FreeIT SystemTartu

Since 2019 — independent

Small offices deserve infrastructure they can actually understand.

We are two people who keep the servers, networks and backups running for a handful of companies in southern Estonia. Everything we learn the hard way ends up written down here, in plain language, with the commands that actually worked.

  • 14 clients
  • 2–40 seats each
  • no licence resale
  • notes in English
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What we have been fixing lately

№ 040 · 18 Dec 2025 · backups

A backup routine that survives a stolen laptop

Restic to a local NAS, then to cold storage, with append-only keys so a compromised machine cannot delete its own history. Includes the restore drill we run twice a year.

№ 039 · 07 Oct 2025 · monitoring

Monitoring when nobody is on call

Four checks per site, one escalation path, and a rule we stole from a client's night shift: if an alert cannot be acted on before morning, it is not an alert.

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How we work

01

We inherit messes

Most of our work starts with an undocumented network someone else built and left. First month is always mapping, labelling and writing down what exists.

02

Open source first

Not for ideology — for the ability to read the config, script it, and move it to another box when the vendor changes its pricing.

03

You keep the keys

Every credential lives in the client's own vault. If you stop working with us on a Friday, nothing breaks on Monday.

Said about us

They spent the first two weeks drawing our network on paper before touching anything. Nobody had ever done that here.

Kadri — operations lead, logistics company, 34 seats

The restore test is the part I did not expect. We now know exactly how long it takes to get the accounting share back: fifty minutes.