Provisioned a production web server on Google Cloud
Stood up a Debian VM, configured the firewall, installed and hardened Nginx, and deployed this site to it end to end.
- Google Cloud VMs
- Linux administration
- Nginx & Apache
Infrastructure & Cloud
Building things that stay up at 3am.
I'm izatfairuz — I design, provision, and maintain the servers and systems that sit quietly underneath the products people actually use. This site itself runs on a VM I set up and manage by hand.
Recent activity
changelogMigrated a small internal tool to a managed database
Moved a flat-file setup to a proper database backend, with backups and a rollback plan in place before cutover.
Wrote a runbook for on-call incident response
Documented the checks and escalation path a teammate needs to triage an outage without waiting on me.
What I work with
toolset
Compute
Reliability
- Firewall & access control
- Backups & monitoring
- SSL / HTTPS setup
Delivery
- Shell scripting
- Static & dynamic sites
- Documentation