While I may not use GIT on a daily basis as I’ve never really had any real need to place a whole WordPress site in a git repository, I’m familiar enough with the technology and occasionally use it for personal projects like bash scripts and docker-compose files to make deploying new sites easy and fast.

From cleaning up redundant data or migrating websites connected to MySQL databases, I’ve got skills to perform manual backups and migrations without using 3rd party tools like PHPMyAdmin.

Virtual Private Networks is an essential tool to keep your work network private and only allow certain users access. It’s also a fantastic tool to lock a firewall by only allowing traffic through a dedicated VPN.

I’m very competent at setting up enterprise servers that run an Hypervisor as their Main operating system. My own server is configured with XCP-ng which is widely used in the industry because of it’s robust performance vs hardware load.

The software i’m mostly used to at present are the design suite from Affinity Software. Although I’ve used Adobe products in the past and have a firm grasp on good design principles and different file types software produce.

I fully understand DNS and hosting and host all my own websites by pointing domains via A or CNAME records to various servers depending on circumstances

Linux docker and docker compose is an amazing way to host microservices on a Linux server.

Since 2010 – WordPress has been my CMS of choice for a number of years now and I’ve learnt many lessons along the way.