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Ship Code Without Holding Your Breath

Deploying to production shouldn't be stressful. It shouldn't involve SSH-ing into a server and running commands by hand. It shouldn't take the site down for 10 minutes. And it definitely shouldn't be something only one person on the team knows how to do.

We build deployment pipelines and operational infrastructure that make shipping code to your Craft site safe, fast, predictable, and boring. Every change is tested automatically, deployed without downtime, and reversible if something goes wrong. Your team pushes code; the pipeline handles the rest.

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What Goes Wrong Without It

We've inherited Craft sites where deployment means FTP-ing files to a production server. Where database migrations are run manually. Where there's no staging environment—changes are tested in production. Where the last person who understood the server setup left six months ago and nobody's touched the infrastructure since.

These setups work until they don't. And when they break—a botched deployment that takes the site down, a database migration that corrupts data, a security patch that nobody applied because the process was too risky—the cost is significantly higher than the investment in doing it properly.

What We Build

01

CI/CD Pipelines

Continuous integration and continuous deployment tailored to Craft's specific requirements. When your team pushes code, the pipeline automatically runs your test suite, compiles frontend assets, builds the deployment artifact, runs database migrations against a test database, deploys to staging for review, and—on approval—deploys to production with zero downtime.

We build on platforms your team already uses (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitbucket Pipelines) or recommend the right tool for your situation. The pipeline handles Craft-specific concerns: Composer dependency management, asset compilation, cache clearing and warming, migration sequencing, and the careful orchestration required for zero-downtime deployments.

02

Monitoring & Alerting

You can't fix what you can't see. We implement monitoring across your entire stack—server health, application performance, error rates, response times, database metrics, queue depths, and business-critical indicators like checkout success rates or API response times.

Alerting is configured with appropriate thresholds and escalation paths. Not every metric warrants a 2 AM page—but a sustained spike in 500 errors or a database approaching capacity limits absolutely does. We tune alerting to minimize noise while catching the signals that matter.

03

Disaster Recovery

Hard drives fail. Data centers have outages. Deployments go wrong. Someone accidentally deletes the production database. Disaster recovery planning ensures that when bad things happen—and they will—your site comes back online quickly with minimal data loss.

We implement automated backup systems with tested restoration procedures (untested backups aren't backups), failover strategies for critical infrastructure, and documented recovery runbooks so your team can restore service even if we're not immediately available. We also periodically test the recovery process because a backup strategy you've never tested is a hope strategy.

DevOps FAQ

  • 01

    We're a small team. Do we really need all of this?

    Not necessarily all of it at once, but you need the foundations. At minimum, every Craft site should have automated deployments (no manual FTP), a staging environment that mirrors production, automated backups with tested restoration, and basic monitoring. That's a few days of setup that prevents the majority of operational disasters. We can scale the sophistication up from there as your needs grow.

  • 02

    Can you set up DevOps for a site that's already live?

    Yes. We introduce CI/CD and operational infrastructure to existing Craft sites regularly. We'll assess your current deployment process, version control setup, and hosting environment, then build the pipeline incrementally—usually starting with automated deployments and adding testing, staging, and monitoring in phases. The site stays live throughout.

  • 03

    What if we already have a pipeline but it's unreliable?

    We'll audit your existing setup, identify the failure points, and fix them. Common problems include flaky tests that block deployments, missing rollback capabilities, deployments that cause brief downtime, and monitoring gaps that let issues go undetected. Sometimes it's a targeted fix; sometimes it's more efficient to rebuild the pipeline with your existing tools.

  • 04

    Do we need our own DevOps person if you set this up?

    For most Craft sites, no. A well-built pipeline and monitoring setup requires minimal ongoing maintenance. Developers push code, the pipeline handles deployment, and monitoring alerts if something needs attention. We document everything so your team can operate the pipeline independently. For complex or high-availability setups, a dedicated ops person or a managed retainer with us is advisable.

  • 05

    How do you handle zero-downtime deployments with Craft?

    Craft deployments involve database migrations, asset compilation, and cache management—all of which need careful orchestration to avoid downtime. We use strategies like blue-green deployments or rolling updates, pre-warming caches before switching traffic, running migrations before the code switch when possible, and maintaining backward compatibility during transition windows. The specifics depend on your hosting environment and scaling architecture.

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