Sharing notes from my ongoing learning journey — what I build, break and understand along the way.
From DNS Lookup to Rendering: The Journey of a Web Request We do this countless times every day: type an address into a browser, hit Enter, and the page appears in seconds.But in that short moment, a lot happens behind…
ModSecurity: How This Powerful WAF Protects Your Website from Modern Attacks When I first installed ModSecurity, I honestly didn’t know how functional it would be.It’s called a “Web Application Firewall” (WAF), but this is something entirely different from a classic…
How to Install Wazuh on a Hetzner Server and Connect a WordPress Agent Today I’ll walk you through, step by step, how I installed Wazuh on a server rented from Hetzner and how I added a Wazuh Agent to another…
Complete OpenVPN Deployment on Oracle Cloud Free Tier — From Network Setup to Secure Connection As an IT student, I’m always looking for hands-on projects to improve my skills in system administration, network security, and cloud infrastructure. This project was…
AWS Serverless Guide – From Zero to Advanced To support my journey as a system administrator and to lay solid foundations in the security field, I’ve gathered my notes from an AWS Lambda training I completed. I wanted this write-up…
The Complete Guide to AWS Security: IAM, Encryption, and Threat Protection Tools I’m continuing my AWS learning journey. In this post, I’ll cover security topics on AWS in detail — from IAM and access control to encryption and threat detection…
My AWS Cloud Operations Learning Journey (Cost, Monitoring, and More) I’ve recently started learning AWS. I’m sharing these notes to help myself remember what I’ve learned and also to make it easier for others to follow along. I’ve summarized each…
What I Learned About AWS Databases (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB) After 2 Days of Deep Diving This guide was created after completing my AWS database training and is meant to help others (and myself) consolidate key concepts — from the basics…
The Complete Guide to AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and Networking I want to summarize everything I’ve learned about Networking in Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the form of notes, but in a detailed and simple way. This post is…
What Is a Subnet? Full Explanation of Subnetting, CIDR, and Real-World Use Cases While going through my learning journey in networking, I came across the term subnet quite frequently. At first, it was a bit abstract to me, but the…