One homepage for everything that is Chaz.NYC.
This is the cleaner, modern front door to your existing site: your contact points, your travel and guest-room info, your projects and organizations, your favourite tools and fun links, and the private-network notice that makes clear these are your personal systems and files.
Personal portal. Private network. Living homepage.
Chaz.NYC links together contact info, projects, organizations, guest resources, tools, media, and a private multi-service home network including ChazTel.
Chaz.NYC is part personal homepage, part operations dashboard, part old-school web portal.
The live site today is a compact directory of your online world: ways to contact you, your whereabouts page, your MC4 and journal history, your Manhattan guest room, your media and telecom projects, the organizations you are involved with, and the tools and oddities you keep around because they are useful or simply fun.
Rooted in New York, built around community, systems, and curiosity.
This rewrite keeps the spirit of the original homepage but makes it legible and inviting: New York City life, personal infrastructure, clubs and communities, travel logistics, tools, media, and the preserved feel of a handmade internet home base.
The things running behind the homepage.
The original site highlights media services, telecom, self-hosting, and networked tools. This section turns those scattered links into a real overview while keeping each destination available.
ChazTel & private services
Chaz.NYC describes itself as a private network of servers and systems with website hosting, webmail, international telephone services, and a broad collection of personal services. ChazTel deserves to be treated as a headline project, not buried in a list.
Media stack
Plex, Sonarr, Lidarr, and Prowlarr are all on the current site. In the rewrite, they read as part of a coherent self-hosted media stack rather than unrelated bookmarks.
Privacy & modern networking
The current homepage also points to Veilid, Tor, and Private Internet Access. Those links suggest a clear interest in privacy, networking, and independent infrastructure, so this design makes that theme visible instead of accidental.
Guest room & being in town
The guest room is one of the strongest, most useful parts of the current ecosystem. It offers an Upper East Side room for friends and visitors, with booking instructions that tie directly into Where’s Chaz and the guest calendar.
All the major pieces of the current homepage, reorganized.
The live site is fundamentally a curated directory. This version preserves that by grouping the links into clearer categories while keeping the original breadth: personal pages, organizations, tools, fun, and media.
About Me Personal
Get in touch by e-mail and other channels
At-a-glance schedule and travel/status page
Webmail / messaging entry point
Background and information about Chaz.NYC
External journal / writing archive
Manhattan guest room for friends and visitors
Projects Systems
Organizations Community
Tools Useful stuff
Fun Bookmarks
Where’s Chaz?
Your schedule page explains that real-time tracking is no longer public, but people can still use the at-a-glance grid and the detailed Google Calendar to understand your travel and availability.
Upper East Side guest room
The guest-room page offers a private room on the Upper East Side with booking instructions, transit notes, house rules, and direct contact details. It is clearly one of the most practical and human parts of the whole site.
Direct ways to reach you
The contact page snippet on the live site points people to e-mail and Signal, and the site repeatedly ties contact into ChazTel and other personal systems. This rewrite gives that access a more visible place.
This is not just a website. It is the front end to a private computing facility.
The live homepage explicitly states that Chaz.NYC is a private network of servers and systems featuring more than 100TB of redundant storage, website hosting, webmail, international telephone services, and many personal files and services. Access is by invitation only, use may be audited, and attempts to subvert security may result in blocking and reporting to AbuseIPDB. This warning matters, and it should stay visible.
Handmade internet spirit, cleaner presentation.
This static version keeps the character of your original homepage — link-heavy, personal, eclectic, and useful — while making it easier for visitors to understand what Chaz.NYC actually contains. Upload it as a plain index.html file and it will work on basic static hosting.