Independent IT consulting for Australian businesses. Bring a problem — an infrastructure or security decision, a proposal you want a second opinion on, a recurring issue nobody's cracked — and get a straight, experienced answer. Backed by 30+ years of hands-on Linux, infrastructure and web work.
What you're paying for is knowledge and experience — senior-level advice from someone who's actually run the kind of infrastructure you're asking about. For most problems the deliverable is guidance: how I'd approach it, what to look for, and who should carry it out. Where a job's well-scoped and in my wheelhouse, I'll often take it on directly.
Servers, networks and the architecture questions that don't fit a neat box. Linux and FreeBSD work I'll often do directly; the bigger design questions I'll help you scope and steer.
Learn more →Practical, right-sized security advice for businesses without a dedicated IT team — what actually matters, what's noise, and how to get the fundamentals in place without an enterprise budget.
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Learn more →Not sure whether your question fits? Ask anyway. If it's not something I'm the right person for, I'll say so — at no charge — and point you toward who is. See how consulting works and what it costs →
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A growing library of plain-English explainers and straight decision guides, drawn from real client work and the infrastructure I run myself. This is the DIY tier — genuinely useful, and free. No filler.
DS Webhosting Services has been helping Australian businesses with their IT since 2000 — originally as DS Computing Services, providing website design and hosting to local clients.
The business has evolved alongside the technology: from shared hosting, through managing virtualised infrastructure, to independent consulting and AI-assisted development today. The constant throughout is the same — practical, honest, hard-won expertise, applied to the problem in front of you.
About David & DS WebhostingEmail me what you're dealing with. If I can genuinely help, I'll come back with a plan and a clear read on the cost — and if the answer is simpler than that, I'll tell you that too.
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