Openbyte — Stable, Open Source ICT Solutions
With over 20 years of industry experience, Openbyte delivers reliable, open source-based ICT solutions to businesses across South Africa. We specialise in Linux support across all major distributions — including Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, and SUSE — and offer flexible service agreements tailored to your needs, whether that’s standard office hours or 24/7 availability.
What We Do
We provide both ongoing support contracts and once-off installations for a wide range of open source server solutions, including application servers, firewalls (IPtables / PFsense), mail servers (Postfix), web servers (Apache / Nginx), hosting platforms (cPanel / DirectAdmin), database SLAs (MySQL / MariaDB), VPN solutions (OpenVPN / PPTP), backup systems (BackupPC / rsync), network monitoring (Zabbix), caching proxies, FTP, Windows file sharing, CUPS printing, and more.
- High Availability & Clustering
For mission-critical applications, we design and deploy Linux high availability clustering solutions built from proven technologies. Using a combination of Ceph, GlusterFS, HAProxy, DRBD, Corosync, Pacemaker, and Keepalived, we create resilient infrastructure that keeps your systems running — even when hardware fails.
Our HA stack integrates seamlessly with KVM virtualisation for real-time disaster recovery, replicating virtual machines so that failover is near-instant and transparent.
- Load Balancing
HAProxy gives us powerful Layer 4 (TCP) and Layer 7 (HTTP) load balancing with SSL/TLS termination, sticky sessions, health checking, and real-time statistics. We deploy it in active-passive, active-active, or multi-tier architectures depending on your scale and requirements.
Traefik complements our stack for modern containerised environments, offering automatic service discovery, native Docker and Kubernetes integration, zero-downtime config updates, and built-in Let’s Encrypt SSL — all with a live monitoring dashboard.
Both are fully integrated with our HA stack and monitored through Prometheus and Grafana.
Servicing clients nationwide across South Africa. Get in touch to discuss a solution that works for your business.