I set up and fix home servers, self-hosted apps and small-office networks: firewalls, VLANs, secure remote access, backups and monitoring. You get a fixed quote, backups before I change anything, and plain-English docs when I'm done.
Every job starts with a short call and a written plan. Prices below are starting points. You get an exact quote before any work begins.
One specific problem: a container that won't start, a broken reverse proxy, Plex not transcoding on the GPU, a permissions mess.
Unraid, TrueNAS or plain Docker, set up the way you'd want it after a year of learning the hard way.
Reach your apps from anywhere without opening ports on your router.
Split IoT, guests, servers and your own devices so one bad smart plug can't reach your NAS.
Find out a backup failed or a disk is dying before you lose anything.
Minecraft and other game servers for your friends or community, run from a web panel.
Two hours on-site and a short written report: what's at risk, what to fix first, and what it would cost.
One person who knows your setup, keeps it healthy and picks up when something breaks.
A local AI assistant that runs on your own hardware, for offices that can't send client data to the cloud.
Hourly work outside a package is $45/hour remote and $65/hour on-site, billed in 30-minute steps. On marketplaces like Upwork and Fiverr, the price listed there applies.
I run my home network like a small production environment. These write-ups include the numbers and the parts that went wrong.
Moved a messy, flat home network to 12 planned segments, with every firewall rule generated from one readable file. A step-by-step runbook gave every phase a way back.
For you: the same plan-first, rollback-ready approach for your network or office.
Read the full case study →Turns millions of log lines a day into a few plain-English incidents with a proposed fix. Nothing changes until I click Approve, and no data leaves the house.
For you: monitoring that tells you what broke and why, and local AI that keeps your data in-house.
Read the full case study →Game servers run from a web panel in their own isolated network segment. I built and packaged a custom Minecraft modpack, and patched the Unraid dashboard so it shows each game server by name.
For you: a server your friends or community can join, set up so it can't put your home network at risk.
You tell me what you have and what you want. If you don't need me, I'll say so.
What I'll change, in what order, what it costs, and how we undo it if something goes wrong.
Configs are saved before anything changes. You can watch along or check in at milestones.
A plain-English doc of your setup and passwords handed back to you. Anything I set up that breaks in the first week, I fix free.
For remote jobs, a screen-share or a temporary remote session that you start and can end at any time. I never ask for your main passwords in chat. When the job is done, any access I had is removed, and the handover doc lists everything I changed.
Before I change anything, I save the existing configuration and write down how to undo each step. If something I set up breaks within 7 days, I fix it at no charge.
Through Upwork or Fiverr if you found me there. For direct jobs, small fixes are paid when done. Bigger projects are 50% to start and 50% on handover. Managed care is billed monthly with no long contract.
Yes, that's what the free call is for. Tell me what's annoying you or what you're worried about losing. I'll suggest the smallest thing that fixes it, even if that's something you can do yourself.
Yes, for writing scripts and documentation faster. I review, test and take responsibility for everything I deliver, and none of your data goes to an AI service without your OK.
No. I'll recommend what to buy and why, and you buy it directly, so there's no markup and the warranty is yours.
A sentence or two is enough: your hardware, what's broken or what you want to set up. I reply within one business day.