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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 pipes »

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…

Thanks for pointing this out. Do you know of any guides on securing a home pi web server, or less specifically, securing any Linux device exposed to the public internet?

Re: How I built this website on a Raspberry Pi

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Post by 3np »

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.

I found that over time ufw becomes unwieldy and it's hard to make sure you keep the rules consistent - even (especially?) with configuration management.

I highly recommend firewalld instead.

Re: How I built this website on a Raspberry Pi

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Post by rednafi »

I like how the author didn’t try to be overly clever with it. They could’ve used Docker to install and isolate dependencies, Caddy or Traefik to serve the site and manage SSL automatically, maybe even k3s to run a mini cluster for HA, Tailscale to avoid manual port forwarding, Terraform for future auto-provisioning without hassle, or Ansible to prepare the machine and all that jazz.

Instead, they took the simplest possible route that works: installing the web server on bare metal, serving plain HTML and CSS, and using direct port forwarding via the router. This was a delightful read.

Re: How I built this website on a Raspberry Pi

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Post by throwaway290 »

VBprogrammer wrote: post #19

I really enjoyed this but at the same time find it completely perplexing - I can't place where the author is coming from - they are either really good at explaining things from the point of view of someone who knows almost nothing about this stuff or they genuinely started this without knowing most of it. I'm not sure which would be more impressive.

We could have some words for this paradoxical phenomenon. I suggest "humility" and "patience":) Maybe even "kindness"

Re: How I built this website on a Raspberry Pi

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Post by ekianjo »

rednafi wrote: post #25

I like how the author didn’t try to be overly clever with it. They could’ve used Docker to install and isolate dependencies, Caddy or Traefik to serve the site and manage SSL automatically, maybe even k3s to run a mini cluster for HA, Tailscale to avoid manual port forwarding, Terraform for future auto-provisioning without hassle, or Ansible to prepare the machine and all that jazz. Instead, they took the simplest po…

> installing the web server on bare metal,

On top of a Linux distro is not what people usually call bare metal

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