Your data. Your hardware. Your rules.

We design, deploy, and maintain self-hosted infrastructure — personal clouds, password vaults, media servers, local AI, mesh networks, and hardened devices. No subscriptions held over your head, no third party holding your keys.

Server tiers

Every deployment starts with the right foundation. Pick a tier by how much you value simplicity, anonymity, redundancy, or enterprise-grade availability.

Copper
  • Raspberry Pi, hand-sized computer
  • Umbrel — easiest on-ramp
  • Perfect for a first personal cloud
Silver
  • Start9 — configured for maximum anonymity
  • Onion services, self-sovereign defaults
Gold
  • TrueNAS — redundant data handling
  • RAID, snapshots, easy upgradability
Platinum
  • Proxmox — enterprise grade
  • High availability capable
  • Clustered multi-host ready

Form factors

Handheld Mini Laptop Slim Gaming Mini Cluster Slim Cluster Gaming Cluster Server Workstation Server Blade 2U Server Rack 4U Server Rack 24U Custom*

Deployable services

Battle-tested stacks deployed with Docker Compose behind an Nginx Proxy Manager reverse proxy — only two ports ever touch the internet. Each service is installed, configured, and handed over with training.

Nextcloud — your own cloud workspace

Files, users, groups, and sharing on your own hardware. Access from web, native apps, or mount it like a local drive over NFS.

  • File sharing & team folders
  • Calendar, contacts, mail, notes, tasks
  • Talk chat & calling, with a Coturn backend for reliable calls
  • Audio player, maps
  • Forms, tables, OnlyOffice document collaboration
  • Passwords, PhoneTrack, time tracker, UnifiedPush
KeePassXC — password vault

Open-source password manager with your encrypted vault file stored on your own hardware or Syncthing — never on someone else's servers. Autofill and safe sharing across your household or team via shared vault files.

Custom designed website

A website designed and built for you, hosted on your own server with everything preconfigured:

  • Custom design & page builder you can edit yourself
  • SEO setup & traffic statistics
  • Forms with locally saved responses & reliable email sending
  • Security hardening & large media support
Nginx Proxy Manager

The front door to everything: free auto-renewing SSL certificates, clean URLs for each service, and the smallest possible port footprint.

Jellyfin media streaming

Your movie, TV, and music library streamed to every screen in the house — no monthly fees, no data harvesting, hardware transcoding available on GPU builds.

Local AI — Ollama, ComfyUI & friends

Private AI that runs on your hardware, not someone's API meter:

  • Ollama for easy setup & model management
  • Open WebUI for teams & advanced users
  • llama.cpp for lean, efficient model serving
  • llama-swap to rotate models on limited VRAM
  • Stable Diffusion & ComfyUI image generation
  • Wan & MiniMax-H3 video generation
Forgejo — self-hosted Git

Your code, your server. Lightweight open-source git hosting with repos, issues, pull requests, and CI hooks.

Immich — photo backup

Open-source photo cloud that keeps every picture on your own storage — the drop-in escape from big-cloud photo services. Automatic phone backup, facial search, shared albums.

Syncthing & RustDesk

Syncthing: continuous encrypted file sync between devices with no cloud in the middle.
RustDesk: remote desktop you control — self-host the relay so support sessions never route through third parties.

N8N workflow automation

Automate the boring stuff — form submissions, notifications, backups, integrations — visually, running entirely on your own server.

Nostr relay

Run your own relay for the decentralized social network — censorship-resistant posting and follow graphs that you operate, for your community or business.

SearXNG private search

A self-hosted metasearch engine that answers queries without profiling you — your searches stay yours.

Game servers

Minecraft, Terraria, and more on your own box — moddable, always up, friends-only whitelists.

Hardware metrics & monitoring

Prometheus + Grafana + Node Exporter dashboards: see exactly what your servers are doing, catch bottlenecks before your users do.

*More services available on request.

Hardened computers

Bring your own hardware, let us find it, or order a Framework. Configured with Linux, privacy-first apps, and optional local AI — ready to use out of the box.

Operating systems

Linux, matched to you

  • Pop!_OS — easy-to-use Linux intro
  • Vanilla — security focused
  • Ubuntu — developer favorite
  • More flavors available
Preinstalled

Privacy & productivity suite

  • Brave browser, KeePassXC vault, RustDesk remote access
  • LibreOffice (Writer / Calc / Impress)
Creative & media

Studio on your machine

  • OBS streaming, DaVinci Resolve, GIMP, Inkscape
  • Darkroom, Audacity, OpenSCAD, VLC, ProjectM
Games

Gaming & emulation

  • PC gaming libraries, handheld-compatible setups
  • Minecraft server hosting
  • RetroArch emulation across classic console eras

Network & phones

OpenWRT routers

Networks that don't quit

  • Multi-WAN support with automatic failover
  • Phone tethering as backup uplink
  • WireGuard & OpenVPN servers
  • Docker & Nginx on the router itself
  • Local DNS records & BATMAN mesh
GrapheneOS phones

Phones, hardened

  • GrapheneOS on supported hardware (recent flagship devices)
  • No big-tech account services; sandboxed profiles
  • Apps only see the folders you allow
  • Curated open-source stack: 2FA, calendar/contacts sync, offline maps, remote access, Bitcoin wallet, open app stores
Internet · WiFi · Network

Full-site network deployments

From a single access point to whole-building coverage: we design, install, and configure the lot.

  • Managed WiFi with seamless roaming across the property
  • Wired backbones: switches, VLANs, structured cabling
  • Guest networks isolated from your LAN
  • Point-to-point links for outbuildings & remote sites
  • Firewall, QoS, and monitoring configured from day one
Uplinks & failover

Internet that stays up

  • Multi-WAN bonding across fiber, cable, cellular, and satellite
  • Automatic failover so one outage doesn't take you down
  • Site-to-site VPNs connecting offices, homes, and remote rigs
  • Bandwidth shaping for voice, video, and backups

Meshtastic — off-grid messaging

Text anywhere with radio mesh networks — no cell tower, no carrier, no outage. We deploy the nodes and the network.

Devices

Pagers & Blackberry-style handsets

Easy-to-use Meshtastic clients for everyday messaging.

Coverage

Outdoor & smart-home relays

Fixed repeaters that stitch your area into a mesh.

Bitcoin & self-custody

Nodes & wallets

Verify, don't trust

  • Bitcoin Core node deployment (Docker, tuned, RPC-secured)
  • Electrum wallet on Tails or Start9
  • Exodus on phone, paper wallets
Fedimint & Lightning

Community money

Fedimint federations and Lightning gateways: group escrow, shared custody, and cheap Bitcoin payments for your community, co-op, or group.

Mobile ops & rugged kits

Tails USB

Computer in your pocket

Rugged Tails USB: password vault, secure backup, Bitcoin wallet — boots any machine into an amnesic private OS.

Flipper Zero

Multi-tool kit

U2F security key, credit card backup, NFC link sharing, Bitcoin wallet functions.

Pelican cases

Rugged & shielded

Travel cases, backpacks, and Faraday-cage builds for gear that has to survive — and stay silent.

Command truck

Rolling server room

  • Meshtastic, WiFi, CB, AM/FM, cellular, and satellite antennas
  • Rack server with GPU for local AI
  • Nostr, image generation, LLM, media, cloud files, website, email — all offline-capable
  • Solar + battery + shore power; hardened tablet command interface
Smart home

Home Assistant

Lighting automation, local service connections — smart home that doesn't phone home.

How we work

Our model is simple: we build it, train you on it, and walk away — you own and run everything. Hosting client services is the exception, not the rule. Extra hours are always available when you need them as general IT support.

Build

Full install of hardware and services, configured, secured, and documented.

Train

Hands-on sessions and classes so you and your team can run the stack confidently — self-hosting, TrueNAS, Linux, privacy hygiene.

Walk away

Credentials, docs, and ownership handed over at the end of every job. No lock-in, no dependency on us.

IT support by the hour

Need an extra hand later? Backups, recovery, updates, troubleshooting, or new services — available as general IT support whenever you call.

Get in touch

Tell us what you want to run yourself — we'll quote the hardware and the setup, with optional support hours after handover.

Email

hello@l484.com

Remote or on-site

We deploy remotely, on-site, and worldwide

Response time

Quote back within a couple of days