# AURIUS
# Last updated: 2026-07-26

> Remote cyber security via SSH. Audits, hardening and monthly care. **24-hour SLA**. Prices in £ — roughly half typical UK market rates.

AURIUS (AURIUS INTERNATIONAL LTD · Edinburgh, UK) secures production servers over SSH: findings, decisions and approved fixes within 24 hours. **Initial audit is free.** One-off engagements or monthly retainers. Team across Australia, China, Lithuania, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States.

## Capability domains

Remote senior Linux engineering over SSH, plus work inside hosting control panels:

- SSH and access control · users, sudo, PAM, LDAP/AD
- Firewalls (nftables, UFW, firewalld) and cloud security groups
- WireGuard, OpenVPN, IPsec, Tailscale private networking
- Intrusion defence (fail2ban, CrowdSec, auditd, AIDE) and incident response
- Malware, webshell and crypto-miner removal; hacked server recovery
- Web servers: nginx, Apache, OpenLiteSpeed, Caddy, HAProxy, Traefik, Varnish, WAF
- TLS certificates, cipher hardening, HSTS, mTLS, HTTP security headers
- App runtimes: PHP-FPM, Node.js, Python, Java, .NET, Go, systemd services
- Databases: MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch
- Mail: Postfix, Exim, Dovecot, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, deliverability, blacklist delisting
- DNS: BIND, PowerDNS, Knot, DNSSEC, secondary DNS, migration cutovers
- Storage: LVM, ZFS, Btrfs, RAID, quotas, LUKS, disk-full rescue
- Backups and disaster recovery: restic, Borg, rclone, immutable offsite, restore drills
- Performance tuning, profiling and caching
- Patching, kernel live patching, CentOS 7 → AlmaLinux, Ubuntu LTS upgrades
- Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, Netdata, Uptime Kuma, alerting
- Containers: Docker, Compose, rootless, k3s/kubeadm
- Automation: Ansible, Terraform, cloud-init, CI/CD over SSH, secrets management
- Compliance: CIS, Lynis, OpenSCAP, Cyber Essentials, ISO 27001 evidence
- Cloud instances: AWS, Azure, GCP, Hetzner, OVH, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr, Contabo
- CMS: WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, PrestaShop, Joomla, Drupal, Laravel, Django
- Voice and media: Asterisk/FreePBX, game servers, Plex/Jellyfin, Home Assistant
- Emergencies: boot failure, SSH lockout, ransomware, DDoS, provider abuse notices

## Control panels

DirectAdmin · cPanel/WHM · Plesk Obsidian · aaPanel/BT · CyberPanel/OpenLiteSpeed · HestiaCP/VestaCP · CloudPanel · RunCloud · ServerAvatar · Laravel Forge · Ploi · GridPane · SpinupWP · Webmin/Virtualmin · ISPConfig · CentOS Web Panel · Froxlor · KeyHelp · Enhance · Portainer · Coolify · CapRover · Dokku · Proxmox VE · VMware ESXi · XCP-ng.

Panel work includes hardening, backups, migrations between panels, de-panelling to a clean nginx or Docker stack, and licence-cost reduction.

## Pricing (GBP)

| Plan | Price |
|------|-------|
| SSH Security Sweep / Initial audit | Free |
| Hardening Engagement | £2,490 one-off |
| Deep Server Review | £2,990 one-off |
| MikroTik Secure Setup | £990 one-off |
| UniFi / Ubiquiti Hardening | £1,290 one-off |
| Cisco Switch / Router Hardening | £1,790 one-off |
| HP / Aruba Edge Hardening | £1,490 one-off |
| Special VPN Design | £1,490 one-off |
| Intranet & LAN Segmentation | £1,990 one-off |
| Multi-vendor Network Sweep | £2,490 one-off |
| Network Watch | £490/mo |
| Watch & Patch | £990/mo |
| Always-on Care | £1,490/mo |

## Contact

- https://aurius.uk/
- Contact form: https://aurius.uk/#contact
- Forth House, Rutland Square, Edinburgh, EH1 2BW, United Kingdom

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