- Problem
- Running real applications requires servers, networking, DNS, TLS, backups, and monitoring. I wanted full ownership of that stack instead of renting it piece by piece.
- What I built
- A Proxmox environment on dedicated Dell server hardware running more than 30 Linux containers and VMs behind an nginx reverse proxy, with Cloudflare handling DNS and edge security. The same platform runs a browser-based remote access gateway (Apache Guacamole), a media server protected by Cloudflare Access, and dedicated game servers.
- My role
- Everything: hardware, virtualization, network segmentation, TLS, deployment, monitoring, backups, and troubleshooting.