Your partner for web hosting infrastructure

Polymaths Engineering

We know everything about web hosting infrastructure. Call us when servers are on fire, when you're designing a hosting platform from scratch, or to advice with existing infrastructure.

It's hard enough to find polymaths — people who tackle problems and make architectural decisions by understanding every layer of web hosting infrastructure.

People who do that with a human approach are even more rare.

You found them.

01 — Services

One partner for everything web hosting infrastructure.

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Emergency response

Outline

When servers are down and you feel like you aged ten years in an hour, call us. We investigate, stabilise, and fix.

Rate

€160 /hour

Case

5 PM. Mid-business hours. A customer's critical Elasticsearch cluster goes dark. We drove to the Amsterdam datacenter and found every disk in the RAID set silently failed — one by one, over months, while the monitoring had quietly stopped reporting. Using advanced recovery techniques, every byte was back online within hours.

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Infrastructure consultancy

Outline

Advice from the start. Architecture, vendor selection, migration plans, capacity strategy, and cost reviews.

Rate

€110 /hour

Case

A mail hosting provider was bleeding packets — sporadic outages no one could pin down, customers escalating, vendors blaming each other. We traced the failures layer by layer, surfaced the structural flaws hiding in the network design, and engineered a partial renewal that fixed both symptom and cause.

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DevOps engineering

Outline

Build, automate, and operate — from hardware to control panels, from networks to servers, from pipelines to production.

Rate

€110 /hour

Case

A web agency needed a sovereign, highly available hosting platform for their entire client roster — and refused to bet their business on a US hyperscaler. We designed and built a clustered platform on owned infrastructure, sized for today's load and built to grow with them for the next decade.

02 — Built for

Three kinds of teams call us.

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SMEs with own infrastructure

Companies operating their own web hosting — from VPSes, to dedicated servers, to a couple of servers in a colocation.

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Shared hosting providers

Hosters operating shared platforms — cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk, CloudLinux, or custom with thousands of accounts, where both uptime and efficiency matter.

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Enterprises with complex platforms

When the complex business context matters as much as the high-end technical solutions.

03 — Across every layer

A polymath conducts the whole orchestra.

We know every layer - from cables in the ground to control panel that users use.

  1. 01 Networking & connectivity BGP · transit & peering · VLANs · DDoS · anycast · CDN
  2. 02 Bare metal & datacenters Hardware · IPMI · racks · capacity planning · power
  3. 03 Virtual & physical platforms Bare metal · AWS · GCP · Azure · Hetzner · OVH · DigitalOcean
  4. 04 Operating systems & server admin Debian · RedHat · FreeBSD · kernel tuning · systemd · hardening
  5. 05 Web servers & edge nginx · Apache · LiteSpeed · HAProxy · Caddy · Varnish
  6. 06 Hosting control panels CloudLinux · cPanel · DirectAdmin · Plesk · ISPConfig
  7. 07 Containers & orchestration Docker · Kubernetes · Compose
  8. 08 Data & storage PostgreSQL · MySQL / MariaDB · Redis · SingleStore · Elasticsearch
  9. 09 Observability Prometheus · Sensu · Nagios · Grafana · Loki · OpenTelemetry · ELK
  10. 10 Security & compliance ISO · IAM · secrets · audit logging · ISO & SOC posture

04 — Values

Our promises to you.

  1. 1. High‑end
  2. 2. Flexible
  3. 3. Reliable

05 — Approach

From business need to technical solution.

A polymath listens, understands, interprets, and translates business needs to substantiated technical advice and high-end solutions.

Engagements
Retainer, project, on-call
Response
24/7 for emergencies
Based in
The Netherlands
Working across
EU & UK time zones
Independent
Any vendor

06 — Lead Engineer

Leader of the pack.

William David Edwards

10+ years of doing everything web hosting, infrastructure, and DevOps — from network to server, from bare metal to Kubernetes, from cPanel to cloud. Built the Core hosting platform at Cyberfusion — one of the most advanced fully-automated hosting platforms in the EU.

Role
Lead DevOps Engineer
Experience
10+ years
Domain
Web hosting, infrastructure, DevOps
Based in
The Netherlands
William David Edwards

07 — Contact

Tell us what's running, planned, or broken.

Thirty minutes is usually enough to know whether we're a fit.

Email contact@polymaths.engineering Phone +31 (6) 14 72 11 38
Hours Business hours Mon–Fri · 24/7 for incidents