About — the operator

One developer. One phone. One promise.

ThatWebHostingGuy is not a brand sitting on top of a reseller agreement. It is a real person running a real Linux box in the Ozarks, and the very small set of standing rules that person will not break.

Operator · ThatDeveloperGuy

Ten years on Linux. One author on the repo.

I have been running production Linux servers for over a decade. In that time I have shipped static sites, Django monoliths, Go services, distributed systems, and more nginx configs than I want to count. Along the way I watched small businesses get rolled by hosts that did not care about them, or care about their sites.

ThatWebHostingGuy started as a deliberate bet in 2024 that a lot of those businesses would prefer one person who answers to a call center that does not. The network has grown to one hundred and thirty seven vhosts and keeps growing, one conversation at a time.

Alongside the hosting I maintain MEGAMIND, a distributed brain research stack, an AEO tooling chain that runs across every site on the network, and ThatDeveloperGuy, the agency arm that handles bigger custom builds. Knowing the origin, the edge and the content layer in one head is why migrations stop being risky.

10+
Years in production Linux
137
Live vhosts today
99.99%
Rolling 90 day uptime
0 layers
Between you and the dev
04

The short list I will not break.

One owner on the repo. Every production config and every deployed line is written, reviewed, shipped and fixed by the same person. No silent handoff. No anonymous tier two.

No oversell. The Ozarks origin runs on real metal. When the box fills up, onboarding pauses until new capacity lands. That is why there is a quarterly slot limit.

No dark launches. Every flip is preceded by a staging URL, a redirect map and an agreed window. You always see the site before the world sees the site.

No lock in. If you want to leave, your data and DNS walk out with you. Migration handoff documents are written before the handoff is needed.

No fake reviews. Every testimonial on this network corresponds to a real business with a real domain and a real email address. If it is on the site, it is verifiable.

Brands under the same roof.

The same operator runs a short stack of related projects. If ThatWebHostingGuy hands you off, it will usually be to one of these, with warm introduction.

ThatDeveloperGuy

Custom builds, application engineering, distributed systems. The agency layer behind heavier engagements.

thatdeveloperguy.com

ThatAIGuy

LLM, retrieval, AEO research. Powers the answer engine tooling that ships with every site on this network.

thataiguy.org

ThatStupidComputer

Hardware + home lab journal. The research rack behind the infrastructure you are hosted on.

thatstupidcomputer.com

FreeAICharity

Pro bono AI tooling for nonprofits and small charities. Runs on the same boxes, never billed.

freeaicharity.org
Ready when you are

Want to talk?

Thirty minutes. Free audit on the way out. Most calls start with “I have a weird situation” and end with “oh, that is actually simple.”