Thomas SUCHON

About me: System administrator for almost 6 years, I offer outsourcing services, maintenance services and support through my company VirtuBox. My areas of expertise are the deployment and maintenance of infrastructure (s) for web hosting.
My career: After a general scientific baccalaureate, I obtained in 2013 an Associate’s degree, Networks and Telecommunication at the University of Poitiers, then a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Network and systems administration in 2014 at the University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour
My missions: The missions I've been working on range from setting up a linux server to hosting a WordPress site to deploying a high-availability infrastructure composed of several servers. I carry out regular audits on security and performance aspects and offer advice on designing, implementing and deploying hosting solutions.
My projects: Attached to the culture of free and open-source, I am lead developer of the open-source project WordOps. This is a command-line application that enables automated deployment of sites with Nginx. I also regularly write articles and tutorials on my blog Jesuisadmin.

Nginx — 95%

Linux — 85%

WordPress — 90%

Plesk — 85%

Proxmox — 85%

LXD — 75%

Docker — 75%

Magento — 75%

The steps of outsourcing

01 Consultation

Defining your needs and creating a quote

02 Audit

Analysis of the existing and production of a report

03 Compliance

Optimization, security and implementation supervision

04 Support

I remain at your disposal for any request for support

The solutions I use

Nginx

A powerful, lightweight and efficient web server and reverse proxy

MariaDB

The open-source alternative of MySQL-server, acclaimed for its performance

Ubuntu

The cloud-based operating system based on Debian

Plesk

The server administration panel that facilitates the management of WordPress sites

Proxmox

The free virtualization solution based on KVM & LXC

Git

The most popular versioning tool on the web

LXD

The improved version of LXC which offers better insulation of containers

WordPress

The most popular CMS for website creation

Redis

A key storage system in memory, very powerful

Magento

The professional e-commerce reference platform

Docker

The system for executing applications via containers

Netdata

A real-time, lightweight and customizable monitoring platform

Some stats

6 Years of experience

as a freelancer

62 missions validated

on the site malt.fr

360 servers deployed

on average every year

2212

Contributions

to open-source projects on Github

What my customers thinks about me

Thomas has been excellent on this project. This was a very difficult deployment of a complex technical challenge that we had really struggled with. Thomas gave us fresh ideas and several possible new approaches, and then worked through these to find a method that was viable. He then worked with us throughout testing, to ensure we had a smooth go-live with no problems in production. He saw a difficult task through to completion, with good communication with me throughout the process. Based on this project, I can highly recommend him to you.

Howlett and Company Ltd

Thomas was a very hard worker and completed the job in less hours than expected. Thomas looked at our current environment and communicated what could be improved on the existing server and also advised the benefits of migrating to a new server instance. We choose to go for the latter and Thomas successfully built the new environment from scratch, optimised then migrated our site at an agreed time. The process was handled with just a few minutes of down time (in the early hours of the morning). Since the migration, the site has performed much better than it was prior to hiring Thomas, which was the goal. Overall I am very happy with the work Thomas carried out, he is a credit to Upwork and he will be the first person I contact if I need to hire for any similar jobs in the future.

Vapour Depot Limited

Thomas is a real pro in what he does, I definitely recommend him as a server optimization specialist.

Bioloka SARL

Thomas was very professional and performed the job I assigned him flawlessly. I’d recommend him to anyone looking for a no-headaches job done well.

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