Ivan Salloum.

Linux, servers & security — taught clearly.

Available for work

hello@ivansalloum.com ivansalloum.com Germany ↔ Rabah, Syria

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I teach Linux servers, self-hosting & security — and build fast, secure websites for clients through my studio. LPIC-1 and CCNA certified, currently studying Cybersecurity at BHT Berlin. I live in the terminal: hardening servers, self-hosting everything, and writing guides that make it teachable.

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Webccino — web studio

Fast, secure, properly-coded websites with a fixed price and a fixed timeline. No WordPress, no cookie banners, no bloat.

Live · taking on clients

Educcino — tutoring

A tutoring academy in Dresden providing Nachhilfe for students supported through the BuT (Bildung und Teilhabe) programme.

In progress

hostccino — hosting

WordPress hosting done differently — proper hosting for the people who genuinely need WordPress, from the ground up.

Planned

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ivansalloum.com — guides & written courses

40+ published articles on servers, security, networking and self-hosting. Includes the 16-guide Linux Server Security collection and an authoritative-DNS course with CoreDNS. The site practises what it preaches: self-hosted, cookie-free, no tracking.

2023 — now

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LPIC-1 Linux Professional Institute

CCNA Cisco

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Cybersecurity

BHT — Berliner Hochschule für Technik

since 04/2025

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Ubuntu Server LTSHetzner Cloud UFW / nftablesfail2ban OpenSSH (hardened)auditd Docker + ComposeCaddy BeszelCoreDNS Astro + KeystaticWordPress (since 2018)

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Diving deep into Java with the goal of learning Spring; building a malware detection tool for Linux; moving nearly all self-hosted projects onto Docker.