Built, secured, and self-hosted

This site isn’t a hosted website builder. It’s a small, real environment: Cloudflare at the edge, a secured perimeter, VLAN segmentation, and an Ubuntu VM on VMware vSphere running Nginx.

Why show this? Because it reflects how I think: reliable, observable, and repeatable — even when the “project” is small.

High-level flow

Simplified on purpose — enough to demonstrate design without exposing sensitive specifics.

Practices I apply (even on small systems)

• Patch discipline and hardening mindset.
• Restricted management access and reduced public attack surface.
• Monitoring/logging for visibility into abnormal behavior.
• Backups / snapshots for quick recovery.
• Preference for simple designs that are easy to operate.