When you are the only one
The recovery steps that live in one person's head
persona - Systems Administrator
Take a vacation. Leave the estate covered.
If you are the only person who can recover the cluster, a week off is a company risk. We work the same systems you do: Proxmox and KVM, ZFS and Ceph and GlusterFS, Pacemaker clusters, Postgres and MySQL. The point is coverage, so the estate is not a one-person job.
Production incidents
Incidents still happen when you are out. Someone has to be able to pick them up.
The specialized corners
Storage, filesystems, clustering and Linux virtualization
Upgrades with dependencies
Distribution upgrades under applications nobody wants to touch
Common challenges
What makes you the only one
The work that lives in one person's head, and the risk if they leave.
High Availability
Reduce downtime risk on systems where every minute of outage carries compliance exposure, public impact, or constituent trust.
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Infrastructure migrations
Cutovers, hyperscaler moves, and tenant-safe maintenance windows that don't become surprise downtime for paying customers.
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Legacy Modernization
Modernizing aging Linux systems without disrupting transaction-processing windows or core banking schedules.
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Disaster Recovery
Tested failover, backup integrity, and recovery objectives that hold up under examiner scrutiny.
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Monitoring & Observability
Visibility across heterogeneous Linux environments so incidents surface before outages show up for users, citizens, or downstream partners.
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Multi-Data-Center Operations
Platforms that have to stay up across sites, primary and DR, active-active or active-passive, with failover that has been tested, not assumed.
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If only you can recover it, you cannot take a week off.
Operational philosophy
How We Help
What coverage looks like
Someone else can pick it up. You can actually leave.
Coverage When You're Out
Someone who can take the page so a week off does not leave the company exposed.
Past Routine Administration
Performance bottlenecks, filesystem and storage behaviour, and configuration problems that do not resolve from a runbook.
Changes That Hold
Upgrades and maintenance planned around dependencies and downtime, so the fix does not become the next incident.
Depth In The Hard Corners
Clustering, high availability, distributed storage and Linux virtualization, which are the areas it is hardest to stay current in on your own.
Less Of The Same Work
Automation, configuration management and monitoring that take recurring tasks off your week.
Engineer To Engineer
Direct technical conversation and documentation you keep, so the knowledge is not only in your head.
Featured success
Proof, not promises
Real engagements, real outcomes.
Case study
American Dairy Goat Association
Non-profit · One-time migration
Getting Organizations Out of Trouble
American Dairy Goat Association
The challenge
How the American Dairy Goat Association migrated off AWS, upgraded Oracle, and got back to their mission, on a non-profit budget.
Case study
Follosoft
SaaS · Ongoing partnership
The 3 AM Phone Doesn't Ring Anymore
Follosoft
The challenge
How Follosoft stopped firefighting Linux infrastructure and got back to building their field-operations platform.
Case study
US Commercial Bank
2 Data centers
Modernizing a bank's integration platform. From the ground up.
US Commercial Bank
The challenge
How Crafty Penguins delivered a fully production-ready, high-availability, multi-data-center platform for a US commercial bank, from zero footprint to documented handover.
Services
Services
What this work looks like in practice.
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Want a week off that is actually off?
A short call with an engineer. Tell us what only you can do and we will tell you what we would cover so you can leave.
Conversation first, scope second. No pressure.