Senior Technical Help Without Hiring Full-Time
Develton helps small businesses, agencies, founders, and lean technical teams stabilize, migrate, automate, and maintain their websites, servers, applications, and cloud infrastructure.
If your systems are live but fragile, your hosting is messy, your deployments are too manual, or nobody truly owns the operational side, Develton can step in for a focused short contract.
We work best with businesses that need practical execution, clear scope, and dependable technical ownership.
What Develton Helps With
Infrastructure Stability Audit
For teams that know something is fragile but do not know exactly where the risk is.
We review your hosting, servers, backups, DNS, SSL, monitoring, deployment process, security baseline, and recovery readiness.
Typical deliverables:
- infrastructure risk review
- backup and recovery check
- DNS and SSL review
- uptime and monitoring review
- server and security baseline review
- prioritized action plan
- recommended next steps
Best for founders preparing for growth, agencies supporting client sites, businesses with old VPS or shared hosting setups, and teams that inherited messy infrastructure.
Starting from: $750 fixed
Migration and Cutover Support
For businesses moving websites, applications, or workloads and wanting less risk during the transition.
Typical work includes:
- website and VPS migrations
- WordPress and PHP application migrations
- Docker-based application moves
- DNS, domain, SSL, and reverse proxy transition work
- mail continuity checks
- maintenance window planning
- backup and rollback preparation
- post-migration validation
Best for businesses moving away from fragile hosting, agencies migrating client sites, teams consolidating servers, and founders moving from old infrastructure to cleaner cloud or VPS setups.
Starting from: $1,500 fixed
Production Rescue Block
For urgent technical problems that need a calm senior operator.
Typical rescue work includes:
- broken website or app recovery
- Linux server troubleshooting
- high-load investigation
- SSL and DNS issues
- backup recovery
- malware cleanup coordination
- WordPress and PHP hosting issues
- cPanel and VPS cleanup
- Nginx, Apache, PHP-FPM, database, or storage issues
Best for live systems with downtime risk, teams without an in-house infrastructure engineer, agencies that need senior backend support during incidents, and businesses that need technical triage and a recovery plan.
Starting from: $1,000 fixed
DevOps Automation Sprint
For teams that are tired of manual deployments, inconsistent environments, and fragile infrastructure changes.
Typical work includes:
- Terraform cleanup
- Ansible automation
- CI/CD setup or repair
- deployment workflow cleanup
- environment standardization
- repeatable provisioning
- backup and restore workflow documentation
- basic observability improvements
Best for lean development teams, SaaS startups, agencies with repeated deployment work, and teams growing beyond manual server changes.
Starting from: $2,500 fixed
Managed Web Operations Retainer
For businesses that need ongoing technical ownership but do not need a full-time infrastructure hire.
Typical monthly support includes:
- uptime monitoring
- backup checks
- SSL and DNS lifecycle support
- WordPress, PHP, and server maintenance
- incident triage
- hosting and vendor coordination
- monthly health summary
- small operational fixes
- technical guidance for upcoming changes
Best for agencies, small businesses, content platforms, e-commerce teams, professional service firms, and founders with live systems but no ops person.
Starting from: $750/month
Why Work With Develton
Develton is led by Neil Borromeo, a senior infrastructure, DevOps, and platform engineer based in the Philippines with more than 15 years of experience supporting live systems for international clients.
Experience includes:
- Linux system administration
- AWS, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Linode, and bare-metal infrastructure
- Terraform, Ansible, Packer, Jenkins, Bamboo, CI/CD, and GitOps
- Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, Vault, ArgoCD, and Flux
- WordPress, Magento, Shopify, PHP, ASP.NET, and database-backed applications
- monitoring, logging, backups, DNS, SSL, incident response, and security hardening
- managed web operations and long-term infrastructure support
Develton is a good fit when you need someone who can combine infrastructure ownership, application support, migration planning, and practical communication.
How Short Contracts Work
1. Initial Fit Check
You describe the problem, current setup, timeline, and risk.
2. Scope Review
We agree on the specific outcome, access requirements, deliverables, and boundaries.
3. Fixed Contract or Hourly Block
Most work is handled as a fixed-scope contract. Urgent or exploratory work may start as a paid diagnostic block.
4. Delivery and Documentation
You receive the completed work, summary notes, risks found, and recommended next steps.
5. Optional Ongoing Support
If you need continued coverage, we can move into a monthly managed web operations or fractional infrastructure support arrangement.
Engagement Options
- Paid Diagnostic Block: for urgent or unclear problems, starting from $500
- Infrastructure Stability Audit: for risk review and recommendations, starting from $750
- Migration / Cutover Contract: for website, VPS, app, or hosting migration work, starting from $1,500
- DevOps Automation Sprint: for Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, deployment, or environment cleanup, starting from $2,500
- Managed Web Operations: for ongoing technical ownership, starting from $750/month
Good Reasons To Contact Develton
You may be a good fit if:
- your hosting or server setup feels fragile
- you need a migration but want less risk during cutover
- your backups, monitoring, SSL, DNS, or deployment process need cleanup
- your agency needs backend infrastructure help for client sites
- your development team needs Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, or deployment support
- your website or application is live but nobody truly owns operations
- you need a senior technical operator for a short contract