Austin, TX — MSP for media, esports & production

Run hot. Never down.

Kilowatt runs the infrastructure behind Austin's render farms, live streams, and edit bays. When the deadline is tonight and the show is live, “we'll open a ticket” is not an answer. So we don't say it.

Est. 2017 Austin, TX — Springdale Rd 24/7 NOC Stream-day standby
99.99% uptime24/7 monitoringNo tickets left behindRender farms babysatStream-day standbyYour NAS is not a backupAustin, TX
Receipts

Current load.

KW-NOC / AUSTIN-01 Live
99.99%
Measured uptime across client render, stream & storage infra — trailing 12 months
8min
Median response. An engineer picks up. Not an autoresponder
0
Client streams dropped on our standby watch since 2021
1,400+
Endpoints under management, edit bays to arena racks
What we run

Six circuits. One panel.

Every service below is wired for media & production studios, esports venues, creative agencies. One team, one flat rate, one number that always answers.

01

Managed IT

Helpdesk, patching, monitoring — the whole department. Your editors call, an engineer answers, the timeline keeps scrubbing.

Render farms babysat nightly
02

Cybersecurity

Ransomware loves studios: big files, hard deadlines, loose passwords. We lock the doors without slowing the pipeline.

Zero trust. Zero drama
03

Cloud Services

Burst renders to the cloud when the deadline says so. Bring them home when the invoice says otherwise. We run both ends.

Hybrid by design
04

Backup & Disaster Recovery

Your NAS is not a backup. Versioned, off-site, tested restores — because “we lost the project files” ends companies.

Restores tested monthly
05

IT Consulting

Building a new edit bay? Wiring an arena? We spec it, budget it, and stand next to it on opening night.

Spec. Build. Standby
06

Microsoft 365

Email, Teams, and the boring-but-critical stack. Configured tight, backed up, and kept out of your way.

The quiet utility
Stream day protocol

The war room is open.

Go-live days get their own runbook. An engineer is assigned, spares are staged, and the failover path is rehearsed before doors open. You produce the show. We hold the current.

Runbook v7 — every go-live
01 /

T-48 — Pre-flight

Full sweep of encoders, switchers, and uplinks. Every single point of failure gets a named backup and a tested cutover.

02 /

T-0 — Live watch

An engineer on comms, dashboards up, hands off your mixer. We watch the graphs so you can watch the show.

03 /

Hot spares, staged

Encoder dies mid-show? The spare is racked, patched, and warm. Cutover takes seconds, not a scramble.

04 /

T+24 — Post-mortem

What spiked, what almost broke, what gets fixed before next time. Written down. Actually done.

Signal reports

Heard on comms.

★★★★★
“Kilowatt sat in our control room for a 14-hour charity stream. An encoder died at hour nine. Viewers never knew.”
Maya TorresOverclock Arena, East Riverside
★★★★★
“We render overnight. They watch the farm overnight. Three years in, we've missed exactly zero client deliveries.”
Dane WhitfieldRattlesnake Post
★★★★★
“They told us our NAS was not a backup. Two months later a drive controller proved them right — and we lost nothing.”
Priya RamanCongress Avenue Creative
Three ways in

Pick your breaker.

All three end with something useful in your hands. None of them end with a contract shoved across the table.

60 min, free

Load test

We audit your infra under real pressure — storage, network, backups, failover. You get a plain-English list of where it melts first.

Start here
One event, flat rate

Stream-day standby

Hire us for one go-live. Pre-flight, live watch, hot spares, post-mortem. If we're not worth it, don't call again.

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30 min, zero pitch

Talk to an engineer

Thirty minutes with someone who racks servers, not someone with a quota. Bring your ugliest problem.

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Put us on the board.

One call. We'll tell you where your setup fails first — and exactly what it takes to fix it.

Get Kilowatt on standby Or dial direct — (512) 555-0166. An engineer answers.