Self hosted services in orbit

This node serves squartle.com, runs its own DNS on BIND9, and terminates TLS with an A+ score. Built on Debian, shaped to stay lean, auditable, and under control.

Public services online Debian · Apache 2.4 · Certbot Mail system: planned

TLS

A+ (SSL Labs)

TLS 1.2 and 1.3 only

DNS

ns1 · ns2.squartle.com

Authoritative BIND9 on tex

Host

104.200.16.179

Linode VPS · ufw locked

[tex@squartle]$ dig tex.squartle.com +short

104.200.16.179

[tex@squartle]$ curl -I https://squartle.com

HTTP/1.1 200 OK · HSTS · TLS 1.3

Services

Web HTTPS for squartle.com, www, tex
online
DNS Authoritative, no recursion
locked
Mail MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC to follow
planned
API / Maze engine Reserved capacity
reserved

This host is kept minimal on purpose. Only services that belong here are listening. Everything else waits behind firewalls, SSH keys, and common sense.

DNS map

squartle.com. IN A 104.200.16.179

www.squartle.com. IN A 104.200.16.179

tex.squartle.com. IN A 104.200.16.179

squartle.com. IN NS ns1.squartle.com.

squartle.com. IN NS ns2.squartle.com.

DNS served from this box with BIND9. No public recursion, no loose transfers.