Delotha I.T. Consulting

One Sysadmin's Life

This website is owned and operated by Ryan Loudfoot

Services I Can Provide

Network setup/upgrade/troubleshooting
PC and network security analysis and hardening
PC hardware and software upgrades
Peripheral replacement (monitors, keyboards, printers)
Backup system setup and testing
Setup and maintain uptime monitoring
Setup and maintain digital signage
Troubleshoot point-of-sale machines
Cloud service setup and administration
- I have experience setting up Microsoft Office/Microsoft 365 and Google Suite
- User account administration

PC hardware and software upgrades
Mobile device setup, migration, and support (iPhone, iPad, and Android)
Set up, troubleshoot, or improve your home or small company network infrastructure, including implementing security best-practices and following the Keep-it-Simple mindset.
Set up and grow your smart home using Home Assistant, to allow you to collect data and control your lights and other devices remotely or using automation, and grow your smart home at your own pace and budget.
Linux systems administration, including private and public cloud infrastructure.
Basic I.T. disaster recovery and backup planning.
Smart Home design, setup, installation, and training (Home Assistant)
Setup of whole-home advertisement blocking (piHole or Adguard)
- Doesn’t work for YouTube ads, but often works for ads in free games and on many websites
- Works on all devices on the network

Delotha Consulting is a very small company made up of just me, Ryan Loudfoot, for now.
I’m an amateur Linux system administrator and programmer. I help small companies manage their Linux servers using Salt, Ansible, and sometimes Puppet. I also help them monitor their infrastructure using Zabbix, but I used to use Nagios.
I taught myself how to be a system administrator, finding joy in streamlining tasks for better efficiency. Thanks to the power of the software above and picking up Python along the way, I’ve significantly boosted my effectiveness. Keeping things simple is key for me, making sure my home network and business infrastructure stay easy to manage.
For my home network, I learned how to configure switches with VLANs, access ports and trunks, and a small variety of other required pieces of info to keep my IoT devices, security cameras, and other networks secure, while still having access to the other devices and networks they need. I use pfSense along with TP-Link network equipment to try to get as close to enterprise-grade equipment and processes without paying enterprise prices.
I run running Pi-hole for DNS ad blocking network-wide.

I use Git (GitHub and privage GitLab repos) to manage my own company and home infrastructure, such as:

Salt master and salt pillar configurations. (Private)
Puppet server configurations. (Private)
Ansible configurations. (Private)
A very basic custom backup script (The configuration scripts for it are managed privately with Salt.)
A basic Discord bot in Python, which I used to help me learn Python and accessing APIs, while offering communication tools for my friends and I about when we are playing games so we can get more of us together at once.
An automation script to automatically deploy my customer’s application for their new client. This Python program utilizes the customer’s ticketing system to get the new client’s info, then creates a database, website files, and Apache hosting files. (Private)
Two mods for a game called Project Zomboid.