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James Lawrie

James Lawrie

DevOps and Infrastructure Consultant (Linux, MySQL, AWS) at silvermou.se

Krakow, Poland

English speaking

I’m James Lawrie, a Linux Consultant with almost a decade of experience managing and supporting Linux servers. I’ve previously worked for the well-known UK hosting companies UKFast...Read moreI’m James Lawrie, a Linux Consultant with almost a decade of experience managing and supporting Linux servers. I’ve previously worked for the well-known UK hosting companies UKFast and Bytemark and now I’m operating on a freelance basis. See my reviews and website at https://silvermouse.net/ or https://www.linkedin.com/in/jameslawrie/

I’m always interested in taking on new clients, whether it be for a one-off project or regular work. If you have something which you feel I may be interested in, feel free to contact me.

Linux Server Management and Maintenance

Many of my clients have some Linux knowledge but prefer to focus on the part of their business that they love, and have me on hand for resolving everyday problems such as service problems, hack attempts, advice on upgrading and fixing email issues.

I have extensive experience in the following areas:

Web technologies such as Apache, Nginx, Varnish and HAProxy.
Mail services including Postfix, Exim, and Dovecot and Courier, and spam filtering via SpamAssassin.
Backup strategies Intelligent policies for incremental and offsite backups that are easy to restore from.
Configuration management with Ansible, Puppet, and CFEngine.
Virtualisation with KVM, libvirt, and Vagrant.
Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
Linux Server Security, including PCI DSS

I’m regularly asked to clean up hacked servers and discover the intrusion source.

The majority of attacks tend to be through website exploits, and having cleaned up tens of machines over the years I know most of the tricks used by hackers. I can clean up the attack, perform a security audit of the server, and advise on ways to stop it happening again.

I’m also experienced remedying any problems found in a PCI/DSS scan, and can also advise when a scan is producing false positives.

Website and Server Performance Tuning

Google is now factoring speed into search result rankings, and so the need for a quick site has never been greater.

I specialise in back-end performance and have extensive experience with webserver load balancing, caching with Varnish and HAProxy, and MySQL scaling. Over the years I’ve helped many large and medium sized companies to solve their scaling issues, allowing them to grow beyond a single server setup to a setup providing reliability, redundancy, and increased performance.

MySQL Support and Consultancy

One of my biggest interests is MySQL performance and scalability. Often MySQL is the bottleneck in web applications and I specialise in optimizing MySQL’s configuration. I can advise on and build database setups over multiple servers if necessary.

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database administrationamazon web serviceslinuxmysqlnginxubuntuansibleapache http serverdebian operating systemdomain name system (dns) +5
linux system administrationSecure Sockets Layer (SSL)virtual private server (vps)web hostingwordpress (cms)

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I need a Wordpress / Apache expert to fix an SSL issue promptly
  • Goggle Software Ltdby Goggle Software Ltd
  • Posted: 4 Jan 2021
  • 1
  • 04 Jan 2021 Goggle Software Ltd
    Goggle Software Ltd
    Leeds, GB

    James picked up the task and did it flawlessly and quickly. I was actually amazed. What a guy.

Apply SSL certificate to Magento Website on 1 and 1 server
  • Benby Ben S.
  • Posted: 30 Jul 2018
  • 7
  • 30 Jul 2018 Ben S.
    Ben S.
    Forest Row, GB

    Very quick and efficient. Managed to fix all the issue we needed.

Install SSL certificate. NO CPANEL. SSH
  • Markby Mark S.
  • Posted: 24 Jul 2018
  • 0
  • 05 Aug 2018 Mark S.
    Mark S.
    London, GB

    Awesome work

  • 25 Jul 2018 Mark S.
    Mark S.
    London, GB

    excellent work, super fast and great service.

Make your website or database respond to customers faster
Make your website or database respond to customers faster
$80
  • Posted: 24 Mar 2018
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  • 04 Apr 2018 N L.
    N L.
    Meppen, DE

    Professional, fast, efficient and work consensus, defiantly use again. Many thanks.

Install ssl certificate on bitnami discourse server through ssh
  • Adamby Adam P.
  • Posted: 28 Jan 2018
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  • 29 Jan 2018 Adam P.
    Adam P.
    Los Angeles, CA, US

    Very nice and smart developer ! Sharp and quick. I recommend !

PCI Compliance Help
  • Simonby Simon H.
  • Posted: 4 Dec 2017
  • 0
  • 06 Dec 2017 Simon H.
    Simon H.
    Lee-on-the-Solent, GB

    Incredible. Adaptable, amazing communication & excellent work!

Site Map, DNS upgrades, optimisations for speed and SSL
  • Natalieby Natalie T.
  • Posted: 6 Nov 2017
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  • 15 Nov 2017 Natalie T.
    Natalie T.
    Whitstable, GB

    James was super helpful, super knowledgable and got us sorted very quickly. He was also very reasonable about the fee he charged. Would defo use again. Go James! :)

I need python code fixed
  • Robinby Robin M.
  • Posted: 8 Nov 2017
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  • 08 Nov 2017 Robin M.
    Robin M.
    Johannesburg, ZA

    James was excellent, quickly jumped in and provided the help that I needed. I really recommend him.

Install SSL and migrate website to https
  • Jasonby Jason W.
  • Posted: 26 Oct 2017
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  • 02 Nov 2017 Jason W.
    Jason W.
    Thatcham, GB

    Great to work with - really helpful, goes above and beyond and knows his stuff. Highly Recommended.

Wordpress site on AWS with Ansible and Terraform
  • Peterby Peter U.
  • Posted: 9 Nov 2020
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