Infrastructure / Integration / Resilience

Built to keep working when no one's watching.

PHXTEKS designs, deploys, and documents practical infrastructure for small operators, field environments, and the places systems need to hold up without a dedicated IT team.

Independent infrastructure & systems consulting West Michigan + Remote Reply in 1–2 business days

Capabilities

Four domains. The same engineering process behind each one — scope, options, execute, document, hand off.

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The Approach

Engineering, not ticket queues.

The same principles apply whether it's a single workstation or a building's worth of infrastructure. The work isn't done until somebody else can run it.

Scope is the deliverable.

Most projects fail at the boundary. The objective, constraints, and definition of "done" are written up front and agreed before work starts.

Decisions optimize for the third year.

Cheap shortcuts compound into the largest costs in the system. Designs are made to be operable, recoverable, and understood — by you, not by me.

The handoff is part of the build.

Every engagement closes with documentation a successor can follow. No tribal knowledge, no lock-in, no need to call PHXTEKS to find the password.

Security is a default, not an add-on.

Access control, segmentation, and recovery are designed in from the beginning. The cheapest time to harden a system is before it's deployed.

Selected work

Representative engagements, anonymized — what PHXTEKS work looks like in the field.

Network · Rebuild

Small shop, replaced consumer mesh with proper segmented network.

VLAN-segmented point-of-sale, office, and guest traffic; managed switching; documented topology for the next person who has to plug anything in.

VLANs · 3 Downtime · 0
Self-Hosted · Migration

Migrated SaaS file storage to self-hosted with verified backups.

Locally-hosted file server with offsite encrypted backup, scripted restore testing, and clear access controls. Monthly bill replaced with one-time spend.

SaaS retired · 2 RPO · 24h
Field · Deployment

Rural site brought online with monitored, low-touch infrastructure.

Networking, power conditioning, off-network monitoring, and a runbook the on-site owner can actually use when something goes wrong.

Site visits / yr · ≤ 2 Documented · fully
Start the conversation

Got something that needs to hold up?

Scope it out with PHXTEKS. Engagements start with a short conversation — no contracts, no sales call, just a clear-eyed look at what the work is.