Self-Hosted

Cloud-free.
Fully owned.

A personal infrastructure built on open-source software, running on bare metal. No third-party clouds, no subscriptions — just full control.

Foundation

Infrastructure

The backbone — virtualization, routing, storage, and orchestration running 24/7 on dedicated hardware.

Hypervisor

Proxmox VE managing virtual machines and containers on enterprise hardware with ECC memory.

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Firewall & Router

OPNsense providing stateful firewall, VLAN segmentation, VPN, and intrusion detection.

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Storage

Dedicated NAS with redundant drives serving media, backups, and application data over SMB/NFS.

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Orchestration

Docker containers managed through Portainer with automated updates and health monitoring.

Stack

Services

Self-hosted alternatives to cloud services — private, performant, and under full control.

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Media

Plex

Media server streaming movies, TV shows, and music to all devices.

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Media

Jellyfin

Open-source media system as a secondary streaming platform.

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Identity

Authentik

Single sign-on and identity provider with LDAP and SAML support.

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Security

Vaultwarden

Self-hosted password manager compatible with Bitwarden clients.

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DNS

Pi-hole

Network-wide ad and tracker blocking at the DNS level.

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Monitoring

Grafana & InfluxDB

Real-time dashboards visualizing system metrics, network traffic, and container health.

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Monitoring

Uptime Kuma

Uptime monitoring with alerts for all critical services and endpoints.

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Photos

Immich

Self-hosted photo and video management — a private Google Photos alternative.

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Access

Pangolin

Secure tunnel exposing selected services to the internet without opening ports.

Topology

Network

Segmented into isolated VLANs with strict firewall rules between zones.

Server Zone
Application servers, databases, and containers
Home
Trusted client devices — laptops, phones, tablets
IoT
Smart devices isolated from the main network
Guest
Internet-only access for visitors
WireGuard VPN
Encrypted remote access to the full network
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Firewall
Hypervisor
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Storage
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Containers