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Proxmox & GNS3 Homelab Implementation Plan
Build and operations plan for a two-node Proxmox VE cluster with GNS3 network simulation and a Windows-based security workstation.
Aegis Managed VPS — building in the open
A Linux-first, automation-first managed VPS service, in design. Coming soon — the trials and errors of building it will be documented and published here via Fieldnote as the work happens.
LabNet Internal Assessment - UbuntuServ
An authorized internal assessment of UbuntuServ (10.x.x.3) on the isolated LabNet segment, to determine whether the host could be compromised from an attacker already positioned on the internal network.
Authenticated Security Assessment - WinServ
An assumed-breach assessment of WinServ, a Windows Server 2025 file server on LabNet. The department-share RBAC held — but exposed WinRM plus a valid admin credential gave full remote control of the server. 1 Critical, 2 Medium findings.
Active Directory Domain Services
Building a minimal AD DS lab in VirtualBox: a static-IP Windows Server promoted to domain controller for adlab.com, DNS on the DC, and clients joined to the domain — with the DNS and time-sync warnings left open for follow-up.
Going live via Cloudflare Tunnel
Every command, manual step, and lesson from taking spencerlab.tech live over HTTPS — including the discovery that the ISP made port-forwarding physically impossible, and the tunnel that solved it.