Website, VPS hosting, and Microsoft 365 built from scratch for a US commercial insurance firm

The Challenge

Quick Haul Insurance Services, a US commercial trucking insurance firm, had no digital infrastructure in place. The team was operating on personal Gmail accounts with no business domain, no company website, and no shared workspace. Prospects searching online found nothing. Internal documents were spread across personal drives with no central storage or access controls. Before the business could grow, it needed a professional web presence, a secured hosting environment, business email under its own domain, and a cloud productivity platform, all built from the ground up.

Our Approach

BPro IT managed the full engagement end-to-end. Domain registration and DNS were configured first, establishing the foundation for everything that followed. A Linux VPS was provisioned and hardened: non-root SSH access with key-based authentication, UFW firewall restricting inbound traffic to necessary ports only, Nginx as the web server with TLS 1.3 and automatic Let's Encrypt certificate renewal, Fail2ban for brute-force protection, and automated nightly backups with offsite retention. The website was built to match the insurance services context: service pages, a quote request form, and a mobile-optimised layout. Microsoft 365 Business Standard was provisioned in parallel: Exchange Online mailboxes for the full team, SharePoint for shared document storage, Teams for internal communication, and MFA enforced on every account from day one. Email authentication was configured in full: SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records published and tested, with DMARC escalated from monitoring mode to enforcement within the first two weeks once deliverability was confirmed clean.

The Outcome

Quick Haul Insurance Services went from zero digital presence to a fully operational web and email infrastructure in four weeks. Business email replaced personal Gmail across the team on go-live day. The VPS has maintained 100% uptime since launch with automated patching and monitoring active. DMARC is at enforcement with a clean pass rate, protecting the domain from spoofing and ensuring reliable email delivery.

• Website live on hardened VPS within 4 weeks from kickoff
• Microsoft 365 provisioned: email, Teams, SharePoint, and MFA on day one
• SPF, DKIM, and DMARC fully configured and escalated to enforcement
• Personal Gmail accounts replaced with business email at go-live
• Automated backups and VPS monitoring in place from launch