Home-lab cloud, done the old-skool way.
Private storage, media, mail and messaging for family and close circles. Built on Synology, DNSSEC and too many late-night experiments.
About Scott
ScotNet is what happens when a lifelong tech obsession refuses to die. I was the sort of kid who wanted to know how systems actually worked, not just how to click through them. That turned into early web hosting, self-run mail, old-school experimentation, and the kind of curiosity that had me feeding spare cycles into SETI@home and learning by breaking things, fixing them, and making them better.
These days it is a private infrastructure stack built for family, friends, and the services I rely on myself: storage, mail, DNS, monitoring, filtered resolvers, backups, weather feeds, and the odd privacy-first side project. It runs on hardware I own, across networks I control, with as little dependence as possible on vendors, lock-in, or somebody else changing the rules overnight.
I am not chasing hype. I want systems that are calm, repairable, and built to last. No trackers, no nonsense, no surveillance dressed up as convenience. If ScotNet feels quiet, solid, and slightly over-engineered, that is because it is meant to keep working long after trendier setups have fallen apart.
Secure DNS • dns.scott.ovh
DNS over TLS (DoT) and DNS over HTTPS (DoH) with ad-blocking, backed by DNSSEC.
Featured
Security and small privacy-first projects that actually do something useful.
ScotNet’s live blocklist. Stops noisy senders before they hit mail and forms.
A small pet return page. No accounts, no ads, no trackers. Print your own tag (QR and/or NFC) and link it to a public page so a finder can contact you.
Services
Entry points into the ScotNet stack, with live health folded straight into the cards.
Contact
If you're curious about building something similar – self-hosted services, private DNS, or resilient family storage – this inbox is running on the same stack.
Local Weather
Live snapshot from my personal weather station cache.
Stack highlights
- Synology-backed storage with layered backups.
- DNSSEC-signed zones with DANE for mail security.
- dns.scott.ovh providing DoT/DoH with ad-blocking.
- Reverse proxies, internal TLS and failover routing.
- Locally-run services, externally accessible when needed.