Fractional CTO & Managed Cloud
Technical leadership and hands-on server management for small businesses that run their own website, app, or software, without hiring a full-time CTO.
Monthly retainer. Accounts in your name. No lock-in.
Sound familiar?
Your servers run, but nobody on your side knows how, what they cost, or what happens if something breaks.
Changes go live without review. You can't tell whether the work is right until a customer finds the bug.
Every month it's a number you can't explain, for services you didn't know you had.
You need senior technical judgment a few hours a week, not a $200K hire.
What's included
Firewall rules that stop bots and password-guessing, patched servers, locked-down access with MFA, rotated credentials, and alerts when something looks wrong.
Updates, monitoring, and fixing what breaks. The server-level work your web developer can't or shouldn't touch.
Automatic backups, checked every week, and restores we've actually practiced, so a bad day stays a bad hour.
I find what's slowing pages down, from caching to oversized servers, and fix it with numbers before and after.
I review your developers' changes before they go live and set the technical priorities, so the work matches what the business needs.
I find idle servers, forgotten storage, and oversized plans, cut what you don't need, and explain the bill in plain words.
Self-hosted, on your terms
Everything runs on accounts in your name. Your setup is documented and written as code, so it can be rebuilt, audited, or handed to someone else. If we ever part ways, you keep everything and lose nothing.
You own
I run
You always get
No surprises
Every week you get a scorecard of how your systems ran, plus a short, plain-English note: what got done, hours used so far, and what's next. If a month looks like it will run over, you hear about it before it happens.
Week of Oct 5 · no red items
Plus a short note: what got done, hours used, what's next.
Who I do this for
ONGOING RETAINER
An education company serving school districts, on its own AWS setup built by an agency that had moved on.
MY OWN STUDIO
My yoga studio in Atlanta. I moved its website onto the studio's own AWS setup.
SOFTWARE I BUILT
My open-source studio management software. The live demo runs entirely on AWS.
For the technical reader
How it works
01
We talk through what you run, who touches it, and what keeps you up at night. Free, 30 minutes.
02
I map every account, server, and bill, fix access and backups, and write it all down. You see exactly what you have.
03
A monthly block of hours for upkeep, reviews, and improvements, with a Monday update every week.
Pricing
Monthly retainer
A set number of hours each month, sized to what you run. Hours beyond the plan are billed at the same rate, and you're told before a month runs over.
Usually yes. Developers build. Someone still has to review the work, run the servers, and make the calls.
AWS is home base. If you're elsewhere, we'll talk about whether to stay or move.
No. Your accounts, your code, your documentation. Cancel with notice and you keep everything.
Book a call
A website on its own server, an app, a setup an agency left behind? Give me the short version and I'll reply within one business day to set up a call.