Anyone can deploy a demo. The hard part is keeping real products alive, secure, and affordable, 24 hours a day, with a small team. This is how we do it.
We run our own servers and GPUs rather than renting everything, so we control cost, latency, and data. A small set of well-understood pieces, kept boring on purpose.
Self-hosted application servers and GPU inference, with pay-as-you-go cloud inference as an overflow tier. We pay for burst, not for idle.
nginx as the single public door, Cloudflare in front for TLS, caching, and DDoS protection. Every internal service binds to localhost only.
Postgres and SQLite with WAL, uniform connection handling, checkpoint-on-shutdown, and nightly off-box backups. One registry owns every database handle.
Continuous polling of gateway, models, database writability, event-loop lag, memory, and provider health, with owner alerts on regressions and a public status page.
Circuit breakers on every external provider. When a model or region degrades, traffic fast-paths to a healthy path instead of eating the timeout.
Bounded work queues with priority and drop-oldest-with-audit, so a flood of load slows down gracefully instead of falling over.
State is partitioned so services scale horizontally without a rewrite, and every restart checkpoints cleanly so no work is lost.
Credentials live in mode-600 environment files, never in the repository, and privileged operations are isolated to the one service that needs them. Payment card data goes straight to Stripe and never touches our servers.
Multi-tenant features authorize on ownership at every mutation, verified by adversarial testing, so one customer can never see or touch another's data.
Our mail runs with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC at enforce, rDNS aligned, and a perfect deliverability score, with domain-ownership verified over DNS before anything is provisioned.
Automated moderation and administrative actions are logged with a clear trail and a real appeals path, because the ability to reverse a mistake matters as much as the action.
We test changes by driving the real flow and watching the result, not by trusting that it should work. If we say it's fixed, we saw it fixed.
Ambitious products, conservative operations. We keep the moving parts few and well understood so the interesting risk stays in the product.
Runbooks, deploy notes, and the reasoning behind decisions are recorded, so the system is understandable by whoever touches it next.
If running real infrastructure and owning problems end to end sounds like your idea of a good time, come build with us.