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How I built this website on a Raspberry Pi

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Re: How I built this website on a Raspberry Pi

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Post by rainonmoon »

This is a wonderful project and an even more wonderful write-up, I wish I came across more in this tone! I'll just add to anyone following in these footsteps: be careful what type of website you host on your Pi. Self-hosting is great, but if you expose services on your home network to the internet, expect people to try to hack you. What type of site you host will either make this very hard or very easy. The difference between compromising a VPS and compromising your home web server is now they have access to your actual LAN. Cloudflare has a pretty good WAF on the free tier, look at it as another learning opportunity.

Re: How I built this website on a Raspberry Pi

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Post by beeflet »

rainonmoon wrote: post #3

This is a wonderful project and an even more wonderful write-up, I wish I came across more in this tone! I'll just add to anyone following in these footsteps: be careful what type of website you host on your Pi. Self-hosting is great, but if you expose services on your home network to the internet, expect people to try to hack you. What type of site you host will either make this very hard or very easy. The differenc…

I find that ufw is a pretty simple firewall interface for linux.

Re: How I built this website on a Raspberry Pi

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Post by rainonmoon »

beeflet wrote: post #5
rainonmoon wrote: post #3

This is a wonderful project and an even more wonderful write-up, I wish I came across more in this tone! I'll just add to anyone following in these footsteps: be careful what type of website you host on your Pi. Self-hosting is great, but if you expose services on your home network to the internet, expect people to try to hack you. What type of site you host will either make this very hard or very easy. The differenc…

I find that ufw is a pretty simple firewall interface for linux.

UFW is great at what it does, but it's not going to save you from web application attacks.

Re: How I built this website on a Raspberry Pi

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Post by samsquire »

rainonmoon wrote: post #3

This is a wonderful project and an even more wonderful write-up, I wish I came across more in this tone! I'll just add to anyone following in these footsteps: be careful what type of website you host on your Pi. Self-hosting is great, but if you expose services on your home network to the internet, expect people to try to hack you. What type of site you host will either make this very hard or very easy. The differenc…

I would like to benefit from big tech's security teams by hosting web forms and those various different kinds of site you suggest behind them and their teams! WAF + captchas + defence against bots I would rather not do the server handholding and hardening myself.
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