Securing Our Stack with CrowdSec and Nginx Proxy Manager

Today, we’ve taken a significant step forward in securing our web infrastructure by implementing CrowdSec, an open-source, collaborative Intrusion Prevention System (IPS). We integrated it tightly with our existing Docker stack to actively monitor and block malicious traffic before it ever reaches our applications. Here’s an overview of our updated architecture and how the pieces fit together. Our Website Architecture Our website is built using Hugo, a blazing-fast static site generator. To optimize performance and security, we’ve structured our stack using docker-compose into several distinct layers: ...

February 19, 2026 · 3 min · Caleb