# Managed 30 Ubuntu Linux VPS instances, implementing disaster recovery strategies and ensuring optimal network configurations. 2022 – 2024 **Situation.** Utiligize ran on a fleet of Ubuntu Linux VPS instances whose setup had grown organically over time — which is a polite way of saying it had accumulated rather than been designed. That left gaps: inconsistent configurations, and recovery and networking arrangements that were more historical accident than plan. **Task.** The task was to get the fleet under proper management, harden the disaster‑recovery side, and make the network configuration consistent and sensible across every instance. **Action.** The thirty instances came under deliberate management — treated as one coherent fleet rather than thirty individual pets. Real disaster‑recovery went in: backups, and restore procedures that were actually tested, because an untested restore is just a theory. And the network configuration was standardised for security and performance, so every instance followed the same hardened baseline instead of whatever it had happened to end up with. **Result.** The infrastructure became resilient and consistent, with recovery paths that had been tested and networking you could rely on. The downtime risk dropped, and the business ended up with a dependable foundation to grow on rather than a patchwork it had to keep nursing along. --- - Role: Infrastructure Engineer - Categories: [DevOps](https://platform.engineer.company/categories/devops/), [Infrastructure](https://platform.engineer.company/categories/infrastructure/), [Reliability & Backups](https://platform.engineer.company/categories/reliability/), [Networking & VPN](https://platform.engineer.company/categories/networking/), [Linux & Servers](https://platform.engineer.company/categories/linux/), [Security](https://platform.engineer.company/categories/security/), [System Administration](https://platform.engineer.company/categories/system-administration/) - Services: [Backup & Disaster Recovery](https://platform.engineer.company/services/backup-recovery/), [System Administration](https://platform.engineer.company/services/system-administration/), [Networking & VPN Setup](https://platform.engineer.company/services/networking-vpn/)