About
Why I bought my first server.
A site I hosted went down for three days on someone else’s server, so I refunded the client and bought a server of my own.
The short version
Eighteen years behind the curtain.
For most of those years I worked white-label. Agencies owned the client relationship, I ran the servers behind their sites, and ryandavis.com stayed a coming-soon page on purpose.
In 2026 I put my own name on the work. It runs through three companies now: Lucky Tyke builds sites, WebOps Hosting runs 125 WordPress sites, and Osita does the search marketing. I work from Binghamton, New York.
I build the tools that run them and write up how: the Monday dashboard, the bookkeeping pipeline, the audit that started Osita, and Foundry, the WordPress system this site runs on.
Get in touch
Tell me what you’re working on.
It comes straight to my inbox, and if one of the three companies fits, I’ll say which.