Engineering Services

[Overview of areas of engineering expertise]

ISP Ltd. might be just the right combination of employee, consultant, and managed host that would profit your business. We can provide a capable server network with redundant data protection, hands-on system administration that anticipates and fixes problems before they happen, and a terrific knowledge base without requiring any of your office space.

• Software engineering, architecture planning and changes
  • Design and development of LAMP applications
  • Development of command-line applications using shell, Perl, PHP, and C
  • Linux automation design and development with BASH, PHP, Perl, and C
  • Database moves and migrations
• Linux server design
  • Planning and installation of Linux servers
  • Planning and implementation of configuration management system
  • Planning and implementation of infrastrucure monitoring
  • Development and implementation of server automation in many areas, including automated deployments in large enterprise
  • Software patch/update planning and implementation for large enterprise production environments
  • Software management, internal repositories
  • Linux-Active Directory integration, Kerberos authentication

A wide range of expertise

• Extensive and current experience with all major Linux distributions: Gentoo, Arch, Debian, and Red Hat, including most variants (Ubuntu, Oracle, CentOS, etc.).
• Server architecture design
• Linux server design, implementation, automation, etc.
• Server firewall design and maintenance.
• Expert help with Apache, Sendmail, Squid proxy, BIND DNS, DHCP, and more.
• Deep Linux knowledge, including custom kernel builds.
• Software engineering: Linux-Apache-PHP-MySQL (LAMP), shell, Perl.
• Database design and implementation. MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL.
• Documentation writing and editing.
• IT project planning and management.
• Network monitoring with SevOne and Zabbix.
• Server and network security audits and improvements.
• Gentoo Linux server management. One of the few companies in the world (in fact, the only one as far as we know) to offer managed Gentoo Linux servers for web, e-mail, and database with state-of-the-art security, performance, and stability. Gentoo offers superior security, speed, and flexibility that no other Linux distribution can match because packages are built from source. This requires more time to manage than other Linux systems, which is why most companies will not support it, but the outstanding benefits are well worth the extra effort.