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BreadLab · Spartanburg, SC · est. 2024

Hosting that
doesn't go stale.

Game servers, web apps, and weird little projects on real rack hardware in BreadLab — not resold cloud. One operator. Enterprise gear. Honest answers when something breaks.

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Currently live

Running right now
in BreadLab.

A mix of public toys, friend-only game worlds, and production web apps. Everything below is up as you read this.

What you get

Built to run things properly.

The same practices used to run production infrastructure for actual clients — applied to everything hosted here.

Real hardware, real performance

Bare-metal performance from rack-mounted enterprise hardware — not a shared VPS that throttles when it gets busy.

Enterprise-grade edge

FortiGate firewall with IPS and geo-filtering sits in front of every service. Not a consumer router with port forwarding.

Zero Trust ingress

Cloudflare tunnels handle inbound traffic. No ports open to the internet, SSL included, DDoS absorbed at the edge.

Game servers on demand

Minecraft, Vintage Story, Factorio, more — managed via AMP. Spin one up, check status from the browser, share with friends.

Self-healing stack

Docker with health checks and unless-stopped restarts. Most issues resolve themselves before anyone notices.

Snapshot backups

VM snapshots before changes, data volumes backed up on a schedule. Not a full DR solution — but your data isn't sitting unprotected.

Plans

Honest pricing for real hosting.

No 99.99% SLA claims. No "unlimited" bandwidth fine print. Just what's offered, at a fair price.

Toast

tier 01

For friends and experiments.

Free
  • 1 small web app or static site
  • Shared resources, best-effort uptime
  • Cloudflare tunnel + free SSL
  • *.breadtoasting.com subdomain
  • No guaranteed resources
Get started
Most popular

Sourdough

tier 02

For projects you actually care about.

$25 /mo
  • Dedicated VM — 4 vCPU / 8 GB RAM / 100 GB
  • 1 game server slot (AMP-managed)
  • Custom domain support (bring your own)
  • Snapshot backups included
  • Same-day response for issues
Get started

Pumpernickel

tier 03

For workloads with room to grow.

$55 /mo
  • Dedicated VM — 8 vCPU / 16 GB RAM / 250 GB
  • Multiple services + game server slots
  • Custom domain support
  • Snapshot backups + priority restore
  • Priority support — direct line
Get started

Not sure which plan fits? Send a message — we'll figure it out.

Inside the lab

The rack you're
renting time on.

BreadLab is one cabinet, professionally cabled, on commercial fiber with UPS-backed power. Below is the actual equipment list — not a "powered by enterprise hardware" stock photo.

Compute
Dell PowerEdge R630 · dual Xeon · 128 GB ECC
Hypervisor
VMware ESXi 7
Storage
NAS · SATA RAID-5 · weekly snapshots
Network
FortiGate 70F · FortiSwitch · segregated VLANs
Edge
Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels · no public IPs on services
Power
APC SmartUPS · ~20 min runtime · graceful auto-shutdown
Uplink
1 Gbps symmetric commercial fiber · static IP
breadlab-01 · 12U
temp 21°C · 47W
U12 FortiGate 70F — edge firewall · IPS · geo-filter
U11 FortiSwitch — core switch
U09 Dell R630 · esxi-01 — dual Xeon · 128GB · ESXi 7
U05 NAS — SATA RAID-5
U02 APC SmartUPS 1500 — ~20 min runtime · NUT
U01 PDU · metered — 47W draw current

Running on

Who's behind this

A professional setup,
personally operated.

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.

Questions

Honest answers.

Get in touch

Got something in mind?

Describe what you need — a game server, a web app, or something else entirely. Reply within a day, usually faster.

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