Angelic Infrastructure
Opinionated Infrastructure (Developer)We build the tools for you to use the best proven technologies.
If you want rapid iteration, want to repatriate your data, or hate yaml — we can help.
The AngelBox Capability
- Model Generated Reproducible Infrastructure - Zero Drift
- Rapid config change turnaround - Updates land in < 1 min.
- Develop (virtually) in production - Instant Deployment, rapid feedback loop.
- Instant Backups - Snapshots, as safe as possible.
- Portable Infrastructure and Data - Bring your cloud back on-prem.
Supported Products
Data Sovereignty Solutions - Server Appliances
- AMI NixOS - Root on ZFS
- AMI Internal DNS/Certificate Authority
- NextCloud - Freedom from Microsoft
- ForgeGo - Freedom from GitHub
Server Farms
- Dashboard managed website-farm
- GoCD per team - real pipelines (yaml free)
- Any service as a scalable server farm.
Services
- PHP Hosting Fixer-upper - Migrate to self-updating server farm
- PHP Site - Fixer-upper - Migrate to latest PHP versions
- Beyond PHP - PHP to Elixir-Phoenix migration
1The three sub-missions
AngelBox, PHP Rescue Services, Cloud Repatriation. The Missions page expands on each. What is the one-sentence outcome of each — the thing that is different for the customer once it is done?
2What is the one call to action?
One URL. The persona is strict about this: exactly one CTA to one URL, no stacked CTAs. And it should be the outcome, not the mechanism — get in touch, not read the docs.
3What question do you leave the reader with?
The closing line. The worked example ends on one: 'What would you expect of your infrastructure in order to call it angelic?' A question that makes them think about their own infrastructure is worth more than a call to action, and it can do both.
4The history, or no history?
From aerospace to agile pioneer to meta-tools. The aerospace training, British Aerospace and the factory floor, the Portland Patterns Repository and 1,800 tests, Kent Beck, the Agile Manifesto. Is that on this page, or is it for the Medium about page instead? The persona says no padding with backstory — so decide deliberately.
5What is the meta-tool argument?
Bash is the integration plane and it is seventies technology. Claude Code, Gemini Code, Pi-Agent all run on it. We need a developer's Excel — a programmable, inspectable, observable integration plane. Does it belong here as a thesis, or is it a separate article that links back?
6Who is this for?
The reader, specifically. Not 'dev teams' — a team that needs senior platform capability without committing to a full-time hire, and who is deciding whether a fractional engagement is worth it. What are they doing on the day they find this page, and what went wrong that made them look?
7Why should anyone believe you?
The proof, with numbers where there are numbers. Thirty years shipping the same way. AngelBox, Formae, and the tools they have shipped. If there is a customer story with a real number behind it, that is the strongest thing on this page — where is it, and what is the number?
8What is deliberately not on this page?
The persona says do not expose internal module names — AngelBox and Formae — unless the customer would name them. If this is the manifesto, then the products have their own page. Confirm that, and confirm the one email address or booking link is the only route to you.
Skills
Interests
Infrastructure that remains legible, automatable, and owned by the people who operate it. Declarative foundations, immutable operating systems, typed configuration, and tooling that makes the dangerous path explicit rather than magical. Bring us the awkward part — the integration nobody enjoys, or the system still held together by folklore. That is where useful work begins.