Monthly patching
Windows and Linux updates applied in a window you approve, tested on a low-risk server first.
The Problem
Your Servers Run Fine Until the Week Nobody Is Watching
It shows up when servers are nobody's main job. Updates slip, backups go untested, and old operating systems drift past their support dates while everything still seems to work.
01 · Missed updates
Updates wait for months because nobody owns them.
Updates run every month in a window you approve, low-risk servers first.
02 · Untested backups
Backup jobs report success, but nobody has tried a restore.
We test real restores on a schedule and send you each result.
03 · Old versions
A server runs an operating system near the end of support.
Support dates are tracked, and upgrades get planned before each version expires.
04 · Shared logins
Admin passwords are shared, and former staff still have access.
Access moves to named accounts with MFA, and old accounts get removed.
Your office file server, the accounting app's SQL Server machine, and two Linux boxes behind the website all need care. Updates wait because nobody wants to break something mid-week. The backup tool sends a success email every night, but nobody has tried a restore. One server still runs Windows Server 2016, and its extended support ends on January 12, 2027. A former contractor's admin login still works. Then a disk fills up on a Saturday, and the website stays down until Monday.
We start with an inventory of every server: what it runs, where it lives, and when its support ends. Monitoring and a first restore test come before any change. Then each month, updates reach a low-risk server first and the rest in a window you approve. Access moves to named accounts, and upgrades get planned ahead of deadlines. Problems show up in an alert, not in a Monday morning call from staff.
Windows and Linux together
One team patches your Windows Server machines and Linux boxes on the same monthly schedule.
Backups proven by restores
Every plan includes real restore tests, so a failed backup turns up before you need it.
Support dates tracked
Each server's end-of-support date is on file, so upgrades get planned well before it arrives.
Our Server Management Services Process
From Unknown Servers to a Calm Monthly Routine in Five Clear Steps
You see every server in one inventory, approve each patch window, and get a monthly report showing what changed, what failed, and what's coming up next.
We go through your servers, where they run, and what worries you most: old versions, failed backups, or updates nobody owns. You get the plan that fits and a fixed monthly price within 2 business days.
What's Included
What You Get With Remote Server Management
Every plan covers monthly patching, monitoring, backup checks, and restore tests for Windows and Linux servers. Larger plans add more servers, a hardening baseline, more change hours, and faster response.
Compare Options
DeveloperLook vs an In-House Admin vs a Managed IT Provider
An in-house admin can walk to the rack, and a managed IT provider also covers laptops and staff. Here's where a remote server team fits for you.
| Feature | DeveloperLookBest fit | In-house admin | Managed IT provider |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | From $350 per month | A salary plus benefits | Per device or per user |
| Windows and Linux | Both, from one team | Depends on the hire | Varies by provider |
| Patch windows | Monthly, at times you approve | Whenever there's time | Set by the provider |
| Restore tests | Quarterly or monthly, by plan | Rarely on a schedule | Depends on the contract |
| End-of-support planning | Dates tracked, upgrades planned | Depends on the person | Often tied to renewals |
| Laptops and help desk | Not part of our plans | Usually covered | |
| On-site visits | Remote work only | On site every day | Often available |
| Best fit | Teams with 1 to 15 servers | Large, complex server rooms | Offices that need full IT |
DeveloperLook
In-house admin
- Monthly cost
- DeveloperLook: From $350 per monthIn-house admin: A salary plus benefits
- Windows and Linux
- DeveloperLook: Both, from one teamIn-house admin: Depends on the hire
- Patch windows
- DeveloperLook: Monthly, at times you approveIn-house admin: Whenever there's time
- Restore tests
- DeveloperLook: Quarterly or monthly, by planIn-house admin: Rarely on a schedule
- End-of-support planning
- DeveloperLook: Dates tracked, upgrades plannedIn-house admin: Depends on the person
- Laptops and help desk
- DeveloperLook: Not part of our plansIn-house admin: Usually covered
- On-site visits
- DeveloperLook: Remote work onlyIn-house admin: On site every day
- Best fit
- DeveloperLook: Teams with 1 to 15 serversIn-house admin: Large, complex server rooms
Projects We've Built
Business Websites and Internal Apps We Have Built
Business sites and internal apps our team built, the kind that run on servers someone has to patch and back up. They're builds, not server management contracts.
HR Attendee Attendance App Design & Development
- HR & Staffing
- Dashboard
- Mobile App
Borna's General Hardware Ecommerce Website
- Retail
- E-commerce
- Website
Renwick Fine Art Services Storage and Crating Website
- Art
- Logistics & Transportation
- Website
Nicefin Restaurant Website and Dashboard
- Food & Beverage
- Dashboard
- Booking System
What Our Clients Say
What Clients Say After Launch
Feedback from teams we have built web apps and websites for.
We had a pretty specific idea of what we wanted our website to become, but I wasn’t sure how easily we could explain all of it to a development team. There were quite a few moving parts, and we were working toward a deadline, so I expected a few things to get lost along the way. That never really happened. They understood what we were trying to achieve, kept us updated throughout the process, and got everything ready within the agreed timeline. The final site feels much easier to navigate, works beautifully on mobile, and is noticeably smoother for our customers. It was a huge relief seeing the original idea actually turn into the website we had in mind.
The mobile experience is probably my favourite part of the new site. We had spent a lot of time making sure the desktop version looked right, and the team kept pushing us to think about how everything would actually feel on a phone too. They were right. The navigation is clean, the interactions feel natural, and everything we’ve tested so far works exactly as it should. They also went through the links, forms, integrations, and other details more than once before launch, which I really appreciated. And even after going live, we could still reach out when something came up. The whole process felt friendly, organised, and surprisingly straightforward.
What I appreciate most is that the website is actually easy for us to manage now. We can update content ourselves instead of sending a developer a message every time we need to change something small. They also paid attention to the technical SEO side, which mattered to us because we didn’t want a new website to create problems for the traffic we already had. I’ve probably asked more questions than I should have since launch, but every question has been handled patiently and without any fuss. The team is easy to work with, they explain things clearly, and when we need something changed, they focus on getting it done rather than making the process complicated.
1,250+
Projects shipped
10+
Years of experience
Top 3%
Upwork Top Rated Plus
5 stars
Average review score
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Work Culture
Why IT Teams Trust Us With Their Servers
Good server care should make your servers boring again. These habits keep updates predictable, backups proven, and access under your control, with every change written down.
Patch windows you approve
Updates run in a window you pick, outside your busiest hours. A low-risk server goes first, so a bad update shows up before it reaches the rest.
Restores, not just backups
A backup job that reports success can still fail to restore. We test real restores on a schedule and send you the result each time.
Access you can revoke
We work through named accounts you create and can switch off in one step. Shared admin passwords get replaced with personal logins, not passed around.
Dates before deadlines
End-of-support dates sit at the top of every monthly report. You hear about an expiring version while there's still time to budget the upgrade.
Honest about scope
We manage servers, not laptops or a staff help desk. If a managed IT provider would cover your office better, we'll tell you before we quote.
Written down as we go
Every change, fix, and setting lives in a shared log and runbooks. If you bring the work in-house later, your next admin starts with the full history.
Overview
What do server management services include?
DeveloperLook provides server management services for businesses running Windows Server and Linux, in an office, a data center, or the cloud. We handle monthly patching, monitoring, restore-tested backups, access cleanup, and end-of-support upgrades. Plans start at $350 per month for up to 3 servers, onboarding takes 1 to 2 weeks, and every change is logged for your team.
DEVELOPERLOOK
Project facts · Server Management Services
- Service
- Server management services (patching, monitoring, backups, upgrades)
- Typical timeline
- Onboarding in 1 to 2 weeks, then monthly patch cycles
- Platforms
- Windows Server 2016 to 2025, Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, Rocky Linux, and AlmaLinux
- Built with
- Ansible, PowerShell, Prometheus, Grafana, and Uptime Kuma
- Experience
- 10+ years of development experience and 1,250+ shipped projects
- Post-launch support
- Next-business-day or same-business-day response, by plan
- Communication
- Calls in US, UK, and AU business hours
- Starting price
- From $350 USD per month, fixed scope after a free server review
Reviewed 10 Oct 2026 by Saimul Islam
Good fit
Small businesses with an office server
Your office relies on a Windows file server and a SQL Server app, and IT server management falls to whoever has time that week.
Companies running Windows and Linux
You run Windows servers for internal apps and Linux for the website, and you want one server management company handling both on one schedule.
Teams facing an end-of-support date
Your Windows Server 2016 machines lose extended support on January 12, 2027, and you need Windows server management that plans the upgrade now.
Teams without a full-time admin
Your last sysadmin left, and you need remote server management with clear runbooks while you decide whether to hire again.
Agencies hosting client servers
Your agency hosts client sites on VPS servers, and you want a server management service provider patching them quietly under your brand.
Not a fit
Want your app hosted for you
You want your website or app hosted and run inside your cloud account rather than existing servers looked after. Managed Cloud Hosting covers that setup.
Need your code maintained
Your problem is bugs and updates in your application code, not the servers under it. Web Application Maintenance and Support covers the code side.
Need laptops and a help desk
You need staff laptops, printers, and a help desk handled along with your servers. A managed IT services provider with on-site visits is a better fit.
One small site, under $350
You have one small website on a single VPS and a budget under $350 a month. Your host's managed plan will cover the basics for less.
Not sure we're the right fit?
Book a free call or message us. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right team.
Pricing
Transparent Starting Prices for Server Management Services
These are monthly starting points in USD. Your plan depends on the number of servers, their operating systems, and the response time you need, and you get a fixed proposal after a free server review.
For businesses with up to 3 servers that need updates and backups handled every month.
$350/month
- Up to 3 Windows or Linux servers
- Monthly patching in an approved window
- Uptime, disk, and certificate monitoring
- Daily backup checks and a quarterly restore test
- 2 change hours a month
- Next-business-day response
Recommended
For teams with up to 8 servers that want hardening and faster answers when things break.
$550/month
- Everything in Essential Server Care
- Up to 8 servers across Windows and Linux
- Hardening baseline based on CIS Benchmarks
- A restore test every month
- 5 change hours a month
- Same-business-day response
For companies with up to 15 servers spread across an office, a data center, and the cloud.
$950/month
- Everything in Managed Servers
- Up to 15 servers across several sites
- A yearly disaster recovery drill
- Written upgrade plan for every end-of-support date
- 10 change hours a month
- Same-business-day response, handled first
For Agencies
White-Label Server Management for Agencies and Studios
You own the client relationship. We supply the server work: patching, monitoring, backups, and upgrades for the client servers you host, delivered under your brand. Your team handles the client conversations, while we keep their servers updated and documented.
How the partnership works
White label: your client only ever sees your brand
- Your client
- You, the agency
- DeveloperLook
Share the servers
Send the client servers you host, their roles, and any known trouble spots.
- Client needs
- You share the details
- Details received
We take over care
We inventory, monitor, and patch each server on its own approved schedule.
- Scope and plan
- Proposal to resell
- Your quoteYOUR LOGO
You send reports
You forward branded monthly reports and approve upgrades with each client.
- Done by our team
- Your brand on it
- Handed to your clientDone
Partner with DeveloperLookDelivered under your brand
Your brand on reports
Monthly server reports delivered with your agency's name and logo on them.
Client servers patched
Every client VPS and server kept on one monthly patch schedule.
Monthly price per client
One monthly price per client, simple to bundle into your retainers.
Admins on standby
Engineers who answer your team's server questions during client projects.
The Right Technology for Your Project
Technology Stack
The operating systems, server software, automation, and monitoring tools we use to patch, watch, and document Windows and Linux servers.
- Windows Server
- Ubuntu
- Debian
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Rocky Linux
- AlmaLinux
- Nginx
- Apache
- Microsoft SQL Server
MySQL
PostgreSQL
- Ansible
- PowerShell
- Terraform
Docker
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Uptime Kuma
- PagerDuty
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Straight answers on cost, onboarding, Windows and remote servers, patching, workstations, and support.
Saimul IslamFounder & CEO, DeveloperLookStill have questions?
Send a message or book a call with the team.
DeveloperLook's server management plans start at $350 per month for up to 3 Windows or Linux servers. Managed Servers is $550 per month for up to 8 servers, with a hardening baseline and same-business-day response. Server Operations is $950 per month for up to 15 servers across sites. Every plan includes monthly change hours, and you get a fixed price after a free server review.
Onboarding takes 1 to 2 weeks for most setups. In that time we build the inventory, install monitoring, check every backup job, and run a first restore test. The first full patch cycle follows in your next approved window, so your servers are on the monthly routine within about a month of signing.
Server management is the routine work that keeps a server healthy: updates, monitoring, backups, security settings, user access, and capacity planning. It applies to physical servers in an office, machines in a data center, and virtual servers in the cloud. Without it, small problems such as a full disk or an expired certificate turn into outages.
A server management service is that routine work done for you by an outside team, usually for a monthly fee. A good provider sets patch windows with you, watches alerts, proves backups with restore tests, and tracks end-of-support dates. You should get a monthly report and keep full admin control of your servers the whole time.
Windows server management is looking after Microsoft Windows Server machines: updates, roles such as IIS and file sharing, SQL Server, accounts, and backups. It also means watching lifecycle dates. Windows Server 2016 extended support ends on January 12, 2027, so those servers need an upgrade or replacement plan now.
Remote management means a team looks after your servers over secure connections instead of visiting them. Work runs through a VPN, SSH keys, or remote desktop with named accounts you control. It covers almost everything except hardware swaps, so a remote team pairs well with a local technician or your data center's on-site staff.
We patch in a window you approve, starting with a test or low-risk server so a bad update shows up early. Servers that host critical apps get a fresh snapshot or backup check first. After each cycle we confirm that services, websites, and scheduled jobs came back up, and we roll back any update that broke something.
No, we manage servers only, not staff laptops, desktops, or printers. For workstation and server management under one contract, a managed IT services provider with a help desk fits better. We can work alongside one: they handle the office devices, and we handle patching, backups, and upgrades on the servers.
Server management support depends on your plan: next-business-day response on Essential Server Care, and same-business-day response on the larger plans. Alerts for stopped services, full disks, and expiring certificates reach us and your team together. Fixes inside your monthly change hours cost nothing extra, and bigger work gets a quote first.
Your servers stay exactly as they are, in your office or your cloud accounts. You keep the inventory, runbooks, monthly reports, and every script we wrote. On the last day we hand over or remove our named accounts, so the next admin or provider starts with a complete record.
Saimul IslamFounder & CEO, DeveloperLookStill have questions?
Send a message or book a call with the team.
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