Hosting that
doesn't go stale.

I'm Garrett — a network security and managed services professional based in Spartanburg, SC. Day-to-day that means managing enterprise firewalls, designing network infrastructure, keeping backups healthy, and administering Windows and Linux servers for real clients. BreadLab is an extension of that work, not a departure from it.

The lab runs off real rack hardware behind a FortiGate firewall, with Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels handling inbound traffic so nothing is exposed directly to the internet. Every service runs in Docker with health checks and automatic restart policies. I treat this the same way I treat production infrastructure at work — because sloppy habits don't stay contained to one context.

I'm currently working toward my Fortinet NSE4 certification. I don't claim enterprise-tier SLAs on a homelab — that would be dishonest. What I can say is that when something breaks, I know what to do about it, and I'll give you a real explanation instead of a "we're investigating an issue" email.