Capability / Database Administration
Your data, properly kept.
Database administration for businesses without a DBA: setup, backups, performance tuning, security hardening, and migrations across Postgres, MySQL, and cloud platforms. Self-hosted on infrastructure you control, monitored by automation that never forgets a backup.
— POSTGRES · MYSQL · NOCODB · AWS · DOCKER
Why this platform
Why teams choose it
A DBA Without the Salary
01A full-time database administrator runs $120K+ a year. Automated administration — monitored backups, health checks, alerting — covers the 95% of DBA work that is routine.
Backups That Actually Restore
02Most businesses discover their backups are broken during the emergency. We automate backups and restore tests, so recovery is a rehearsed procedure, not a prayer.
Own Your Data Layer
03Self-hosted Postgres on a ~$20/mo VPS routinely replaces $500+/mo in managed database and SaaS data fees — with no row limits and no vendor lock-in.
Performance Tuned to Workload
04Slow queries cost staff hours daily. Indexing, query optimization, and capacity tuning are measured before and after, in milliseconds and dollars.
Security and Compliance Built In
05Encryption at rest and in transit, least-privilege access, and audit logging configured from day one — aligned with HIPAA, SOC 2, and PCI-DSS where required.
23+
HRS / WEEK GIVEN BACK
$42k
ANNUAL LABOR RECOVERED
30
DAYS TO LIVE
What we build
Capabilities we ship
Setup & Architecture
01Schema design, hosting selection, and environment setup matched to your workload — from a single Postgres instance to replicated multi-region setups.
Automated Backup & Recovery
02Scheduled backups with offsite copies, retention policies, and automated restore verification. Point-in-time recovery when minutes matter.
Performance Tuning
03Query analysis, indexing strategy, and configuration tuning that turn multi-second reports into sub-second ones.
Migrations & Upgrades
04Spreadsheets to Postgres, legacy systems to modern stacks, on-premise to cloud or back — with zero-surprise cutovers and rollback plans.
Monitoring & Alerting
05Automated health checks on disk, replication, slow queries, and connection saturation, alerting you before users notice anything.
Access Control & Hardening
06Role-based permissions, network isolation, encryption, and audit trails — the controls auditors ask about, in place before they ask.
Five phases. Thirty days to live.
Our process →01
Discover
Ops audit, process maps, ROI ranking.
02
Design
Architecture and tool picks — approved first.
03
Build
Constructed and tested against every edge case.
04
Launch
Deployment, training, real adoption.
05
Optimize
Monitoring, monthly reports, new wins.
Questions
Database Administration — FAQ
Do we really need database administration as a small business?
If your operations depend on data — orders, customers, jobs, billing — then yes. The need shows up as slow systems, lost records, or a failed restore at the worst moment. Administration is cheap; data loss is not.
Can you migrate us off spreadsheets or a legacy system?
Yes, and it is one of the most common projects we run. We design a proper schema, migrate and validate the data, and usually pair it with NocoDB so your team gets a familiar spreadsheet-style interface over a real database.
Self-hosted or managed cloud database — which should we pick?
Self-hosted Postgres on a ~$20/mo VPS wins on cost and control for most SMB workloads. Managed cloud (RDS, Cloud SQL) wins when you need elastic scale or strict uptime SLAs without touching servers. We recommend by workload, not by what is fashionable.
How do automated backups work?
Scheduled jobs snapshot your database, encrypt it, and ship copies offsite on a retention schedule. Restore tests run automatically so you know backups work before you need them. Alerts fire if any step fails.
What does database administration cost?
Setup and hardening typically fall under our standard $7,500 build. Ongoing automated monitoring and backups run on infrastructure costing tens of dollars a month — not the $120K salary of a full-time DBA.
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Where we go from here
Start with a call.
Thirty minutes, no pitch deck. We map your operations, find the friction, and show you where automation actually earns its keep. If there's no fit, we'll say so.
No subscription.
No lock-in.
No surprise invoices.