online since 1999 FR
Linux · infrastructure · security

Online
since 1999.No interruption.

Linux since 1996. My own servers, built and run by hand, have been online since 1999 and have never stopped. What I offer you, I run at home first.

cedric@clh.ovh → 27 years of history
No form, no salesperson. Answer within one business day.
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27 years, no gap.1996: first Linux boxes · 1999 → today: online, on my own machines

        
        
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Machines change. The service never does.

        

          
1996bedrock
First Linux boxes, first website. A year later, first paid web service.

          
1999online
First home servers online. They have never gone dark since. Until 2003, coder, then lead coder, then CTO of an online ad platform competing with DoubleClick in Europe, until Google came in.

          
2000l3dlp.com
l3dlp.com, registered on 16 June 2000. Still online.whois l3dlp.com · creation date 2000-06-16

          
2003→ 2013 · Marseille
Ten freelance years within the Sparrow studio at the Friche Belle de Mai: sites, platforms and hosting for institutions, festivals, theatres and companies.Région PACA · Friche Belle de Mai · MailInBlack · Maxicours · …

          
2015datamix.io
Cofounder and director of datamix.io, a privacy-first host.

          
2019clh.ovh
The infrastructure and security practice, direct.

          
2026today
Some fifty sites and services behind the same server as this page. Updates, backups, logs and security: hand-kept, every day.

        

      

    


    

      

        
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For anyone with a serious need.

        
A site that must stay up, data that must not leak, infrastructure that must keep pace. Whatever the size, the same standard.

        

          
Freelancers & SMBs
Make it work, fast, unhacked.
  • server setup and maintenance
  • WordPress, PrestaShop hardening
  • verified backups

          
Startups & scale-ups
Growing too fast, the infra can't keep up.
  • Docker, Kubernetes
  • CI/CD, GitOps
  • performance audit

          
Large accounts
A specialist on one critical component.
  • senior DevSecOps
  • complex migration
  • pentesting, hardening

        

      

    


    

      

        
03
What I keep running.

        

          
--diagnose
Diagnostics
Logs, configurations, metrics, down to the real cause. The problems nobody could solve are the interesting ones.
diag · perf · fix

          
--harden
Security
Audit, vulnerabilities, pentesting, hardening. Security from the first line of configuration, not as an add-on.
audit · pentest · hardening

          
--architecture
Architecture
From a single server to a cluster, on your hardware or in the cloud. What will last ten years, not what's trendy this quarter.
Debian · Docker · Kubernetes · Caddy · Nginx

          
--ci-cd
CI/CD
Automated pipelines and continuous deployment, with security checked at every stage.
GitOps · DevSecOps

          
--host
Hosting
Hosting and managed services, on my machines or at datamix.io. What I recommend, I run myself.
Go · PHP · Python · MySQL · MongoDB

          
--watch
Watch
Public security watch on intelligences.blog: open databases, Go vulnerabilities, attacks on AI.
govulncheck · OSINT

        

      

    


    

      

        
04
We fix it, then hand you the keys.

        

          

            
a typical engagement


clh --diagnose your-infra
  logs, configurations, metrics…
  ✓ root cause found, explained without jargon
clh --plan
  ✓ clear scope, clear quote
clh --deploy
  ✓ live, backups actually restored
clh --handover --docs --training
  ✓ you own the keys, you don't depend on me

          

          
    
            
  • 01You keep the keys.Access, documentation, passwords: all yours, all written down.
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  • 02A backup is a tested restore.Otherwise it's only hope.
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  • 03No jargon.I speak developer, sysadmin and business owner, and I translate.
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  • 04Free software first.No vendor lock-in when it can be avoided.
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Describe the problem, I answer within one business day. No obligation.

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