madbox
Personal homelab

A box for learning infrastructure by breaking it first.

madbox is where I run the software I want to understand — self-hosted services, virtual machines, and a handful of things that only exist because I wanted to see if I could build them.

What runs here
Compute & Virtualization

Bare metal and virtual machines forming the backbone of the lab.

KVM
Containers & Orchestration

Services packaged as containers, moved over from Compose to a lightweight Kubernetes distribution.

DockerDocker Composek3s
Networking & Security

Custom firewalls, virtual networking, and DNS tie the lab together, with TLS handled automatically at the edge.

VyOSOVNDNSLet's Encrypt
Backup & Storage

Nothing here is precious unless it's backed up somewhere else too.

BorgNFS
Self-Hosted Services

This site, plus a growing list of self-hosted apps running on the box.

Static HTMLNginxTraefikcert-manager
Uptime
Up and running since 2026
Status
Active (tinkering)
Motto
Self-hosted, built from scratch, one service at a time.