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Managed Services

Your Linux Servers,
Fully Covered.

We take ownership of your Linux infrastructure, monitoring, patching, securing, and optimizing it, so you can stop worrying and focus on running your business.

15+Years
2000+Servers
24/7Support
Trusted by companies across North America
Yorkville McAfee BacklotCars Hanscom FCU Dorian MindFuel Kliksafe

24/7 Proactive Monitoring

With our 24/7 NOC add-on, we watch your servers around the clock, CPU, memory, disk, services, databases, cronjobs, and respond before you even notice an issue.

Security & Patching

Scheduled patching keeps your OS and key third-party software current. For teams with compliance needs, our High-Security tier adds vulnerability scanning, firewall audits, and access reviews to keep your attack surface small.

Backups & Disaster Recovery

File-level backups and database dumps with defined retention, plus recovery procedures. When the worst happens, we have a plan and the experience to execute it fast.

Senior Linux Engineers

No junior staff learning on your dime. Every engineer on your account has deep Linux experience, legacy stacks, modern cloud-native, and everything in between.

Reporting & Transparency

Monthly reports on system health, patch status, incidents, and recommendations. You'll always know what's happening with your infrastructure, no black box.

IT Roadmap Consulting

Regular strategic meetings with senior engineers. We help you plan upgrades, evaluate new technology, and make decisions that keep your infrastructure ahead of your business needs.


Service Tiers

Pick the Level of Coverage
That Fits Your Team

All plans include North American engineers, 24/7 monitoring, and patching. Scale up as your needs grow.

How Proactive Management works

TLC Basic

The must-have essentials for proactive server management

  • Basic server & network monitoring
  • Scheduled OS patching
  • File-level backups
  • Database backups (SQL dump)
  • North American Linux engineers
  • 50% off non-production servers
  • Quarterly business reviews
  • Basic monthly reporting
Get Started with Basic

TLC High Security

For companies with elevated compliance and cybersecurity requirements

  • Everything in TLC Standard
  • Real-time security compliance monitoring
  • Regular penetration testing
  • Firewall audits
  • Access & authorization auditing
  • Additional security reporting
Get Started with High Security
Add-on offering

24×7 NOC add-on

Round-the-clock access to our NOC-qualified Linux engineers with a 1-hour response SLA. Built for teams that want phone-backed coverage on top of standard managed services. Read about 24×7 NOC Access

Optional
What you get
  • 24/7 monitoring coverage After-hours NOC attention on your signals, not idle dashboards.
  • Phone reach to on-call engineers A direct line to qualified Linux engineers when minutes matter.
  • 1-hour response SLA A contracted first-response window for qualifying incidents under this add-on.
TLC descriptions
Standard CraftyStack, Full configuration

Teleport

  • Zero trust secure access to infrastructure
  • Certificate-based authentication
  • Session recording and RBAC-aligned access

Crafty SaltStack

  • Automated configuration management
  • Consistent, auditable state across servers
  • Drift detection and remediation workflows

Prometheus + Custom Exporters

  • OS and service-level metrics
  • Database and application performance signals
  • Tailored exporters for your stack

Grafana

  • Unified dashboards for teams
  • Correlated metrics and logs in one place
  • Alerting integrated with your runbooks

AlertManager

  • Tuned alert thresholds and routing
  • Intelligent deduplication and grouping
  • On-call friendly notification policies

Loki

  • Centralized log aggregation
  • Tightly integrated with Grafana
  • Cost-aware retention and querying
High-Security Stack, TLC High Security tier only

Crafty Wazuh (SIEM) High Security only

  • Real-time security event monitoring
  • Profile-based compliance visibility
  • Integrated response playbooks with your team

Sophos MDR Complete High Security only

  • Automated real-time threat detection
  • Human-led investigation and neutralization
  • 24/7 coverage aligned to critical workloads

Sophos Cloud Optix High Security only

  • Continuous cloud security posture
  • Misconfiguration and risk prioritization
  • Compliance visibility across accounts

The Real Impact

What Managed Services
Actually Means for You

01

Peace of Mind

  • One accountable partner owns the health of your systems, no more finger-pointing
  • Problems get caught and handled before they reach your customers or your team
  • No more late-night calls landing on you or your key people
  • Your team spends its time on the business, not on keeping servers alive
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Plan for the Future

  • Direct access to senior experts who help you make smart technology decisions
  • Regular roadmap conversations tied to where your business is headed
  • Fewer surprises: we flag risks and aging systems before they get expensive
  • Infrastructure that scales as you grow, instead of holding you back
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03

Better Security & Performance

  • Your systems stay current and protected, reducing your exposure to threats
  • Support for the security and compliance expectations your customers and auditors have
  • Performance issues spotted and resolved before they slow your business down
  • Clear, plain-language reporting so you always know where you stand
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04

Maximum Uptime

  • Your services stay available, so revenue and reputation aren't on the line
  • Updates and maintenance handled with little to no disruption for your users
  • Built-in resilience so a single failure doesn't take your business offline
  • Continuity you can count on, day and night, without you having to manage it
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The Crafty Penguins Way

How We Become Part of
Your Team

We don't just hand over a monitoring dashboard and disappear. Here's how we build a lasting partnership.

Step 01

Discovery Call

We learn your environment, pain points, and goals. No scripts, no sales pressure, just an honest conversation about what you need.

Step 02

Onboarding

A structured, practical onboarding process. We document your systems, set up monitoring, configure backups, and establish your communication cadence.

Step 03

Active Management

24/7 monitoring begins. Regular meetings, monthly reports, and proactive engineering work keep your infrastructure healthy and improving.

Step 04

Long-Term Partnership

We become an extension of your team. Strategic input, roadmap planning, and continuous improvement, not just keeping the lights on.

Client Success

What Our Clients Say


Herman van Rhijn
Kliksafe
Having Crafty Penguins manage our systems saves us time so that we can focus on our core business. At the moment, we serve 25,000+ customers with only two of our own staff members. The team has very in-depth knowledge, is capable of investigating issues a lot deeper than an average IT provider and is always there for us when we need them.
Herman van Rhijn
Technical Director, Kliksafe B.V., Netherlands
Get Started

To See How Crafty Penguins Can Help,
Please Reach Out Below

Whether you are stabilizing a MariaDB cluster, planning an upgrade, or tightening backups and failover, our engineers can meet you where you are, practical guidance, hands-on implementation, and long-term support when you need it.

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