Solution bundle

Managed VPS Onboarding

Rent the box wherever you want. We make it production-ready.

From $390 one-time · Turnaround: 2-4 business days
Any provider, your account Hetzner, DigitalOcean, OVH, Lightsail
Hardened before handover SSH keys only, firewall, fail2ban
Fixed price, no retainer required Pay once, monitoring optional after
Production-ready in days Most onboardings done in 2-4 days

A fresh VPS is a root login and an empty Ubuntu. That’s it. No firewall worth the name, root logging in over SSH with a password, no backups, no panel, nothing watching it. Most guides walk you through the first ten commands and stop right before the parts that actually keep the server up. We do the whole onboarding: lock down access, stand up the web stack and a panel, wire backups and monitoring, and hand you a server you can put a real site on the same week.

The catch with most “managed VPS” offers is that they only manage the box you rent from them. We don’t sell hosting. Rent your VPS from Hetzner, DigitalOcean, OVH, AWS Lightsail, Contabo, wherever the price and region suit you, and we set it up. You keep the provider account and the root credentials. We just make the thing ready.

What's bundled

Services we combine

What's in the bundle

What you receive

This is the setup a careful sysadmin does on day one, packaged at a fixed price so you don't have to do it yourself or pay by the hour to find out what you forgot.

Non-root sudo user, SSH key login, password and root SSH login disabled
Firewall (ufw or nftables) and fail2ban configured for your open ports
Panel installed and configured (CyberPanel by default, or cPanel/Plesk on request)
Web stack: LiteSpeed or Nginx, the PHP version you need, MariaDB, Redis if wanted
Automatic daily backups to off-server storage, restore tested once
Monitoring: uptime check plus disk, RAM, and load alerts to your inbox
Swap, timezone, automatic security updates, and basic kernel limits set
Handover doc: every credential, what's installed, and how to add a site
Who it's for

Who it's for

This is for the founder who rented a $12 Hetzner box because it’s a third of the managed-hosting price, then opened the SSH window and closed it again. It’s for the agency standing up a new client server and wanting it hardened the same way every time. It’s for the developer who can write the app but doesn’t want to own firewall rules and backup cron jobs at 2am. If you’ve read a “production-ready VPS” tutorial and bailed at the firewall section, this is the job. For ongoing patching and break-fix after we hand it over, that’s our Linux server support work, billed separately.

Cost-driven founders

Rented a cheap VPS, stalled at the SSH prompt.

Agencies

Want every client server hardened the same way.

App developers

Can ship the code, don't want to own the server.

How it runs

How it runs

You give us SSH access to the fresh VPS and tell us what’s going on it: WordPress, a Node app, OpenCart, a mail server, whatever. We do the hardening and the stack on the live box (it has no traffic yet, so there’s nothing to break) and check each piece as we go. We test a backup restore before we call it done, because a backup you’ve never restored isn’t a backup. You get a handover doc with every credential and the steps to drop your first site on.

1

Access & plan

You share root or sudo SSH access; we confirm provider, OS, and what's being hosted.

Day 1
2

Harden

Non-root user, SSH keys, firewall, fail2ban, automatic security updates.

Day 1-2
3

Stack & panel

Panel, web server, PHP, database, and cache installed and configured.

Day 2-3
4

Backups, monitoring, handover

Off-server backups with a tested restore, alerts wired, doc delivered.

Day 3-4
Pricing

Price and what happens after

Onboarding starts at $390 for a single VPS with our default CyberPanel stack. cPanel or Plesk licensing, a mail server, or a multi-site setup adds to that, and we quote it after we know the spec. One payment, no retainer. If you want us watching the server and applying patches afterward, that’s a monthly support plan you can add or skip.

Tech we use

Tooling we lean on

Ubuntu Debian CyberPanel LiteSpeed Nginx MariaDB Redis ufw fail2ban Hetzner DigitalOcean OVH AWS Lightsail
Where this fits

Where this fits

This is the first-week version of our Linux server support, packaged so you know the price before we touch the box. We default to CyberPanel because it gives you LiteSpeed, LSCache, and a backup UI without the cPanel license cost, the same stack we run our own sites on. Once the server is live, a server hardening review is worth it before you point production DNS at it, and our hosting support plans cover the patching and monitoring afterward.

Managed VPS Onboarding

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