More backups
Helping customers manage and monitor backups with SyncBack Pro on Windows — email, files, and sync to OneDrive, FTP and more.
Work
Recent projects
A selection of things I've built, migrated or had a hand in — across the day job, consultancy and the odd side venture.
Patching
After WSUS's decline, settling on Action1 to patch customers' Windows fleets — free up to 200 devices.
Proxmox Backup Server
Standing up Proxmox Backup Server for customers, backing up to NFS, SMB and local, then syncing to B2.
Hosted UniFi controller
Building and migrating a customer onto a hosted, managed UniFi controller over a weekend.
Config backups
A NextCloud (and rclone/WebDAV) home for customers' small config backups — firewalls, Home Assistant, UniFi — doubled up to B2.
Microsoft 365 backups
Making Microsoft 365 backup affordable for customers with self-hosted CubeBackup to B2.
Server monitoring
Modernising a customer's Nagios/NConf monitoring with openITCOCKPIT — NRPE-compatible, so it dropped straight in.
Proxmox cluster upgrade
An onsite hardware refresh and health check of a 15-year-old three-node Proxmox/Ceph cluster for an MSP client.
Mastodon setup
Helping a local business build community on Mastodon — support and connection, not sales.
Hosted server to Proxmox
P2V-ing a local business onto a UK hosted Proxmox server — lower costs, more resilience, fully backed up for the first time.
WordPress — single-page site
My first full single-page site, exploring corners of Elementor I hadn't used before.
Hyper-V to Proxmox migration
Moving 1TB and a set of Gen-2 VMs off Hyper-V onto Proxmox over a weekend, ahead of Windows dropping the free hypervisor.
Microsoft 365 migration
Migrating ~100 users from on-prem Zimbra to Exchange Online in a weekend, permissions intact, via custom PowerShell.
WordPress website — therapist
Revamping a therapist's personal site after the clinic build, with day-one editing for the owner.
NextCloud — family photo store
A private, family-owned photo backup on a VPS — ownership over convenience.
WordPress website — designer
A site for a graphic designer that reflects her style and energy.
Website — image hosting
A password-protected image and video hosting site built from two open-source projects, with a separate admin area.
WordPress website — artist
A custom WordPress/Elementor Pro site for an artist with cart, image upload and order tracking — self-manageable.
Custom virtualisation platform — Hyper-V
A full Hyper-V infrastructure for a local business that cost less than their single dedicated server.
Process optimisation
Onsite work helping a client get more from new software — culture and process changes for a more flexible way of working.
Custom virtualisation platform — ESXi on OVH
Building our own dedicated VMware ESXi platform with OVH, replicated to a second European datacentre.
Custom virtualisation platform — Proxmox
A Proxmox platform for a client — containers and VMs in one console, with firewall and 2FA on the management interface.
WordPress website — health clinic
A self-manageable WordPress/Elementor site for a health clinic, with a custom booking-system integration.
WordPress website — cottage rental
A site showcasing Norfolk holiday lets and their history, designed to add a booking API when the agent offers one.
NextCloud — ARM warm-standby
Dropbox-style NextCloud file sync for clients on OVH dedicated ARM servers, in warm-standby pairs.
Microsoft 365 — value for money
Showing a business the full Microsoft 365 toolset — OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams — and finding savings along the way.