I have been a desktop Linux user for about fifteen years, and a professional LAMP (Linux - Apache - MySQL - PHP) admin for over eight years. My skills and experience include:
- Linux installation and configutation
- Security enhancements
- Server monitoring
- Load testing
- Apache and MySQL performance tuning
- Mail server configuration and troubleshooting
- Authentication: SSH, LDAP
- Virtualization: Xen, OpenVZ
- Control panels: Virtuozzo, Cpanel, Webmin
I am experienced with many sysadmin tools, and favour the following open-source projects (among many more , of course):
- Suhosin (for greatly enhanced PHP security)
- OSSEC (for intrusion detection, alerting, and response)
- Munin (for performance monitoring)
- Nagios (uptime and system status alerts)
- Heartbeat (high-availability failover)
- Apt-Dater (easily deploy apt-get updates to large numbers of Debian servers)
Contact me if you need a sysadmin or web site administrator in Winnipeg, or Canada, or really anywhere in the world where there's SSH access.