Hamilton Tech Lab · Hands-on learning
Cybersecurity Lab
Practical security thinking, safe service exposure and ongoing cybersecurity study.
Security through practice
This lab is about learning defensive security and responsibly protecting a self-hosted environment. Cybersecurity topics are educational and shouldn't be mistaken for a deployed enterprise security program.
Project: publishing a site safely
HamiltonTechLab.com uses Nginx behind Cloudflare Tunnel. The public route targets only the website service, while Proxmox management and private applications remain unpublished.
VisitorPublic HTTPS
→CloudflareOutbound tunnel
→NginxPublic website only
Security study topics
- Least privilege and authentication controls
- Network segmentation and firewall concepts
- Update strategy, backups, change tracking and logs
- Threat modeling a personal website without exposing internal network details
Next experiments
Create a redacted hardening checklist and document a service recovery drill using a non-production environment.