Dylan Banta

DevOps · Platform · Infrastructure

I build the platform, then I keep it running.

I'm Dylan Banta, an IT Assistant at West Muskingum Local Schools, where I built and run WM.Tools, our tech department's internal platform. On my own time I run a five-year homelab of ~90 services and a cloud provisioning pipeline for my web business.

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homelab / request path
Edge
Cloudflare
proxied DNS · edge TLS
Proxy
nginx VM
~130 vhosts · 91 certs · TCP streams
Host
XCP-ng hypervisor
1 host · 6 VMs · 128 GB RAM
Apps
Docker Compose
~90 services · GPU passthrough VM
Storage
NAS VM
Samba + NFS on hardware RAID
How it's wired
~5 yrs
running my own homelab
~90
self-hosted services
~130
vhosts across 4 domains
21
internal tools in production at work
11+
sites launched by my provisioning platform

Case studies

The work I'd walk you through in an interview

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01 Jan 2026 – present

WM.Tools

The internal platform I built for our K-12 district's IT department

A permission-aware portal that brings Google Workspace admin, Chromebook fleet tracking, device lending, printing and staff compliance into one place, plus the automation, print and secrets platform it runs on.

Laravel 12 PHP 8.3-FPM MariaDB Docker Compose
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02 Jul 2026 – present

dev-llc

Client VPS provisioning and deployment for Binary Prosperity LLC

An internal tool that takes a new client from domain purchased to live on a dedicated cloud VPS: Vultr instance, per-client SSH key, Cloudflare DNS and Origin CA TLS, and image-based deploys through GHCR. Retries never duplicate cloud resources.

Laravel 13 Vultr API Cloudflare API GHCR
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03 ~2021 – present

The Homelab Platform

One hypervisor, six VMs, four domains and about 90 services, run by me

The platform under everything else on this site: an XCP-ng host with a dedicated reverse-proxy VM, a self-built NAS and a GPU VM, serving ~130 virtual hosts across four domains.

XCP-ng Xen Orchestra nginx Let's Encrypt
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dlt

Self-service site provisioning, built at home, then rebuilt for production

GPU / AI host

Shared GPUs for local AI, voice and media on one homelab VM

Stories

Outages, wrong turns and how I got here

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Incidents & growth

Five blameless mini-postmortems, from a 53,000-call automation flood that took down a production portal to a vault corrupted by a power outage.

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Things that didn't work

A months-long AI generation project that failed, a context tool the industry built better, and a NAS platform I tried and walked away from.

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Luterra

A fantasy world I've been building for years, and the software I've written to hold it: a notes and timeline app with an API and MCP gateway, a semantic wiki, a conlang engine and world-map tools.

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How I got here

An interactive timeline of how my infrastructure, and my approach to it, changed between my first IT jobs and today.

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Projects

Things I've built because I wanted them to exist

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Bujo Designer

live

A drag-and-drop page designer for A5 bullet journals, with print and PDF export.

Laravel 12 JavaScript AGPL-3.0
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fin + fin.db

active

A personal finance platform with a multi-container backend and an Android companion app.

Laravel 13 MariaDB Redis Playwright Android

pzmm

deprecated

A web control panel for a Project Zomboid dedicated server running in its own container.

Laravel 13 Docker

Working on now

Working on now

  • Teardown for dev-llc

    Automated deprovisioning with a manual approval gate, so test sites can be created and removed without a trace.

  • Publishing sanitized repos

    Secret-scanning full git histories, then publishing the template, tools and infrastructure configs.

  • GPU host write-up

    A full case study on the GPU passthrough VM and the AI services that share it.