50% higher security for SEO agency

The client faced low performance, poor infrastructure manageability and security. All of it hindered the coordinated work of the team and negatively affected the customer experience.

Client's main and helping servers were previously hosted by Hivelocity.net. To ensure higher efficiency, fault-tolerance, and better manageability, we migrated the servers to an instance on AWS with the following software: Nginx+Apache, PostgreSQL, MySQL, PHP. We set up a DB backup for the old server and restored it on the new one, copied and moved files from WordPress, and reconfigured SSL certificates for the domain on the new server.

To enforce data backup management we created and configured a backup system for all AWS servers and adopted AWS Lambda for deleted backup files. By automating the backup system, we managed to optimize expenses on backup file storage. Thus, the High Voltage team can always rely on its system to be able to roll back to the previous version and avoid data loss.

As a security and fails preventive measure we add all our clients’ servers to our monitoring system based on Zabbix. Apart from this, the HVSEO team runs its own monitoring. This helps us proactively react to the system threats and enhance security.

As too many IPs with different names constantly try to connect the High Voltage system, we set up Fail2Ban to scan log files and ban malicious IPs (IPs with too many password failures or seeking exploits).