Cloud, DevOps and security: problems we solve
15 problems cloud, devops and security bring us, each with the cause, what it costs and what we build to fix it.
Cloud, DevOps and security problems
15 articlesOur AWS (or Azure) Bill Goes Up Every Month and Nobody Can Explain It. How Do We Get It Under Control?
AWS bill keeps rising every month and nobody can say why? Where cloud spend hides and how SpiderHunts finds it, cuts waste and stops it creeping back.
Our Website Went Down and We Only Found Out When a Customer Emailed. How Do We Stop That?
Customers report your site is down before your team knows? Why outages go unseen, and how SpiderHunts sets up monitoring, alerts and a response routine.
Every Time We Release, Something Breaks. How Do We Stop Deployments Going Wrong?
Manual deployments keep breaking production and releases feel risky? Why hand deployments fail and how SpiderHunts builds a repeatable pipeline with rollback.
We Think We Have Backups but Have Never Restored One. How Do We Know They Actually Work?
Backups never tested and nobody sure they would restore? Why untested backups fail and how SpiderHunts sets up backups that are restored and checked regularly.
Our Team Shares Passwords and API Keys Over Slack, WhatsApp and Email. How Do We Stop Without Slowing Everyone Down?
Passwords and API keys shared in chat and email across the team? Why it keeps happening and how SpiderHunts moves secrets into a vault with proper access.
Our Server Keeps Running Out of Disk Space and the Site Stops Working. Why Does It Keep Filling Up?
Server disk full again and the site or database stops working? Why logs and files fill disks, and how SpiderHunts adds rotation, limits and early alerts.
We Test Changes Directly on the Live Website Because We Have Nowhere Else. How Do We Set Up a Proper Staging Environment?
No staging environment, so every change is tested on the live site? Why that keeps hurting and how SpiderHunts builds a staging copy that matches production.
Our App Gets Slower Every Month and the Developers Say It Is the Database. What Can Actually Be Done?
Slow database queries making pages and reports crawl as data grows? Why it happens and how SpiderHunts finds the worst queries and fixes them safely.
Our Server Is Running an Old Operating System That No Longer Gets Updates. What Are the Risks and How Do We Move Off It?
Server on an unsupported OS with no security updates? The real risks, and how SpiderHunts moves your applications to a supported, rebuildable setup safely.
We Have No Idea Who Still Has Access to Our Systems, Servers and Accounts. How Do We Find Out and Get Control?
Don't know who has access to your systems, cloud and tools? How access sprawls, and how SpiderHunts audits it, removes what is stale and keeps it tidy.
Our OpenAI and Claude Bills Keep Growing, but We Can't Tell Which Feature or Customer Is Driving Them. How Do We Find Out?
AI bill rising and no idea which feature or customer drives it? How SpiderHunts adds AI cost observability, tracing spend per feature, customer and prompt.
Our AI Agent Has Our API Keys and Database Passwords in Its Config. How Should We Be Managing Its Secrets?
AI agent secrets management done badly means broad, long-lived keys the agent can leak. How SpiderHunts scopes, stores and rotates agent credentials safely.
Our Monitoring Says the Site Is Up, but Customers Keep Hitting Errors We Never See. How Do We Catch Them?
Silent errors break checkout or forms while monitoring says the site is up? How SpiderHunts adds error tracking and alerts so faults surface before complaints.
Every Time We Run a Big Promotion, Our Website Falls Over. How Do We Make It Cope With Traffic Spikes?
Site crashes during traffic spikes just when a sale or campaign lands? Why it happens and how SpiderHunts finds the bottleneck and prepares the site for peaks.
Staff Have Shared Documents With 'Anyone With the Link' for Years. How Do We Find Out What Is Exposed and Lock It Down?
Company files shared publicly through open links in SharePoint, Google Drive or S3? How SpiderHunts finds exposed files, closes them and sets safer defaults.