Linux Consultancy & System Administration

Welcome to linuxbox.co.uk, homepage of Peter Smith, a UK-based Linux consultant, programmer, system admin, web developer, and author

For the past 10 years I have been working on a freelance basis for clients in both the UK and abroad, dividing my time between web development (PHP/MySQL) and Linux system administration.

I'm always interested in taking on new clients, whether it be for a one-off project or regular work. If you have a project which you feel I may be interested in, feel free to contact me.

One thing I love about my work is the variety; nevertheless there are a handful of tasks which I am regularly asked to perform, and which consequently I have a lot of experience with. Theses include:

Web development (PHP, MySQL, CSS, AJAX, Javascript, XML etc)
Linux server performance tuning
Modifications/enhancements to third party web applications (eg vBulletin, OSCommerce, Joomla)
Email-related issues: spam/virus filtering, routing, virtual mailboxes, support for SASL etc.
Backup strategies.
Server migration
Tightening security, and recovering from security breaches.
Load-balancing and clustering

Some of the less common (but more interesting) areas I've worked on in the past include: automated burning of backups to DVD-R, modifications to SquirrelMail plugins, repairing broken Plesk upgrades, tracking down the cause of random crashes, recovering deleted data from ext2 partitions, and Spam filtering in Qmail.

Consultancy is offered at a flat rate of $60/hour (or 40 GBP, whichever currency you prefer). Please contact me for further details. You may also like to read more about my background, and the areas that I work in.

Services

Code

vBulletin

Data

Fun Stuff

pete@linuxbox.co.uk