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Building My Own Security Gateway: Why I Put a Server Between Me and the Internet

ONE YEAR OF RUNNING MY OWN NETWORK · UPDATED 8 OCTOBER 2026 The server stayed. The setup evolved. About a year ago, I turned an old gaming PC into my own home-network gateway. The first version used Ubuntu, dnsmasq, nftables, and a WireGuard tunnel to Proton VPN. Since then, Pi-hole has become part of the […]

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