VPS administration
Your host or ours. We speak the ticket language with the provider, handle common admin work, and keep the stack (web, database, mail, app) running.
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Linux servers, VPS environments, and WordPress — including when the site is on fire.
Remote administration of Linux servers in your office or in the cloud. VPS support whether you host with us or not. WordPress hosting from $240/year, and published incident-response packages when a site is compromised.
Linux server administration
Most websites and VPS instances run Linux. Most businesses do not want to live in SSH. Avery has administered Linux since around 2000 — not as a certification badge, as the boxes that stay up. We administer yours: setup, hardening, updates, and the call when an upgrade does not come back.
That includes the unglamorous work: certificate renewals, disk that filled up at 2 a.m., PHP that a plugin just broke, MySQL replication that was “fine” until it was not, and talking to the VPS host in a language they understand. United States–based. Not an overseas $5/hour inbox.
- Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS / Rocky / Alma, Red Hat
- Nginx and Apache, PHP, MySQL / MariaDB / PostgreSQL
- Mail (Postfix), VPN (OpenVPN), SSH, TLS
- Monitoring, backups, and a safety net for installs that go sideways
- United States–based. Not an overseas $5/hour inbox.
VPS and WordPress support
WordPress hosting
Linux hosting from $240 / year. Shell access on most plans. WordPress on the lower tiers; bring your own CMS or PHP/HTML on the mid and high plans. Nginx preferred, Apache when it fits.
Ask about hosting →WordPress incident response
Hacked site, gambling or casino titles in Google, links you did not add, unknown admins, malware flags. Published packages — cleanup, hardening, or both. Hosting can be ours or yours.
See IR packages →WordPress incident-response packages
Fixed packages, not an open timesheet. A more complex site can land higher in the range. Existing clients and nonprofits may receive a courtesy off these rates.
Phase A · Cleanup
From $2,500 typical $2,500–$4,500
Diagnosis, full backup, malware and spam-page removal, restore of hijacked URLs, written report, public-site check.
Phase B · Hardening
From $2,000
Admin password reset, host-side secrets, file-editor lock, login protection, low-risk plugin patches, optional monitoring.
Combined A + B
From $4,200
Cleanup and hardening in one engagement. Recommended after a real compromise.
Not in the starting rates (quoted separately): cloud-only keys, Google recrawl once you can open Search Console, and large plugin upgrades that change how the site behaves. Full detail on the WordPress IR page.
Who calls for Linux help
Owners who were handed a VPS invoice and a root password. Agencies whose client’s WordPress box is someone else’s problem until it is not. Out-of-town MSPs who need a Linux pair of hands without farming the book — partners. In-house admins who are Windows-first and do not want to pretend they live in systemd.
Hosting can stay yours. If you want the box and the admin in one shop, that is Trileaf Hosting — same operator, published as a DTS-related project. We will not move you for the sake of moving you.
If the Linux box is the front door of a larger business compromise (365, VPN, ransomware), that is incident response, not a package on this page.
Questions we get
Which distros?
Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS / Rocky / Alma, and Red Hat. Nginx preferred, Apache when it fits. PHP, MySQL / MariaDB / PostgreSQL, Postfix, OpenVPN, SSH, TLS.
Do we have to host with Trileaf?
No. VPS administration is your host or ours. Trileaf is the stack Avery has run for years when you want the box and the admin in one shop.
Can an MSP send Linux or WordPress IR to you?
Yes. You stay the provider of record. Published WordPress IR packages are on their own page.