal applications and tools. That’s why Markus spent the first August weekend attending eurucamp at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam. It was amazing to see the inspiration he brought back. This can only be good for our latest Ruby-based project, the freistilbox Hosting API. We’ll let you know more on this important undertaking later. So stay tuned!

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On Sunday, 2014-08-03, freistilbox operation was severely disrupted due to a power failure at a datacenter.

We apologise for this outage. We take reliability seriously and an interruption of this magnitude as well as the impact it causes to our customers is unacceptable.

What happened

On Sunday, 2014-08-03, at 12:34 UTC, our on-call engineer was alerted by the monitoring system that a number of servers suddently went offline, and the list was quite long. This indicated a network outage, and we posted a short notice to our status page. We then immediately contacted datacenter support. While we didn’t get a direct answer first, the datacenter posted a first public status update at 12:54, explaining that server room RZ19 suffered an outage.

Since one of our server racks is located in this server room, the impact of this outage was severe. The affected rack hosts all kinds of servers including database and file storage nodes. Without these services, even application servers outside of RZ19 weren’t able to deliver content any more.

Since we run the nodes of our database clusters in different server rooms, we executed a failover procedure to the standby nodes of the affected databases. This restored operation for a part of our hosting infrastructure.

At about 13:00, our servers started to come back online. When we checked their uptime, we realised that they must have just had started up, so we suspected a power outage. This was confirmed when the datacenter announced that RZ19 had suffered a “brownout” that caused its servers to reboot. Later, the ISP added that a whole datacenter location suffered a power outage. The UPS systems of all server rooms had been able to compensate until the power generators had started up – with the exception of RZ19.

At about 14:00, most of our servers were running smoothly again. A few of our database servers had suffered data corruption and since we had already switched to their standby nodes, we decided to repair them later. At that time, it was more urgent to replace application boxes that still had not come back. Some of our customers choose to run single-node freistilbox clusters and the websites running on these boxes were still down. We launched new boxes on servers with spare capacity and at about 15:00, our infrastructure was fully functional again.

What we’re doing about it

Since we don’t run our own datacenters, we depend on our hosting partners when it comes to hardware infrastructure (servers, network, power, cooling etc.). We can’t prevent power outages, only trust that our infrastructure providers take all the necessary measures to prevent them.

What we can do ourselves is build our hosting architecture as resilient as possible in order to minimise the impact of a power outage. We have already built in a lot of redundancy into freistilbox. This enabled us, for example, to quickly switch to non-affected database servers as we did at the beginning of this incident. We have identified a few points, though, where an outage can cause bigger parts of our infrastructure to fail.

The most critical one of these points is our current storage technology. While it comes with data replication features (of which we make use, of course), it is hard to distribute data over server rooms or even distant datacenters without running into network latency issues. That’s why we’re currently testing alternative solutions that don’t have this weakness. As a beta test, we’re already running our own company freistilbox cluster (the one that’s hosting this website) on one of these alternatives. This means we’ll be able to further improve our storage resiliency very soon.

Another point is the private cloud infrastructure on which we run the application boxes of our customers’ freistilbox clusters. By adding more system automation, we’re going to minimise the time it takes us to spin up replacement boxes when that becomes necessary, for example and especially during an outage.

Again, we sincerely apologise to all our customers affected by this outage and thank them for their continued trust.

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In terms of Drupal events, there is no summer break; the best example being the DrupalCamping going on in Wolfsburg at the moment. I’m so sad that my schedule doesn’t allow me be there and camp with my German Drupal friends!

Fortunately, I get to attend DrupalCamp North East in Sunderland next weekend. I’m very much looking forward to fly over to the UK again for the third time this year because I enjoy the Drupal community there as much as the ones in Germany and Ireland.

Since community is one of our core values at freistil IT, we try to participate at these events as actively as possible. I’m proud to announce that my session proposal about “ DevOps with Drupal” has been accepted and I’ll do my very best to explain how embedding development in operations and vice versa can improve working with Drupal in a great way.

If you’re also going to be at DrupalCamp NE next weekend, give me a shout via Twitter! I’ll happily arrange sharing a few drinks and great news about our new Partner Programme!

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Philipp started in May as the first employee of freistil IT Ltd. He is a long-time system administrator with a lot of experience in operating web-scale infrastructure.

Since May, Philipp has been going through Operations Bootcamp, a training series where new sysadmins learn everything they need about our tools, processes and especially all the software we run on our servers. He also started taking care of day-to-day tasks like support requests or the replacement of old infrastructure.

Here’s what Philipp makes of his first weeks at freistil IT:

Life before freistil IT

“My job before freistil was nine years of corporate work that I don’t want to have missed, but I’m really happy that it’s over now. I’ve learned a lot in different teams and environments over the time, and I had the chance to learn from some of the best developers and IT system cracks I’ve met so far. But being a small wheel in a large machine can be very frustrating, and from some point on, there’s only little chance to level up.”

What made freistil IT stand out?

“Let’s say “nine years are enough”! :) I felt the need for something new, and it should be something smaller, more flexible, and should not have anything to do with operating JBoss application servers. ;) Being given the opportunity to work remotely is a completely new experience to me. I wanted to try this way of working and the job offer from freistil was the only one I got featuring this. And last but not least, I knew Jochen before, so I knew the start would be a bit easier than in a completely new working environment.”

What are your first impressions of the team and culture?

“The team (and here, I refer more to Jochen and Markus than to myself) is highly skilled and quite enthusiastic. My learning curve is not a curve at all, it’s more like a vertical line, which can be strenuous sometimes, but at the end of the day is exactly what I was looking for. The culture is new, fresh, and free. Fantastic when you’re coming from a musty corporate environment.”

What do want to achieve with the operations team?

“Keep it up and running, but also pull it to the latest trends and never let the needs of our customers out of sight. And I’m looking forward to get more involved in the Open Source community, which is much easier here at freistil IT, I think.”

Thanks, Philipp! We’re happy to have you on our team and are looking forward to a great time!

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If you’re familiar with my monthly retrospectives, you know they come with a lot of numbers. Let’s start with these: 7:1 ! That’s what proper teamwork looks like, folks!

At freistil IT, we enjoy our effective collaboration, too. While Philipp is still going through Operations Bootcamp (for an IT infrastructure like ours, there’s a lot of ground to cover), he’s also started to assist in production changes. We’ll soon post a blog entry with his first impressions of our small business. Markus decided to examine the life of a digital nomad for a few weeks: He’s traveling around Germany with his family in a camping van and takes care of our servers and your support requests via mobile broadband and local WiFi hotspots. And I’m enjoying a magnificent Irish summer at home, trying not to get a sunburn!

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In June, more than 40 new websites launched on our hosting platform, increasing the total by 15% to 324. With the number of websites, our total traffic also grew: We delivered 12.15 terabytes of content in June, 3.7% more than in the month before.

Another number makes us very happy, too: We managed to keep the overall availability at an excellent level of 99,97% (99.98% in May).

Help Center

While the number of engineering support requests was exactly the same as in May (150), our resolution rate somehow was 15% lower with 107 tickets compared to 126 in May. We’ll need to have a look at possible causes.

On the other hand, we’ve improved our average reaction time by whopping 35%, from 9.7 hours down to only 6.3h. The reaction time breakdown below shows that we were able to cut the number of customers that had to wait more than 24 hours for a first reply by almost 60%!

We’re also proud that we’ve kept a perfect score of 100% positive customer feedback. Judging from comments like “Very friendly and helpful. My request has been solved very quickly. Thanks for that.”, we’re doing a good job.

Operations

With the continuing success of freistilbox, our infrastructure grew by 6% to 300 servers. Our metrics monitoring even increased by 9% to 98,951 metric points that we collect every 10 seconds.

That at the same time the number of on-call alerts went down by 13% isn’t something we’ll complain about. ;-)

Community events

June was a bit less conference-heavy and while I manned the stations, the new ops team went on tour:

• Markus attended WordCamp Hamburg and gave a talk about automated WordPress development setups. When he sat down with our friends from Palasthotel to demonstrate our communication tools, it turned into an impromtu BoF on remote working!

• Just a few days later, both Philipp and Markus went to the Netherlands and brought back at lot of inspiration from DevOps Days Amsterdam.

This month, I’m looking forward to flying to England again for DrupalCamp North East. If you’re going to be there, shoot me an email and let’s have drinks together!

I’m also proud that I’ve been selected to present among the high-calibre speakers at the Open Source Monitoring Conference in November.

Usually, the coming months will be a bit more quiet because many of our customers take their vacation time (there it is again, that word…). Since our internal backlogs are looong, there won’t be any boredom, though. And of course, we’ll always be there if you need us!

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On Tuesday night, I had the opportunity to give a talk at the “Entrepreneurs Anonymous Dublin” meetup about my professional journey from my first VIC-20 home computer to my current business with hundreds of Linux boxes. I also explained our management philosophy and how we foster trust and motivation by giving our employees as much freedom as possible.

I took the DART train back to Bray with meeting host John Muldoon and he expressed his happiness to hear about a company that successfully implemented innovative approaches like ROWE and unlimited time off. He head read about such methods but in many discussions got the feedback that they could not work in practice. I beg to differ.

While we’re certainly a small company that is agile enough to experiment with novel HR methods, our approach actually is based on solid scientific findings. It’s a proven fact that creating a work environment of trust and freedom leads to better business.

There’s a great summary of current study results in the New York Times opinion piece “ Why You Hate Work”. The company of author Tony Schwartz conducted a study with more than 20,000 employees and the result came back clear without ambiguity:

“Employees are vastly more satisfied and productive, it turns out, when four of their core needs are met: physical, through opportunities to regularly renew and recharge at work; emotional, by feeling valued and appreciated for their contributions; mental, when they have the opportunity to focus in an absorbed way on their most important tasks and define when and where they get their work done; and spiritual, by doing more of what they do best and enjoy most, and by feeling connected to a higher purpose at work.”

So, are we some sort of business hippies when we aim at more satisfied employees? No, we are effective entrepreneurs:

“In a 2012 meta-analysis of 263 research studies across 192 companies, Gallup found that companies in the top quartile for engaged employees, compared with the bottom quartile, had 22 percent higher profitability, 10 percent higher customer ratings, 28 percent less theft and 48 percent fewer safety incidents.”

It makes at lot of business sense for us to ask “What would make our employees feel more valued, more productive and more inspired?” For example, our policy to not track work time lets people take breaks without guilt and recharge their creativity batteries.

“Employees who take a break every 90 minutes report a 30 percent higher level of focus than those who take no breaks or just one during the day. They also report a nearly 50 percent greater capacity to think creatively and a 46 percent higher level of health and well-being.”

By treating our employees as the adults they are, we send a clear signal that we value not only their skills but their whole personality. This strengthens their identification with the company and its goals:

“Employees who say they have more supportive supervisors are 1.3 times as likely to stay with the organization and are 67 percent more engaged.”

Our Results-Only Work Environment lets our team members focus on getting the important things done. Isn’t that one of the most essential things in a business? And as long as, when it comes to delivering results, the “what” and the “when” are okay, we simply don’t need to talk about the “how”.

“Only 20 percent of respondents said they were able to focus on one task at a time at work, but those who could were 50 percent more engaged.”

Another common HR topic is retention. When people actually turn out to be the great contributors we saw in them when we hired them, it’s obvious that we’d like to keep them for as long as possible. Well, that’s not that hard to achieve:

“Employees who derive meaning and significance from their work were more than three times as likely to stay with their organizations — the highest single impact of any variable in our survey.”

We really don’t worry about team members abusing their freedom, for example their unlimited time off. Worrying would actually hurt our chances of building a highly productive team:

“Partly, the challenge for employers is trust. For example, our study found that employees have a deep desire for flexibility about where and when they work — and far higher engagement when they have more choice. But many employers remain fearful that their employees won’t accomplish their work without constant oversight — a belief that ironically feeds the distrust of their employees, and diminishes their engagement.”

Trust is a business investment where the gains are much greater than the risks. For us, granting our employees as much freedom as possible is an obvious choice.

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In the “What’s Hot, What’s Not” index in a recent Irish Times Magazine, I found two work-related entries:

What’s Hot: Annual leave approval – Sweet, liberating relief.

What’s Not: Annual ‘Goal Setting’ at work – Taking your ambitions and shaping them into corporate jargon. When dreams get replaced by deliverables.

This brings back memories of my corporate past, and they’re not fond ones.

“Annual leave”. Just the name brings out the cynic in me. “You don’t have to work your ass off all of the year. We have reserved a few days in summer where you may take some PTO. But make sure that you’ll be back refreshed and ready to work for the next 11 months!”

And then there’s the “goal setting”. Done in a regular fashion in order to keep you on target. But only within intervals like quarterly or even yearly to not bother the manager who’s responsible for your performance too much. In between goal appraisals, you’re on your own, of course. Didn’t get the resources you needed approved? “You have to do more with less.” Got your priorities overruled by your own or some other manager again and again? “You need to keep focusing on your responsibilities!” Changes in strategy made your goal senseless? “You should think more big-picture!”

I’ve come to think of these practices as occupational therapy for managers who don’t have the skills to do any better. It’s passive management. And passive management is bad for the business.

Active management

That’s why we’re taking a radically different approach at freistil IT. In 2010, just when I was getting started with my company, Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson published their book “Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It: The Results-Only Revolution”. Reading it, I recognised many of the the bad management patterns they described because I had experienced them.

A Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE) is based on trust and accountability. If I trust my employees to put in the hours stated in their contract, I don’t need to count butts in chairs. If they deliver appropriate results, I don’t need to ask when or where they worked on achieving them. Treating people as trustworthy adults frees a lot of time to do actual management, e.g. creating individual career development plans or helping employees overcome problems they can’t solve left on their own devices. The catch: a ROWE requires active management.

Active management is what happens between meetings.

In today’s world, things change far too frequently for annual goals to retain any value. In software engineering, we’re using agile and lean methodologies to continuously resharpen our focus, to keep up with moving targets. Software is developed in weekly sprints instead of annual big-bang releases. Why should these agile approaches not also be applied to relationship and performance development (a.k.a. management)?

Unlimited PTO

At freistil IT, we don’t count work hours and give our employees unlimited time off. All we ask for is to give as many days advance notice as the vacation is going to have. You’ll probably ask: “And what happens if someone abuses this?” Then it’s probably time to talk to the employee about how they’re damaging their professional relationship with the whole company. It’s also necessary to look at the conditions in which this misbehaviour was able to develop. Were there mistakes made during the hiring process, since cultural fit is one of the most important selection criteria? Were there events that turned motivation into frustration and self-indulgence? Giving employees freedom and making sure that it’s not abused is active management.

Self-defined goals

In order to give our work the right direction, we use the V2MOM model that Marc Benioff created at Salesforce.com and described in his book “Behind the Cloud”. On every level of the company, we define

• the Vision for our business,
• the Values our work is based on
• the Methods we plan to employ
• the Obstacles we anticipate on the way and
• the Metrics we’re going to use to judge the success of our work.

We discuss and define these 5 aspects for the whole company, we break them down to the team level, and finally, every team member defines their own V2MOM based on the company and team model. Since transparency is one of our core values, we publish all V2MOM’s on our company wiki. Each V2MOM gets revised regularly, generally every quarter or biannually. Longer intervals are okay here because a vision is not necessarily a concrete goal. V2MOM is just the framework that helps us decide what is going to advance the business in the right direction and what not (the “V2” part). It also provides the basic tools (the “MOM” part) that we’ll need to make daily progress towards these goals. We then communicate our progress via IDoneThis and discuss it in weekly one-on-one talks. Aligning goals to an overarching strategy and continuously adjusting our aim is active management.

These two approaches actually go hand in hand. We are convinced that employees who fit our culture will not abuse their freedom. Because they understand the company’s vision and values and have discovered how their own vision and values fit into this framework, there’s no need for any micro-management. Instead, we let people make their own decisions and trust that it’ll be for the best of the business.

And judging from the results so far, “That’s Hot”.

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If you’re the type of customer we love the most, you’re a Drupal or WordPress shop that builds amazing websites. This requires great developers and these developers tend to know a thing or two about web infrastructure. So, why not have them also run the hosting of the websites they know best?

Let me tell you why not. Why I think that that’s a really bad idea that can quickly lead you to lose track of your main business goal, which is — remember — building amazing websites.

The world of web operations

Running a website that serves a lot of users is far from trivial. There are a lot of IT topics that need to be covered in order to build and operate an application that…

• …reliably and quickly delivers the information the user needs (= performance),
• …can cope with a steadily (or even exponentially!) growing user base (= scalability),
• …and is robust enough that smaller incidents (e.g. disk failure, network partitions) will not cause it to be inaccessible (= availability).

I found a detailed overview of all the important issues that an operations engineer needs to address in Mathias Meyer’s blog post “ Web Operations 101 For Developers”. It’s a long post and I highly recommend reading it in full (after you’ve finished this article).

Managing infrastructure

Every business relies on some kind of infrastructure. If you were a transport business, you’d rely on infrastructure like highways, gas stations and warehouses. Your business is based on web applications, so you rely on IT infrastructure like networks and server racks, operating systems and software applications.

Getting some kind of hosting infrastructure is easy. It’s just a few clicks over at Amazon Web Services or DigitalOcean. But in his article, Mathias points out the catch:

“Every little piece of it can break at any time, can stall at any time. The more pieces you have in your application puzzle, the more breaking points you have. And everything that can break, will break.”

Someone needs to manages this IT infrastructure. This could be you or someone from your team, it could also be someone you specifically hire for that task. And keeping stuff running requires know-how and experience:

“You don’t need to know everything about every piece of hardware out there, but you should be able to investigate strengths and weaknesses, when an SSD is an appropriate tool to use, and when SAS drives will kick butt. Learn to distinguish the different levels of RAID, why having an additional file system buffer on top of a RAID that doesn’t have a backup battery for its own internal write buffer is a bad idea. That’s a pretty good start, and will make decisions much easier.”

I’d say that’s quite a laundry list of insight that doesn’t come by just reading some manuals. And that’s only the hardware aspect – Mathias also details a separate list for the operating system level.

Is this how you want to spend valuable engineering time?

Managing incidents

There will come the time when stuff hits the fan.

“You should be willing to dig into whatever data you have posthumous to find whatever went wrong, whatever caused a strange latency spike in database queries, or caused an unusually high amount of errors in your application.”

Troubleshooting and incident response are a special area of expertise that requires both deep knowledge and experience to find and eliminate the problem’s root causes.

Is this how you want to spend valuable engineering time?

Managing automation

Deploying your application to a single server is easy and it’s actually not that much more demanding to use version control software like Git or even a Continuous Integration tool like Capistrano. But how about deploying a new app version to 5 or 15 servers? What if that new version alters the database schema making it incompatible with older versions, so all servers need to updated at the same time instead of sequentially?

As Mathias points out in his post, you need automation:

”There’s an abundance of tools available to automate infrastructure, hand-written script are only the simplest part of it. Once you go beyond managing just one or two servers, tools like Chef, Puppet and MCollective come in very handy to automate everything from setting up bare servers to pushing out configuration changes from a single point, to deploying code.”

But before you will be able to benefit from the high efficiency these tools offer, you need to learn how they work and how you describe to them the infrastructure you want them to build.

Is this how you want to spend valuable engineering time?

Managing growth

Over its lifetime, your web application will probably become more complex and with it the IT infrastructure required to support it. You’ll add a caching service here, a key-value database there – want a PHP extension with that? All these add-ons need to be installed, configured and fine-tuned.

“Whenever you add a new component, a new feature to an application, you add a new point of failure.”

Complex systems tend to break in very “interesting” ways, so troubleshooting will also become more difficult as your application grows.

Is this how you want to spend valuable engineering time?

Managing health

Only by monitoring the current status of your hosting components and recording metrics about their performance over time, you can make decisions when things start to behave strangely, or — better yet — before they do so.

“I can’t say it enough how important having a proper monitoring and metrics gathering system in place is. It should be by your side from day one of any testing deployment.”

So you’ll soon decide to get some monitoring software and a metrics collection service in place. But that’s just the start:

“You’ll never get alerting and thresholds right the first time, you’ll adapt over time, identifying false negatives and false positives, but if you don’t have a system in place at all, you’ll never know what hit your application or your servers.”

Is this how you want to spend valuable engineering time?

Managing logs

Probably every service in your hosting infrastructure writes some kind of log where it saves details about the things it does and events that happen. That’s very useful:

“In case of an emergency, a good set of log files will mean the world to you. This doesn’t just include the standard set of log files available on a Unix system. It includes your application and all services involved too.”

But each service will log its own kind of details in its individual format, sometimes as a text file, sometimes in a database. It takes a lot of time to learn how to find and understand the relevant stories buried in thousands of lines of text scattered over different sources.

Is this how you want to spend valuable engineering time?

Managing failure

Failure will happen. All the time.

“The bottom line of everything is, stuff breaks, everything breaks at different scale. Embrace breakage and failure, it will help you learn and improve your knowledge and skill set over time.”

In our experience, failures will almost every time lead to better insight, improved skills and a more robust hosting infrastructure. But:

Is this how you want to spend valuable engineering time?

Stay on course

The answer is No. No, you most certainly don’t want to spend valuable engineering time on doing all these daily IT operations tasks. They tend to get more and more expensive over time, and, more importantly, they distract you from your core business.

Behind freistilbox, there’s a team of IT experts that know how to manage a growing business-critical infrastructure. We take care of all daily (and nightly) operations tasks, handle incidents and make sure that your website runs with optimal performance.

By fully managing your hosting platform, we enable you to keep a laser-like focus on your mission: building amazing websites.

That’s how you should spend every second of valuable engineering time.

How you can do DevOps without an ops team

Better yet, we’re available to you like an in-house ops team, via phone, email and chat; with our Premium Support, you can even reach us 24/7.

• Got a question about HTTP caching headers? We’ll explain them to you over the phone.
• You need help in optimising a database query? Send us a support request and we’ll work out a solution.
• You’d like us to keep an eye on our servers while you launch your new website? We’ll set up a chat room where you get instant answers and live updates how your hosting platform is keeping up.

This is much more than just technical support, it’s decades of IT know-how at your fingertips during the whole life cycle of your web application. And it’s included for free in all our hosting packages.

freistilbox is not only high-performance web hosting, it’s DevOps done right.

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