Hire a senior system administrator
Try to cover round-the-clock with one or two people. The math does not work at the scale you are running. One person cannot stay awake for seven days. Two cannot either.
Pricing
Server Management Pricing
$65 per server. 20% off at five servers or more. Additional 5%, 10%, or 15% off for quarterly, semi-annual, or annual prepay. Unlimited tickets. Month-to-month. 30-day money-back guarantee.
- 21 years of Linux server management
- Senior administrators with 8+ years on production Linux servers
- 5 to 10 minute urgent response
- 30-day money-back guarantee
$65
Per server, per month
20% off
At 5 servers or more
up to 35%
Off with annual prepay + volume
30-day
Money-back guarantee
Pricing
One Price. Two Discounts That Stack.
The base price is $65 per server per month. Five servers or more drops the rate by 20%. Quarterly, semi-annual, and annual prepay drop it further. The two discounts stack.
| Monthly | Quarterly (5% off) |
Semi-annual (10% off) |
Annual (15% off) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 to 4 servers | $65 | $61.75 | $58.50 | $55.25 |
| 5 or more servers Best value | $52 | $49.40 | $46.80 | $44.20 |
The lower the row and the further to the right, the better the math.
No setup fees. No fixed-term contract. The 30-day money-back guarantee covers your first month.
What You Get
What’s Included at the Per-Server Price
Every server you put under our care gets the full scope of our Linux server management. No add-ons, no per-task fees, no tier wall.
- 24/7 server monitoring of cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, Virtualmin, the underlying Linux operating system, and the full service stack — MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL where present, PHP, Apache, Nginx, LiteSpeed, Postfix, Exim, Dovecot, BIND.
- 5 to 10 minute urgent response. 10 to 30 minute response on standard tickets, often faster. Crashed servers rebooted in under 10 minutes.
- Unlimited tickets. No hourly buy-ins. No throttling. No ticket counters.
- Server hardening. ConfigServer Security and Firewall (CSF), fail2ban, ModSecurity, brute-force protection, two-factor on the panels and tools that support it. Hardening is the starting condition of every server we manage.
- Security patching inside the urgent SLA.
- Server migrations. Panel-to-panel, hardware-to-hardware, hardware-to-cloud, cloud-to-cloud. Final fast-sync runs just before the cutover, then DNS flips. End users wake up on new hardware without a status-page incident.
- Disaster recovery. A senior system administrator picks up the ticket and acts.
- Server optimization. MySQL and MariaDB query tuning. Apache, Nginx, LiteSpeed tuning for the actual traffic profile. PHP-FPM pool sizing. Disk I/O bottleneck triage. Memory pressure root cause analysis.
- SSL on every domain through AutoSSL, Let’s Encrypt, or your certificate of choice.
- DNS work. Zone management, SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records.
- Email and mail server work. Postfix or Exim configuration, Dovecot tuning, mail queue triage, spam control with SpamAssassin.
- All four panels. cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, Virtualmin. Same per-server price across all four.
- Every common Linux distribution. AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, RHEL.
- Any hosting provider. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, IBM Cloud, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, OVH, Vultr, Linode.
- The customer-facing ticket portal with encrypted fields for sensitive data.
Your Options
Three Options. The Math Sorts Them Out.
You have three real ways to get a 24/7 hosting operation off your shoulders.
The math is decisive at any scale where you are the only one on call.
The Real Cost
Compare the Cost to the Customer Who Walked
Think about the last hosting customer you lost over an outage.
The hours of acquiring them, gone. The marketing you ran. The onboarding you did. The trust you spent months building, written off in the four hours your server was down.
The online review that will sit there for years.
Now compare what that customer was paying you to what one server costs us per month. Most hosting companies do that math once and stop hesitating.
The 30-day money-back guarantee is the easiest check we ever signed because the hosting companies that try us tend to stay.
Pick Your Plan
Ready to move? Choose the plan that matches your control panel.
Versus Payroll
Compare the Bill to One Administrator on Payroll
For most hosting companies, the cost of having us manage every one of your servers is a small fraction of what a single senior system administrator on staff would cost — and you get something a payroll administrator cannot give you.
One administrator on staff
- One person, one perspective
- One time zone, with gaps
- Holidays, sick days, vacation
- Salary + benefits + ramp time
- Quits, moves, gets poached
- One pair of hands to lose
Server Surgeon
- A 24/7 pool of senior administrators
- 24/7/365, always staffed
- 8+ years per admin, many minds
- $65 per server, month-to-month
- No setup, no ramp, no goodbyes
- 30-day money-back guarantee
In place of one administrator on payroll, you get a 24/7 pool of senior administrators, each with 8+ years managing production web hosting servers. The bill is one number you can build your own pricing on, not a tier wall designed to climb.
The Fine Print
No Setup Fees. No Tier Wall. No Fixed Term.
| You do not pay for | You can leave anytime |
|---|---|
| Setup or onboarding | Month-to-month, no fixed-term contract |
| Hourly add-ons | 30-day money-back guarantee on your first month |
| Per-ticket fees or ticket caps | No tier wall to climb out of |
| VAT or other surcharges | No cancellation fee |
Pick Your Plan
Ready to dig in? Choose the plan that matches your control panel.
- During a server migration, do I need to pay for management on both servers?
No. When we migrate a server for you, we manage both the old server and the new server during the migration for the cost of one server.
- Do the volume discount and the prepay discount stack?
Yes. The 20% volume discount at five servers or more applies first, and the quarterly, semi-annual, or annual prepay discount applies on top. The two discounts stack.
- Can I bring my own backup?
Yes. If you already have a backup arrangement you trust, we can restore your Linux server from it when something goes wrong. We will not configure or monitor that backup system — that responsibility stays with your team — but we will work with what you give us at restore time.
- Do you charge a setup fee?
No. Onboarding is included in your monthly per-server price.
- What forms of payment do you accept?
Credit card, Stripe, and PayPal.
- Do you charge VAT?
No.
Still have questions? Browse our 150+ question FAQ or contact our sales team.
Try Server Surgeon for Thirty Days
If we are not the right fit, the 30-day money-back guarantee is the easiest check we ever sign. Month-to-month, no fixed-term contract. Most hosting companies stay because they do not get burned again.
No setup fees · 30-day money back · No contracts
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