Alex Ioannides
Head of DevOps
Prior to his tenure at itrinity, Alex founded FocusNet Group and served as its CTO. The company specializes in providing managed web hosting services for a wide spectrum of high-traffic websites and applications.
One of Alex's notable contributions to the open-source community is his involvement as an early founder of HestiaCP, an open-source Linux Web Server Control Panel.
At the core of Alex's work lies his passion for Infrastructure as Code. He firmly believes in the principles of GitOps and lives by the mantra of "automate everything". This approach has consistently proven effective in enhancing the efficiency and reliability of the systems he manages.
Beyond his professional endeavors, Alex has a broad range of interests. He enjoys traveling, is a football enthusiast, and maintains an active interest in politics.
Expert on: DevOps
Posts Verified by Alex Ioannides
Top SolarWinds Alternatives: Which One Fits Your Stack?
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The Best Server Monitoring Tools for 2026: A Practical Buyer’s Guide
Server monitoring tools watch the signals that matter, like CPU load, memory pressure, disk saturation, network throughput, and log output. They alert your team before...
Top Better Stack Alternatives for Every Budget in 2026
Better Stack combines uptime monitoring, status pages, incident management, log management, and observability tools in a single platform. That broad feature set makes it a...
Top New Relic Alternatives in 2026
New Relic is one of the biggest names in observability. The platform covers application performance monitoring (APM), infrastructure monitoring, logs, tracing, telemetry, and cloud visibility...
Top Pingdom Alternatives in 2026 (SaaS & Self-Hosted)
Pingdom by SolarWinds remains one of the best-known uptime monitoring platforms on the market. It offers uptime checks, synthetic monitoring, alerting, and performance reporting for...
Distributed Tracing: How It Works, Use Cases, and Best Practices
Distributed tracing lets you follow one request as it moves through every service it touches, with the full path, timing, and dependencies intact. It answers the...