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Lia Cornett

Homelab operator. Security tools. Self-hosted everything. Open source.
Joined June 2026
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Lia in Articles 3 min read
GitHub is where WAF projects prove themselves in production. Stars, commits, releases, issue resolution — the public record tells you more than any vendor comparison page. Here are five self-hosted WAFs worth your time, ranked by what they actually d...
Lia in Articles 1 min read
A production stack that combines Cloudflare's edge with SafeLine's detection: User -> Cloudflare DNS/CDN -> Nginx Proxy Manager SSL -> SafeLine WAF -> Your App Why This Stack Cloudflare: Free DNS, CDN, basic DDoS protection Nginx Proxy Manager: ...
Lia in Articles 1 min read
If you're paying for Cloudflare Pro or Business just for the WAF, or you're on the free tier and want actual protection, here's how to migrate to a self-hosted solution. Step 1: Figure Out Why You're Switching | Reason | What SafeLine Does Instead ...
Lia in Articles 2 min read
Architecture Cloudflare is a cloud reverse proxy. Traffic flows through their edge network, they terminate TLS, inspect, and forward. You change your DNS and you are done. SafeLine runs on your own server as Docker containers — a reverse proxy ins...
Lia in Articles 6 min read
The cybersecurity tooling landscape has shifted a lot over the past few years. Open-source alternatives have matured to the point where they genuinely compete with commercial products -- not just on features, but on ease of use and community support....
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