About

pr1v8 is one person’s notes on self-hosting and infrastructure: a home server, a small VPS at the edge, a few Tor relays, and the glue between them. Each post explains one thing end to end so that someone with a similar setup can repeat it.

What you will not find here: hostnames, addresses, account identifiers, or anything else that belongs to a specific installation. Examples use documentation ranges and placeholder names. Where a step depends on a secret, the post says what the secret is for and how to make one, never what it is.

The author is Gabriel Girouard, who works in security operations in Canada. The professional side lives at bungee.systems. The posts here are written together with an AI assistant and then edited by hand; opinions and mistakes are the author’s.