PERSONAL TECHNOLOGY LAB // ONLINE

BUILD.
BREAK.
LEARN.

NerdsLab is my personal playground for servers, networking, self-hosting, automation, web development and everything worth taking apart just to understand how it works.

ENTER THE LAB ↗ VIEW EXPERIMENTS

LOCATION ZA // HOMELAB

FOCUS INFRASTRUCTURE + CODE

MODE ALWAYS LEARNING

nerdslab://console

nate@nerdslab:~$ ./status

initialising lab services...

[ OK ] cloud edge connected

[ OK ] web stack online

[ OK ] caffeine subsystem nominal

[ OK ] curiosity daemon running

nate@nerdslab:~$ █

LINUX+CLOUDFLARE+AAPANEL+ DOCKER+NETWORKING+AUTOMATION+ WEB+SELF-HOSTING+LINUX+ CLOUDFLARE+AAPANEL+DOCKER+ NETWORKING+AUTOMATION+WEB+SELF-HOSTING+

01 // ABOUT

Not a company.
A lab.

NerdsLab exists for one reason: to give ideas somewhere to become real systems.

It is a personal environment for learning by building — from Linux servers and reverse proxies to DNS, firewalls, containers, dashboards, websites and small tools that solve oddly specific problems.

Some projects become useful. Some get rebuilt three times. Some exist purely because the question “Can I make this work?” was asked at the wrong hour. That is the point.

02 // WHAT LIVES HERE

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Infrastructure

Linux servers, virtual machines, DNS, reverse proxies, TLS, monitoring and the plumbing behind everything else.

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Networking

Routing, switching, firewalls, VPNs, segmentation and practical experiments that turn diagrams into working traffic.

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Web + Code

Fast landing pages, internal tools, APIs, dashboards and experiments built with whatever stack makes sense.

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Self-Hosting

Services hosted on my own terms: containers, game servers, utilities, private tools and things the cloud forgot to make fun.

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Automation

Scripts, scheduled jobs and tiny quality-of-life improvements designed to remove repetitive work from the loop.

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Experiments

The category for projects that start with “this should be easy” and end with twelve browser tabs and a better understanding.

03 // CURRENT EXPERIMENTS

A01

NerdsLab Web Node

ACTIVE

This site itself — deployed through aaPanel, fronted by Cloudflare and used as the public door into the lab.

PHPNGINXCLOUDFLARE

A02

Container Playground

BUILDING

A rotating collection of Docker services, dashboards and utilities deployed, tested, broken and rebuilt.

DOCKERLINUXLAB

A03

Network Lab

ONGOING

Hands-on networking practice covering routing, switching, firewall policy, remote access and troubleshooting workflows.

NETWORKFIREWALLVPN

04 // LAB STACK

Tools change.
The curiosity stays.

NerdsLab is intentionally stack-agnostic. The goal is not to collect logos — it is to understand systems well enough to choose the right tool for the job.

LINUX CLOUDFLARE AAPANEL NGINX PHP NODE.JS DOCKER GIT DNS VPN FIREWALLS AUTOMATION HTML/CSS/JS SQL MONITORING

05 // TELEMETRY

SESSION UPTIME LIVE

00:00:00 TIME SINCE THIS PAGE INITIALISED

LAB CLOCK ZA

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OPERATING PRINCIPLE 001

“If I can build it, break it and rebuild it, I probably understand it.”

NERDSLAB // EST. 2026

Still building.
Probably always will be.

This is only the front door. The interesting stuff is behind it.

BUILD. BREAK. LEARN.

Not a company.A lab.