Home-Lab Projects, Networking, Hacking, and More!

Hosting my own Nameservers

DNS Nameservers are essential when managing and maintaining a domain name (like alexpro.net). The goal of this project is to host my own cloud based authoritative nameserver and use it to manage my domain records. The initial motivation for this project was to enable me to create a PTR record...

Consolidation of Homelab Services

Currently, my home-lab is a mashup of several different servers and networking equipment. This project will focus on consolidating my self-hosted services onto one physical machine. I will utilize Proxmox to virtualize everything on my network, from my website, game servers, and even my router. Some services are already virtualized,...

Setting up a WAN with Oracle Cloud VPS

The goal of this project is to configure an Oracle Cloud VPS instance to run pfSense as the front end for my wide area network (WAN). The basic idea is that I will be able to connect multiple routers to this VPS over a VPN and utilize policy routing to...

Hosting an Email Server

Email is a service that everyone is familiar with, and it's an essential part of our digital lives. For this project, I plan to configure a server to allow me to receive and send emails from a domain name that I own. This will benefit me in two ways: Emails...

Network Segmentation with pfSense

Networking

In this project, I am working on securing and segmenting my LAN into five different networks. Below is a short description of each and their intended use. LAN This network will be used by my trusted devices and will be prioritized over the other networks. Clients on this network can...

Virtualization With Proxmox

Virtualization

In this project, I installed and configured Proxmox to act as my primary hypervisor. With Proxmox, I am able to configure and manage my virtual machines through a web interface. This allowed me to access all of my projects away from home.

Hosting the Spring 2023 Race To Root Flag Submission Page

Race to Root is a local capture the flag competition created and hosted by Jake Keenan at Tennessee Tech University. Being a previous participant in the event, I was happy to allocate some resources to host the flag submission page. I took this as an opportunity to become the system...

Installing pfSense to Oracle Cloud

Networking

In this project, I will be configuring an Oracle Cloud VM as a pfSense firewall. Successfully completing this project will allow me to route traffic between any networks that I manage, even behind CG-NAT. This will tie into my larger project where I aim to create a WAN to interconnect...