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bayindirhlast Saturday at 10:56 PM2 repliesview on HN

However, it'll also bring all the bots and "wild west" of the internet to your house when you run your web server from home, and for anyone who has a couple of spare dollars, it's a much wiser choice to run a small VPS elsewhere to weather the storm.


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bblbyesterday at 2:59 AM

[Internet facing router with up to date firmware] --> HTTPS --> [separate VLAN DMZ] --> [my hardcore IndieWeb VM/k8s/bare-metal whatever] --> [x No outbound access / paranoid local firewall inside the VM x]

[My home computer] --> SSH --> [my hardcore IndieWeb local cloud]

That's about it. Safe enough.

neogodlesslast Saturday at 11:04 PM

shrug

In 25 years of hosting a dozen domain names on a server on my home connection, this problem has not surfaced for me.

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