Independent · Senior · Hands-on

Your servers are slow on purpose. We fix that.

Server Optimizers is a small team of senior consultants who tune the infrastructure your business actually depends on — databases, web servers, caching layers, and security stacks that should have been faster yesterday.

audit@serveroptimizers ~ live diagnostic
$ so-audit --target prod-web-01 --depth full › profiling php-fpm pool ............ workers exhausted (62%) › analyzing mysql slow log .......... 14 queries > 2s › checking nginx cache ratio ........ hit rate 41% (target 90%) › scanning kernel net stack ......... tcp backlog overflow › opcache + redis status ............ misconfigured ───────────────────────────────────────── estimated TTFB reduction: −71% $

We don't sell magic. We sell tuned defaults.

Most servers ship with conservative settings designed to never fail on a $5 VPS. We rebuild that stack around your actual workload, traffic shape, and budget.

01

Database optimization

MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Redis. Query analysis, index strategy, buffer pool tuning, replication review.

02

Web stack tuning

Nginx, Apache, LiteSpeed, PHP-FPM, OPcache. We rebuild your config around real traffic, not vendor defaults.

03

Security hardening

ModSecurity rule sets, WAF tuning, CSF/iptables, malware response, kernel hardening, audit logging.

04

Performance audits

Full-stack profiling: TTFB, query plans, cache hit ratios, network stack, disk I/O. You get a written report and a fix list.

05

Capacity planning

Right-size your fleet. Migration planning, vertical vs horizontal scaling, cost modeling against actual headroom.

06

Incident response

Production on fire? We've spent twenty years putting out infrastructure fires. Retainers and one-shot calls available.

Numbers, not vibes.

Every engagement ends with before/after metrics. Here are typical outcomes from recent client work.

68%
Avg TTFB reduction
12x
DB query speedup
40%
Cloud cost reduction
22+
Years in production

Engagement, in four moves.

No agency overhead, no junior engineers running scripts they don't understand. You talk to the person doing the work.

01 / DISCOVER

Read-only audit

We get SSH access, run a battery of diagnostics, and produce a written report. No changes yet.

02 / PRIORITIZE

Fix list, ranked by ROI

Every recommendation comes with effort, risk, and expected impact. You decide what we touch.

03 / IMPLEMENT

Staged rollout, with rollback

Backup first, change second, verify third. We keep you in the loop on every production-touching command.

04 / VERIFY

Measured, not assumed

Before/after benchmarks. If a change didn't move the needle, it gets reverted.

Tell us what's slow.

Send a short note about your stack and what's hurting. We'll reply within one business day with whether we're a fit and what an audit would look like.

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