Pradeep Y.
Jaipur, India
Linux System Admin : Web Hosting | LAMP | AWS | GCP | cPanel | Plesk
$15.00/hr
I'm a linux sysadmin and have worked in a web hosting company for more than eight years and now doing a full-time sysadmin consulting. I handle servers from co-locations/data centers to different vps and cloud hosting providers such as Rackspace, Amazon, Linode, DigitalOcean, and Softlayer. I managed mostly lamp-stack servers on CentOS/RHEL and Debian/Ubuntu and several cPanel/WHM servers for shared hosting clients.
I have designed and deployed mid to large scale highly scalable, fault tolerant, automated and secure IT infrastructures using cutting edge complex technologies such as cloud computing, aws/ec2, NoSQL databases, hadoop, load balancers, chef/puppet configuration management systems, varnish cache, nginx/apache web servers, solr search and indexing, virtualization, LAMP and python frameworks, RoR etc.
Operating Systems:
- Servers: RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE, solaris
Cloud and Hosting Providers:
- Manage instances deployed in Rackspace, Amazon, and Linode
- Manage dedicated servers in datacenter co-locations and Softlayer
Virtualization and Cloud technologies:
- Xen: setup, configure, and manage virtual machines running Debian and CentOS
-openvz : setup, configure, manage and migrate virtual machines running on CentOS
- OpenStack and Eucalyptus: setup, configure, and manage private cloud deployments
Hosting Control Panels:
- Manage multiple cPanel servers for shared hosting clients and services
- Previous experiences include Plesk, zpanel, directadmin, and Webmin control panels
DNS:
-- Manage DNS cluster on Cpanel DNSOnly versions. Manage zones hosted and integrated with Cpanel servers.
- Manage Bind DNS service on dedicated and Cpanel servers (WHM and DNSOnly
versions). Manage zones hosted at Softlayer and integrated with Cpanel servers
- Managed DNS from different hosting providers (Godaddy, NetworkSolutions, SRSPlus)
as well as migrating entire DNS/NameServers between different providers.
Backups:
- Cpanel Backups, and different rsync scripts (rsnapshot, rsback, rdiff), remote ftp backup.
- Administer backups from cloud providers such as AmazonS3 and Rackspace CloudBackup
Version Control Systems:
- Git: setup and manage dedicated git hosting server running Gitolite and Gitlab
- Github: manage organizations and private repositories. Setup deploy keys and webhooks
Alerts and Monitoring:
- Configure Nagios/opesview and cacti for servers and services monitoring
- Server graphing with NewRelic and Pingdom services. Previous work experience
includes Cacti, Graphite, MRTG, and PRTG.
Drupal CMS Administration:
- Managed Drupal 5,6, and 7 sites on LAMP-stack from different hosting providers
- Drupal server and site performance evaluation, tuning, and optimizations
- Setup and configure Drupal integration with CiviCRM, ApacheSolr/Tomcat,
Memcached, APC, and Varnish
- Applies Drupal standard and security updates on different site environments
Server Security:
- Experienced with setting up PCI Compliant servers. Scanning tools include dedicated
Nessus server and third-party scanner like Trustwave and ControlScan
- Setup and manage firewall rules with iptables, ufw, configserver firewall (csf),
Rackspace RackConnect, AWS SecurityGroups, dedicated firewall devices.
- Rkhunter, Chkrootkits, SSHD, TCP Wrapper, fail2ban.
Work history
HTTPS certificate and My Sql 5.7 speed issue
May 30, 2019
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Sep 20, 2020
"“I appreciate your input. When have an issue, it’s helpful for us.That’s a positive, productive move.
I'm excited to see next time.""
Private earnings
Sysadmin
Jul 14, 2020
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Sep 18, 2020
"Pradeep is very capable and professional. A pleasure to deal with."
Private earnings
Server Admin
Nov 8, 2018
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Sep 13, 2020
"Great work
very efficient
will definitely use again"
Private earnings
Install SSL Cert on Digital Ocean
Mar 25, 2020
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Mar 25, 2020
"Pradeep showed us exactly why he has 100% success rate. Very quick and extremely knowledgable. Thank you Pradeep! Will definitely use you again!"
Private earnings
Update / Install SSL Cert
Feb 5, 2020
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Feb 5, 2020
Private earnings
Update Server PHP and SSL Cert
Nov 5, 2019
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Nov 5, 2019
Private earnings
Configure ISPconfig to CPanel on Linux Server
Sep 28, 2019
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Oct 10, 2019
"Pradeep is fluent in English. He is very helpful and provide good suggestions to solve my server problem. We will engage him again in the future."
Private earnings
GCP web hosting hookup
Aug 13, 2019
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Aug 14, 2019
"He was swift to handle the work and knowledgable about GCP. Thank you Pradeep!"
Private earnings
Fix checkout issue on wordpress site
Feb 15, 2019
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Aug 12, 2019
"A good wordpress problem solver."
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My AWS Server is Down due to Storage Space Full, Need this fixed Now
Aug 1, 2019
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Aug 1, 2019
"Thanks, great work!"
Private earnings
Sys administrator for cPanel mail
Jun 13, 2020
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Present
Job in progress
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Transfer Existing Site to Digital Ocean
Feb 18, 2020
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Present
Job in progress
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Urgent Microsoft 365 to Google Suite Email Migration Project
Oct 24, 2019
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Present
Job in progress
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Plesk / Centos Linux server high memory usage
Oct 9, 2019
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Present
Job in progress
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Move hosting to a script to my server. setup, domain, and sql databases.
Oct 9, 2019
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Present
Job in progress
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Server admin → troubleshoot / LINODE
Jun 29, 2019
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Present
Job in progress
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Install a SSL/TLS Let’s Encrypt cert into a cPanel account
Jun 10, 2019
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Present
Job in progress
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DigitalOcean Site Setup
Feb 26, 2019
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Present
Job in progress
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DNS server
Dec 24, 2017
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Present
Job in progress
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Setup a VPS Server on Hostgator
Aug 17, 2017
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Present
Job in progress
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Skills
- Information Security
- LAMP Administration
- Linux System Administration
- OpenVZ
- Unix System Administration
- cPanel
- Plesk
- Web Host Manager