01 · INFRA
Sovereign Metal
Self-hosted servers, ~30 domains, five-nines uptime — the whole estate on infrastructure controlled end to end.
John Elia — Architect · Marine · Builder
Own your ground. Hold your standard. Build your own world.
The personal seat of a sovereign technology operation — hand-built infrastructure, self-hosted from the ground up, run with a Marine's discipline and a craftsman's precision.
You don't rent your life from anyone. You own your stack — your data, your identity, your uptime.
— The operating principle
Not a homelab — an estate. Some thirty domains, mail, identity, cloud, and applications, all self-hosted and self-owned. What most people rent from five vendors, this runs on its own ground.
Self-hosted servers, ~30 domains, five-nines uptime — the whole estate on infrastructure controlled end to end.
A full mail platform — Postfix, Dovecot, DKIM — no third party reading the post.
Single sign-on and directory with the master key held in-house. Your login, your rules.
Command centers, dashboards, and bespoke tools — built to standard, shipped and verified.
Every visit is logged to the estate's own analytics — no trackers borrowed from anyone else.
A resident intelligence, wired into the house. Ask about the stack, the work, or the man who built it.