Software that actually ships,
hosting that actually stays up.
Kohlisys is the small, senior team that small and mid-sized businesses call when they need custom software, reliable application hosting, or grown-up support for their Drupal and WordPress sites.
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Four ways we make
your tech less stressful.
We're not an agency, not a hosting company, not a freelancer. We're the people who own the whole stack — from the database schema to the cron job that emails you when something's wrong at 2am.
Custom Software
Internal tools, customer portals, integrations, and bespoke web apps. Built to your workflow, not against it.
Application Hosting
Managed, monitored, hardened hosting. Daily backups, staging environments, and a human on call when something breaks.
Drupal Support
Module upgrades, security patches, migrations from D7 → D10, and the painful integrations no one else wants to touch.
WordPress Support
Performance audits, plugin sanity, custom themes, and an honest opinion on whether you actually need that plugin.
A small team. A clear playbook.
No theatre.
Every engagement runs through the same four phases. You always know what's happening, what's next, and where your money's going. We meet weekly, write plain-English status notes, and don't disappear after launch.
Discover
Two weeks of paid discovery. We document what you have, what you need, what the constraints are, and what we'd build. You own the deliverable.
Design
Static comps, clickable prototypes, and an architecture diagram. Stakeholders sign off in writing before a single line of production code is written.
Build
Two-week sprints. Demo on Friday. We use the same boring, proven stack we've used for a decade — because it works, and you can hire other people to maintain it.
Operate
We host it, monitor it, patch it, back it up, and fix it when something breaks. Monthly check-ins. Quarterly roadmap.
Recent projects.
Real outcomes.
D7 → D10 with zero downtime over a federal holiday weekend.
Cut LCP from 4.8s → 1.1s and tripled organic conversions.
“We've been with three agencies in eight years. Kohlisys is the only one where I haven't had to ask twice. They built our portal, they host it, they fixed the thing the last guys broke — and they explain things like a person.”
From the workshop.
Why we still bet on Drupal in 2026 — and where we’d reach for WordPress instead.
The honest side-by-side breakdown we wish someone had handed us in 2018. Content modeling, accessibility, performance, plugin ecosystems, and the org-fit question nobody talks…
Our hosting runbook: what ‘managed’ actually means at Kohlisys.
Patching cadence, backup retention, the on-call rotation, the alert thresholds. The whole document.
What a $90k SaaS replacement actually costs to build (with numbers).
The full spreadsheet from a field-services engagement. Hours, rates, what we'd do differently.
Got something
tricky to build?
Tell us what's stuck. We'll send back a one-page assessment within three business days — no slides, no sales pitch.