Senior engineers in Bucharest · we run your Linux servers, dedicated servers, virtual machines and containers, and we consult on the harder questions
DreamServer has been running Linux infrastructure for our own customers since 2009. We extend that team to your organisation as a managed-services and consulting provider: from a one-off hardening project to a full 24/7 on-call rotation, on hardware you already own or in our Bucharest datacenter.
Mix and match: many customers start with a one-off audit, move into a monthly retainer for steady operations and call us for a project when something big lands on the roadmap.
Day-to-day care for your Linux fleet. Patches, hardening, configuration management, backup, monitoring, on-call.
End-to-end care for bare-metal servers, in our datacenter or yours: hardware, OS, services and monitoring.
Operations for VMs and containers. Proxmox VE, KVM, LXC, Docker and Kubernetes, on any provider.
Architecture review, capacity planning, security audits, migration plans, cost optimisation, vendor selection.
Pick the shape that fits the work. The first 30 minutes of a discovery call are free; the quote that follows is fixed and written.
Best for occasional one-off tasks and quick consultations.
EUR 55/h effective, used at any pace over 6 months.
EUR 47.50/h effective. Unused hours roll over one cycle.
Migrations, audits, full builds. One discovery call, one written SOW.
Prices exclude VAT. Out-of-hours work and 24/7 on-call carry a multiplier disclosed up front. We invoice in EUR; RON invoices on request at the BNR exchange rate of the day.
Schedule a free 30-minute call with one of our senior engineers. Tell us what you run, what hurts and where you want to go; we share initial advice and direction on the call itself, with no obligation.
A practical, non-exhaustive list of the technical work covered by every standard engagement. Anything missing is usually a quick add to the scope.
nftables, ufw), fail2banauditd, journald)Six concrete reasons our customers stay for years. The short version: we run our own production stack, so we know what good operations actually look like.
DreamServer is a Bucharest datacenter, an ISP, an Internet exchange (DSIX) and a RIPE NCC LIR. The team you hire runs production for us first. No advice we give you is theoretical.
No subcontracting, no rotating juniors. The engineer who onboards your account is the engineer answering your tickets six months later. If we add a person we tell you, in writing, before they touch anything.
Romanian SRL, EU data jurisdiction, GDPR-compliant by design. We sign DPAs as a matter of course. Customer data we touch on your behalf stays in the EU unless you direct us otherwise.
We work on your servers wherever they live: Hetzner, OVH, AWS, Azure, GCP, your rack, our datacenter. We will tell you when we think you should move and when you should stay.
Response targets are documented in your MSA. Monthly status reports show what we did, how many hours it took, what is queued and what failed. No mystery invoices.
Everything we deploy is documented in a runbook in your repo. If you decide to take it back in-house, the keys, the runbook and the contact list are already yours. We do not lock anyone in.
A predictable five-step engagement. The first two steps are free; you only commit on step three.
30 to 60 minutes on Jitsi or your choice of meeting tool. We map what you have, what hurts and what success looks like. No pressure, no surprises.
Within 2 working days you receive a written quote: scope, deliverables, time estimate, price and assumptions. Either model (hourly, retainer, project) or a hybrid.
We sign an MSA, NDA, and DPA where relevant. You grant access through dedicated service keys (read-only first when feasible) and we set up a shared issue tracker.
For ongoing engagements we spend 4 to 8 hours documenting what is in place, listing risks and quick wins. The audit is a deliverable even if you stop here.
From there it is normal day-to-day operations: tickets, scheduled work, monthly review. Every change is in version control; everything we do is reviewable.
If yours is not here, ask us on the contact page.
We take care of the day-to-day life of your Linux servers: installing the OS, applying security patches, hardening SSH and the firewall, managing the web stack (nginx, Apache), databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB), email, backups, monitoring with Prometheus or Zabbix, and on-call response when something breaks. We work either on servers in our own datacenter or on hardware you already own elsewhere.
No. We administer servers wherever they live: bare metal in your own rack, VPS at any cloud provider (Hetzner, OVH, AWS, Azure, GCP, Linode, DigitalOcean, etc.), or in our Bucharest datacenter. The tooling and processes are the same. Hosting with us simply removes one bill and one vendor from the chain, and gives you natural integration with our other managed services like Proxmox Backup Server, Nextcloud Hub and .ro domain registration.
All the mainstream production-grade Linux distributions: Debian, Ubuntu LTS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, openSUSE / SLES, plus FreeBSD on request. We also support Proxmox VE (Debian-based) for virtualization hosts and standalone containers (Docker, Podman, LXC).
Three standard models: hourly at EUR 60/hour, prepaid blocks (10 hours for EUR 550) used over 6 months and monthly retainers (20 hours for EUR 950/month) with unused hours rolling over one cycle. Multi-server or 24/7 on-call setups are quoted per scope. Project-based engagements (a migration, a security audit, a stack rebuild) are quoted as a single fixed price after a discovery call.
Yes, as an add-on to the monthly retainer. We integrate with your alerting (Prometheus Alertmanager, Grafana OnCall, Opsgenie, PagerDuty) and an engineer responds within 15 minutes for critical incidents and 1 hour for non-critical ones. Response SLA is set in writing; please request the standard MSA when you order.
We open with a 30 to 60 minute discovery call: what you have, what hurts, what you want to achieve. Within 2 working days we send a written quote (scope, time estimate, deliverables, price). On acceptance we sign an MSA + NDA, you grant access (typically a service SSH key + read-only credentials at first), and we start. Most engagements finish onboarding in under a week.
Yes. NDA is standard practice and we sign one before any access is granted. For workloads that touch personal data we sign a GDPR-aligned DPA. We are an EU-based company; data we touch on your behalf stays in the EU unless you explicitly direct us otherwise.
Yes. Common projects: cloud-to-bare-metal repatriation (cost cuts), CentOS to AlmaLinux/Rocky migrations, Debian/Ubuntu major-version upgrades, MySQL to PostgreSQL, monolith to containers, on-prem to Proxmox VE. Every migration is run as a project with a written runbook, a maintenance window, a rollback plan and a written acceptance test.
We run pragmatic security audits aligned with CIS Benchmarks and OpenSCAP profiles. The deliverable is a prioritised report (critical / high / medium / low) plus a remediation plan with effort estimates. For GDPR, ISO 27001 prep or PCI-DSS scoping we work alongside your DPO/auditor on the technical side and deliver the artefacts (logs, configs, hardening proofs).
DreamServer engineers, on payroll. We do not subcontract. The same engineer handles your account through onboarding and ongoing work, with a backup engineer briefed for vacations and on-call. We also run our own datacenter, our own LIR (RIPE NCC member) and our own ISP, so the team you talk to is the team that runs production infrastructure every day. Read more about us.
Yes. Infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi or Ansible. CI/CD on GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Drone, Woodpecker, Jenkins. Container registries, Helm charts, Kubernetes (k3s, k8s, OpenShift). We can either build the pipeline from scratch or take over an existing one and clean it up.
Yes, this is the most common starting point. We do an onboarding audit on the existing setup (typically 4 to 8 hours), document what we found, list the risks and the quick wins, and then either pick up day-to-day operations or run a remediation project first. The audit alone is a useful deliverable even if you decide not to engage further.
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