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Website Maintenance & Support with Kubernetes
Website Maintenance & Support built on Kubernetes, chosen where it genuinely fits, and swapped where it does not.
- Category
- infra
- Vendor
- Open source
- Alternatives we also use
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Why Kubernetes for this
Updates go to staging first. Applying them straight to production is how a routine Tuesday becomes an outage, and staging costs almost nothing by comparison.
Kubernetes is strongest at portability and fine-grained control over scaling and scheduling. For website maintenance & support that matters because the failure modes of this kind of system tend to cluster exactly there.
The honest trade-off: an operational burden most teams below a certain size should not take on. We say that up front because a stack chosen for fashion rather than fit becomes someone's migration project two years later. Every engagement opens with a measurement: the cycle time, the cost per transaction, or the error rate we are being asked to move.
Six weeks to something running in production, not six quarters to a strategy document.
The honest assessment
- What it is
- Container orchestration for workloads that genuinely need it.
- Strongest at
- portability and fine-grained control over scaling and scheduling
- Trade-off
- an operational burden most teams below a certain size should not take on
- Category
- infra
We are not a reseller for Kubernetes and hold no commission on this choice. Where a different option fits your workload better, the recommendation will say so. That is the entire value of asking us.
What is included
- Core, plugin and dependency updates applied on staging first
- Automated backups with a restore tested quarterly, not assumed
- Uptime and performance monitoring with alerts that reach a person
- Security patching and vulnerability scanning
- A monthly content-update allowance so small changes do not need quotes
- A named contact rather than a ticket queue
Questions
What does maintenance actually cover?
Updates, backups and restore tests, monitoring, security patching, and a monthly allowance for small content changes. Anything larger is quoted separately and agreed before work starts.
What if the site goes down?
Monitoring alerts us, and the response time is in the agreement rather than left vague. Restores run from tested backups.
Do you maintain sites you did not build?
Yes, after an audit. We need to know what is in there before taking responsibility for it, and occasionally that audit changes the recommendation.
Alternatives for website maintenance & support
Same capability, different stack. Each page states its own trade-off.
Building with Kubernetes?
Bring us the workload and we will tell you whether this is the right stack for it.
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