Ivan Salloum.

Understand it, build it, write it down.

Available for work

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

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I take things apart to understand how they actually work, then build with what I learn. Servers and self-hosting, security, the ccino ventures, and fast, secure websites for clients. LPIC-1 and CCNA certified, currently studying Cybersecurity at BHT Berlin. I live in the terminal: hardening servers, self-hosting everything, and writing the guides I wanted when I started.

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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

Pressccino · open source

A WordPress-only, self-healing hosting control panel. Open source, and the software Hostccino will run on.

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

37 published articles on servers, security, networking and self-hosting. Includes the 17-guide Linux Server Security collection and an authoritative-DNS course with CoreDNS. The site practises what it preaches: cookie-free, no tracking, no third-party calls.

2023 – now

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LPIC-1 Linux Professional Institute

CCNA Cisco

Linux Essentials Linux Professional Institute

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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 + ComposeNGINX / Apache / Caddy BeszelCoreDNS Astro + KeystaticWordPress (since 2018)

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Building Pressccino, a self-healing WordPress hosting panel; studying Cybersecurity at BHT Berlin; exploring Prometheus, with the PCA in mind.