This post marks the start of my new, self-managed IT environment!

What you see here is but the public ‘tip of the iceberg’. Merely an amateurs attempt at making a cool looking page using WordPress. What you don’t see in the background are the new servers, email, file hosting and more that is in the works.

The first goal of this project is to migrate from my current configuration to one that is entirely managed by myself or at least transparent.

Why would I do this? Well, what if a hacker obtained the password to my current email? What would that person be able to see and do? When I started working at a hosting company, I realized just how dependent I am on services over which I have very little control, and just how easy it would be to hijack my accounts or to gain access to the data within them just by using a little bit social engineering or legal pressure. I realized just how vulnerable I am.

“I realized just how vulnerable I am.” -Felix 2017

So, in a continuing effort to learn everything there is to know about IT, and to have 100% supervision over “my stuff”, I decided to start managing my own domains and everything connected to them. Wherever I am not hosting it myself I either have a great deal of supervision, or a great deal of confidence that the service provider is unable to screw me over even if they tried to (Let alone accidentally).