Jobs: Alexander Khaustov, CTO centos-admin.ru
Workplaces / / December 27, 2019
We all love it when your favorite sites quickly open and run loose 24/7. And on whose shoulders kept all these digital fortress with the information? Hosters only provide a platform for resource allocation and configuration of servers are involved - administrators. We interviewed Alexander Khaustova, Technical Director centos-admin.ru. These guys are doing just that to help people whose business is focused on the Internet, in the selection, configuration and optimization of Internet resources for maximum efficiency. Enjoy reading.
What do you do in your work?
We help owners of online businesses in the active development of their projects. The more popular the resource, the higher the load on it. Consequently, this also increases the requirements for technical support trouble-free and stable operation of the resource. We are committed to select the best software, optimize settings, find and debug the bottlenecks in the code.
When your Internet project works as expected (ie, fast and stable), it increases attendance, and therefore contributes to the project and profits. This is the essence of our work - we provide a reliable, fast and smooth operation of services of our clients.
What work?
We work with different platforms, with those that have the client. We are in this respect are not choosy. Not always a business owner is knowledgeable in technical terms, and if the client has not yet decided on the choice of server, we give recommendations, which solution is optimal.
Most often we recommend German hoster Hetzner. In addition, we have extensive experience with Dutch Leaseweb, Russian and Selectel Logol, as well as the popular Amazon cloud platform.
In general, we do not particularly important where the client server is located. The main thing is to support host to respond quickly to requests in the case of hardware failures and provide stable service.
What software use?
It all depends on the specific project, the languages and the means by which it is implemented.
We work with a very wide range of software development languages and: apache, nginx, php-fpm, php, ruby, mysql, postgresql, redis, java and many others. Besides helping to automate deploymenta various means capistrano or just svn / git systems. This greatly simplifies life for us, and project developers. Automation - this is what we always strive for.
From operating systems prefer CentOS virtualization OpenVZ, but happily'll work with any * nix such a system, if necessary.
Generally, if you enumerate all with what we had to work, you get a reference. Right now we have serviced more than 500 physical servers, and they are all in varying degrees different. In practice, this translates into flexibility: a lot ekspiriensa accumulates over time, have experience work with all imaginable systems, and each of them you already know, you know, what and how do. In this regard, the experience is priceless.
Is there a place in your paper work?
Actually, no. We administrators, not clerks, but business processes require to sign the necessary documents before the service: the confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements.
Is there a dream configuration?
Definitely there! But at the same time it is not something discrete. Software is constantly being updated and improved, and in the following configurations and improved him.
We follow the news in the world of IT, attend professional conferences, follow the release of new versions of software and libraries. It is not so much the need to work as a "natural interest". Techies will understand us.
The same with the configurations and settings. Our architecture extensively tested over the years of practice working with heavy duty systems and we continue to optimize it. No limit to perfection, and sharpen the skills and the configuration can be infinite, but we try very hard to get close to this cherished ideal.
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