1337 Systems repair and support
No-labour-cost diagnostics, repairs, upgrades and practical help for families and small organisations.
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No-labour-cost diagnostics, repairs, upgrades and practical help for families and small organisations.
VMs, LXCs, migrations, backups, storage faults and platform upgrades.
Private routed access plus controlled service publishing through Newt.
Infrastructure monitoring, endpoint security, alerting and incident investigation.
STUN, full-cone testing, rotating reply addresses and firewall rule ordering.
Private collaboration, Synapse federation and shared TURN infrastructure.
Private camera access, reverse-proxy constraints and direct VPN access.
Multi-host container lifecycle, Hawser management, storage faults, AshleyMine and ARM64 lab deployment.
Desktop graphics/audio debugging, cross-distro Linux work and rooted mobile experimentation.
Tailscale exit-node routing with watchdog and failure recovery.
Per-user DNS and application policy without breaking the administrator account.
Realistic configuration-management work for repeatable Linux administration.
Self-hosted media streaming — a free, open-source alternative to Plex with no telemetry or premium-locked features.
Enterprise-grade infrastructure monitoring with agents, alerting, SNMP and database-backed trend analysis.
Custodian data-centre graphing for temperatures, power draw, servers and cooling systems.
Self-hosted Google Photos replacement with AI search, facial recognition and automatic mobile backup.
Local-first home automation — controlling smart devices without cloud dependency or vendor lock-in.
Comparing direct VPN traffic with routed exit-node designs under restrictive application-control policy.
Network-wide ad blocking, tracker filtering and per-client DNS policy for the whole household.
Private version control for infrastructure code, Ansible playbooks and documentation.
Enterprise vulnerability scanning and security monitoring, deployed commercially at ITHQ.
AI-powered endpoint detection and response, deployed across client systems at ITHQ.
Desktop virtualisation for testing, isolated environments and lab experiments.
Windows Server domain services, group policy and centralised authentication.
Cloud identity, email, productivity and collaboration administration.
Enterprise next-generation firewalls, DPI and application-layer VPN policy.
Enterprise routing, switching and structured cabling from live data-centre work.
Open-source security monitoring, endpoint detection and compliance.
Self-hosted music streaming with Subsonic-compatible mobile apps.
Self-hosted uptime monitoring with status pages and notifications.
Decentralised, encrypted peer-to-peer file synchronisation.
Self-hosted metasearch engine — private, untracked web search.
Web-based Docker container management across multiple hosts.
Self-hosted AI chat interface running language models locally.
Containerised browser isolation and streaming desktops.
Self-hosted Minecraft servers for family and friends.
PHP/MySQL web application stack administration.
VLANs, NAT, DNS, Snort, pfBlockerNG, ntopng and VPN at the network edge.
WireGuard-based mesh VPN connecting every device securely.
Containers, Compose stacks and remote Docker hosts through Dockhand and Hawser.
Encrypted remote access, routed networks and travel-router connectivity.
Certificate-based remote access and compatibility testing across network appliances.
Portable routing, guest Wi-Fi and VPN access back to selected home services.
Log-driven detection and bouncers for blocking repeated abusive behaviour.
Self-hosted messaging, federation, identity and real-time communications.
STUN and TURN for reliable voice and video across NAT and restrictive networks.
Browser-based documents, spreadsheets and presentations integrated with private storage.
LibreOffice-based browser editing compared with ONLYOFFICE for Nextcloud.
A private, metadata-rich catalogue for a legally owned retro-game collection.
A contained download client with explicit storage, permissions and routing.
HTTPS reverse proxying, certificate management and controlled service publishing.
Label-scoped Docker image updates with notifications and rollback awareness.
Virtual routing, switching and firewall labs for safe testing and troubleshooting.
Host, flow, protocol and bandwidth visibility at the network edge.
Signature-based network detection, alert review and carefully tuned blocking.
DNS block lists, IP reputation feeds and managed firewall aliases.
PBX administration, SIP, extensions, authentication, NAT and remote clients.
The storage foundation behind shares, backups, media and application data.
Active Directory, DNS, Group Policy and mixed-environment administration.
Centralised logon and network authentication without publishing an uncertain product name.
Cloud identity, user authentication, Wi-Fi access, LDAP and RADIUS workflows from ITHQ.
Electron, Python, Rust, PHP, JavaScript, Java and CSS used around the lab.
Real Docker and Proxmox views across HomeLab, TrueNAS, AshleyMine, multiple Docker VMs, 28 LXC containers and 10 KVM virtual machines.
PXE configuration, image delivery and controlled operating-system deployment in the lab.
Fault diagnosis, secure reimaging, component replacement and reliable system validation.
A full-size arcade build combining Raspberry Pi, Linux, controller mapping, display and audio.
These services appeared in the supplied lab dashboard evidence. They are recorded here without overstating them as full case studies; each can be expanded later when configuration notes or dedicated screenshots are available.
Self-hosted overlay-network controller shown through the ztncui Key Networks interface.
Tenable Nessus Essentials used for authorised vulnerability-assessment practice.
Browser-based remote-access gateway captured in the service catalogue.
Private password-management service shown in the lab dashboard.
Media-service evaluation alongside the main Jellyfin deployment.
Home television and tuner-management service captured in the lab.
Camera-monitoring service shown alongside the CCTV stack.
Docker-management interface evaluated across multiple hosts.
Federated social-platform experiment visible in the service dashboard.
Central application launcher used to organise lab services.
