Daniel Jones

From Game Servers to Tuxxin

I'm Daniel Jones. I founded Tuxxin in 2011, and today it serves as the outsourced IT department for mid-size businesses: websites and portals, servers and cloud, email, phones and DNS, backups and cybersecurity.

I have run Linux since the late 1990s (Mandrake and Red Hat first) and production servers since the early 2000s, starting with Half-Life and Counter-Strike game servers. At 19 I sold a car to fund my first company, NationVoice (2003-2010), a nationwide Ventrilo voice-server network.

Across two contracts with Highwinds CDN, I built the QA sandbox for its virtualization platform, then ran the vendor meetings and planned the production hardware through deployment.

In 2014 I co-founded Custom Cornhole Boards Inc., an Orlando manufacturer that grew to more than 20,000 square feet of warehouse space and over 40 employees before closing at the end of 2025.

I build most of Tuxxin's own products, from the servers up to the browser, and my security research runs on two of them. worldip.io maps the ownership, ASN, geolocation and reverse DNS of the entire IPv4 space. whack.sh loads a link through datacenter, residential and mobile networks at once and compares the results to expose sites that cloak malicious behavior from automated scanners, then reports confirmed threats to URLhaus, MalwareBazaar and AlienVault OTX. This work includes responsible-disclosure investigations reported directly to the affected vendors.

The full history is on LinkedIn.