Expert Application Server Management & Optimization
As a Senior Application Server Administrator with 10 years of extensive experience, I provide specialized management, optimization, and troubleshooting for your critical application servers. My meticulous approach ensures high availability, peak performance, and robust security for your core business applications.
Overview:
Application servers are the engines that power your business-critical software. My service is dedicated to ensuring these engines run flawlessly, providing the stability and speed your applications demand. I specialize in various application server technologies, handling everything from initial deployment and configuration to performance tuning, security hardening, and complex troubleshooting to guarantee optimal application delivery.
What You'll Gain:
By optimizing your application servers with my expertise, you will achieve:
- Superior Application Performance: Faster load times and more responsive user experiences.
- High Availability & Stability: Minimized application downtime and increased reliability.
- Reduced Operational Issues: Proactive identification and resolution of performance bottlenecks and errors.
- Enhanced Security: Fortified application servers against common vulnerabilities.
- Efficient Resource Utilization: Maximizing the efficiency of your server infrastructure.
My Skills & Expertise:
- Application Servers: Deep expertise in:
- Java-based: Apache Tomcat, JBoss/WildFly, WebLogic (familiarity), Jetty.
- .NET-based: Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Services).
- Node.js: Nginx reverse proxy, PM2 process manager, Node.js environment optimization.
- Other: Apache HTTP Server, Nginx (as web server/reverse proxy).
- Deployment & Configuration: Proficient in deploying WAR/EAR/JAR files, configuring virtual hosts, application pools, and server settings.
- Performance Tuning: Expertise in optimizing JVM settings, connection pools, thread pools, caching, and OS-level parameters for application servers.
- Security Hardening: Implementing best practices for application server security (e.g., secure configuration, patch management, access control).
- Troubleshooting: Advanced diagnostic skills for identifying and resolving application performance issues, memory leaks, and service failures.
- Monitoring: Setting up and interpreting application server metrics, logs, and alerts.
- Load Balancing & Clustering: Experience with integrating application servers into load-balanced and clustered environments.
- Scripting & Automation: Bash, PowerShell, Python for automating deployment, configuration, and maintenance tasks.
Tools & Technologies I Utilize:
- Java Application Servers: Apache Tomcat, JBoss/WildFly.
- .NET Application Servers: Microsoft IIS.
- Web Servers/Proxies: Apache HTTP Server, Nginx.
- Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics (conceptual), Dynatrace (conceptual), ELK Stack (for logs), JConsole/JVisualVM (for JVM monitoring), Windows Performance Monitor.
- Deployment Tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD (familiarity), custom deployment scripts.
- Load Balancers: Nginx, F5 (conceptual), AWS ELB/ALB, Azure Application Gateway.
- Security: OWASP ZAP (for basic web app scanning), custom security checklists.
- Diagnostic Tools: Thread dumps, heap dumps, network sniffers.
My Work Process:
1- Discovery & Application Analysis: Understand your application stack, server architecture, performance requirements, and any existing issues.
2- Strategy & Optimization Planning: Develop a tailored plan for application server setup, configuration, performance tuning, and security hardening.
3- Deployment & Configuration: Deploy applications, configure server roles (e.g., IIS roles, Tomcat instances), and integrate with databases/other services.
4- Performance Tuning & Testing: Apply performance optimizations, conduct load testing (if required, with client's tools), and fine-tune configurations based on results.
5- Monitoring & Proactive Maintenance: Implement comprehensive monitoring for application server health, performance, and application-specific metrics. Perform routine maintenance.
6- Troubleshooting & Support: Provide responsive support for any application server-related issues, diagnosing and resolving problems efficiently to ensure application availability.
7- Documentation & Knowledge Transfer: Provide detailed documentation of server configurations, optimization strategies, and troubleshooting guides.
Why Choose Me?
With 10 years focused on application server administration, I bring senior-level expertise to ensure your critical applications run at peak performance. My meticulous approach to configuration, optimization, and troubleshooting guarantees stability, scalability, and security. I am committed to making your application delivery seamless, reliable, and highly efficient.
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- Delivery time
- Application Server Installation
- Single Application Deployment
- Basic Configuration Review
- Health Check & Connectivity Test
- Basic Log Review
- Startup/Shutdown Scripting
- Initial Status Report
- Performance Tuning
- Security Hardening
- Logging & Monitoring Setup
- Reverse Proxy Configuration (Nginx/Apache HTTPD)
- Backup Strategy Advice
- Problem Diagnosis (up to 4 hours/month)
- Detailed Configuration & Optimization Report
- High Availability & Clustering Setup
- Advanced Performance Tuning & Scalability
- Advanced Security Auditing
- CI/CD Integration Support
- Load Balancer Configuration
- Advanced Monitoring & Alerting
- Disaster Recovery Planning Assistance
- Troubleshooting & Performance Analysis (up to 8 hours/month)
- Strategic Capacity Planning
- Charges
Basic
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$1,200.00
Standard
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$3,000.00
Premium
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$5,200.00