Who am I?
Beginner IT enthusiast from the Netherlands • Homelab builder • Hobby web developer
I'm Ruben, a beginner IT enthusiast from the Netherlands. IT is my hobby and something I want to turn into a career.
I spend my free time on everything related to servers, networking, and self-hosted infrastructure.
At home I run my own Proxmox VE setup with several VMs and containers. I learn best by doing — breaking things, figuring out why, and building them back better.
I also enjoy building websites as a hobby — nothing professional, just for fun. In addition, I want to start renting out Minecraft servers in the future, and I want to host those servers on my own hardware.
"Learn by doing — break things, understand the root cause, and build it back stronger."
Running and managing virtual machines, containers, and self-hosted services.
Tailscale mesh VPN, VLAN segmentation, firewall rules, and DNS routing.
Minecraft server administration, RCON, Gotify notifications, and rental setup.
Writing custom PHP, HTML, and CSS websites from scratch without heavy frameworks.