systems & infrastructure

the unglamorous layer everything else runs on — networks, servers, containers, and the glue that keeps them up. most of it self-hosted on hardware i own, because the best way to understand infrastructure is to run your own.

what i run

• home network — pfSense router/firewall, LAN design, VLANs, DNS
• virtualization — Proxmox host, Ubuntu VMs, PCIe GPU passthrough
• containers — Docker for every project, reproducible builds
• services — systemd units, auto-restart, journald logging
• web edge — nginx reverse proxy, TLS via certbot, security headers

stack

os: linux (ubuntu, proxmox)
net: pfSense, nginx
ops: docker, systemd, certbot

why self-host

no cloud bills, full control, and every failure is a lesson. the PokeAI training node and this website both live on infrastructure i built and maintain by hand.