Home-lab cloud, done the old-skool way.
Private cloud, mail, messaging, secure DNS, monitoring and local weather for family, friends and the services I actually use. Built across my own servers and networks with DNSSEC, DANE, ScotNet Monitor, ScotNet Mesh, ScotNet DNSBL, Gizmo — 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.
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These days ScotNet is one connected self-hosted project built for family, friends, and the services I rely on myself: private cloud storage, mail and messaging, authoritative and encrypted DNS, DNSBL filtering, live service monitoring, mesh networking, layered backups, Gizmo, and live Eyemouth weather with its own history. It runs across systems and networks I control, with as little dependence as possible on 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.
If you're curious about building something similar — private cloud services, secure DNS, mail, monitoring, mesh networking or resilient family storage — this inbox runs on the same ScotNet infrastructure.
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Local Weather EYEMOUTH
Current conditions rendered from a private server cache.
Stack highlights
- Private storage and layered backups across self-managed systems.
- DNSSEC-signed authoritative DNS with DANE and DMARC protecting mail.
- Encrypted DoT/DoH resolution plus ScotNet DNSBL filtering and abuse intelligence.
- ScotNet Monitor watches service health while ScotNet Mesh links trusted systems.
- Live Eyemouth station weather, one-year history, reverse proxies, internal TLS and failover routing.