Your own IT guy
Small IT jobs for a small business, an hour at a time
A website, email on your own domain, a bot, payments, a server you hear about first when it's down. When it needs doing and there's nobody on your side to sort it out. Remote, wherever you are.
Leonid Sopov
20+ years in software, works in English and Russian
What I help with
If it's a popular service that everyone buys but few can set up, I've most likely worked with it. Each section shows what people come with and what I do. Detailed write-ups are added one by one.
Domain and DNS
Register, transfer, set up records, connect Cloudflare.
Email on your own domain, newsletters, email from your website. Why emails land in spam and how to fix it (SPF, DKIM, DMARC).
Website
A simple site, a catalogue with photos, a shop, a forum, migration to another hosting (WordPress, Tilda, static). Maps and contact forms.
Server and hosting
Your own server, looked after: backups, updates, you hear about downtime first (VPS, Docker).
Payments
Donations, card payments, subscriptions, crypto.
Things that run by themselves
A request from a form lands in a spreadsheet and in Telegram by itself. Bots, reminders, spreadsheets that do the sums for you.
Security and housekeeping
Audit, access, two-factor login, bot protection, clean up a site after a hack.
Get advice
A second opinion on a quote or a contractor's work. Choose hosting or a service.
What people usually ask
This isn't a price list, just what people write. If yours isn't here, ask anyway.
A hacked account or data that's already gone usually can't be recovered, and I won't pretend otherwise. But I can set things up so it's much harder to repeat and there's something to restore from.
How it works
You message me on Telegram
In your own words: what doesn't work or what you want done. I reply within a day. Small things like email take an hour, a website from scratch a few days.
A call or a chat
Usually a call is enough: you share your screen, I tell you what to change. If access is needed, you create a separate account for me, I'll explain how. I don't copy or keep your data or messages.
It works. And you know why
If the task is bigger than an hour, I'll tell you up front. If something breaks after my changes, I roll back and fix it as part of the same task. You pay when it works, how we agree in chat.
You take the access back
When we're done, you delete my account and keys. Nobody keeps access, me included: I insist on that myself. All records and settings stay with you, and everything keeps working without me.
Who I am
Backend developer, more than 20 years of Go, Python and Perl. I built big systems in big companies, and here I help small ones: directly, with no middlemen and no long approvals. Experience and contacts: sopov.org.
Where I stand
I condemn Russia’s war against Ukraine. I don’t work with companies that pay taxes in Russia or Belarus or do business with them, or with people who support this war.
For churches, charities and other non-profits there is one condition: the person in charge doesn’t justify the war and doesn’t support it publicly. You don’t have to answer for the whole community, or make any public statements. I don’t ask, but if it comes out during the work, I stop the work.