I will debug your linux server, nginx, SSL, dns, or app deployment
DevSecOps and Automation Engineer
About this Gig
Your site is down, Nginx throws 502s, the SSL certificate will not renew, DNS points somewhere wrong, or a service dies every night and you do not know why. Server problems are stressful because everything is invisible until you know where to look.
I administer Linux systems daily as an infrastructure engineer: services, logs, networking, reverse proxies, and app deployments on AWS and VPS hosts. I find the actual cause, fix it, and leave a handoff note with the commands and reasoning, so next time you can check it yourself.
What I fix:
- Nginx/reverse proxy errors (502/504, misrouted domains, broken configs)
- SSL certificates: issuance, renewal, redirects (Let's Encrypt/certbot)
- DNS records that do not resolve where they should
- Services crashing or failing to start (systemd, logs, ports, permissions)
- App deployments (Node.js, Python) that will not come up on the server
- Disk full, memory pressure, runaway processes
How it works: you describe the symptom and share temporary access (or the configs and logs), I diagnose, fix, verify, and hand off.
Not offered: hacking, recovering compromised servers, or work on machines you do not own.
Server:
Virtual private server
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DNS
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Nginx
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Web server
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App server
Operating system:
Linux
FAQ
What access do you need?
A temporary SSH user (ideally with sudo) that you create for the order and delete after delivery. If you cannot grant access, I can often work from configs and log excerpts you paste, but diagnosis is slower.
Is it safe to give you access?
Use a dedicated temporary user, never your own account, and revoke it the moment the order closes. I will list every command I ran in the handoff note.
What counts as one issue?
One symptom with one root cause, for example Nginx returning 502 for my app. If I find a second independent problem, I tell you first and quote it separately.
My server was hacked. Can you clean it?
No. Compromise recovery needs forensics and a rebuild, which is beyond a fixed-price gig done safely. I can help you set up a clean replacement server instead (Premium package).
Which distros do you work with?
Ubuntu and Debian are my daily drivers; most mainstream distros including the RHEL family are fine for the covered tasks.
