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Re: Self-Hosting like it's 2025

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Post by Brian_K_White »

0xEF wrote: post #51

I love the idea of self-hosting, especially since I keep a number of very tiny websites/projects going at any given time, so resources would not really be too much of an issue for me. What stops me is security. I simply do not know enough about securing a self-hosted site on real hardware in my home and despite actively continuing to learn, it seems like the more I learn about it, the more questions I have. My identi…

A few days after a remark on hn, while the thread was still active, I received a mysterious package I didn't order from a weird drop shipping service where the original sender is unknown and undiscoverable to you the recipient. It didn't contain anything bad just a single surgical mask (during covid, common valueless item basically). The message was just that they could find my home address. It was a stupid message since I obviously do not hide my identity on hn. But it means you're not wrong to be careful, both in general, and on hn in particular.

Re: Self-Hosting like it's 2025

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Post by k8sToGo »

mr_mitm wrote: post #114

This site redirects to localhost:1313. Is this some sort of April fool's joke that I'm not getting? $ curl https://kiranet.org/self-hosting-like-its-2025/ //localhost:1313/posts/self-hosting-like-its-2025/

Now it's suddenly returning 404

Re: Self-Hosting like it's 2025

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Post by interloxia »

aborsy wrote: post #75

I can self host many applications, but their security must be outsourced to a company. I don’t have time to keep on top of vulnerabilities. Cloudflare Tunnels is a step in the right direction, but it’s not end to end encrypted. The question is then, how to secure self hosted apps with minimal configuration, in a way that is almost bulletproof?

I don't need public access to my stuff so my strategy is to use zerotier taking care that services are only able to use the virtual network.

It's easy to manage and reason about.

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Post by spencerflem »

0xEF wrote: post #51

I love the idea of self-hosting, especially since I keep a number of very tiny websites/projects going at any given time, so resources would not really be too much of an issue for me. What stops me is security. I simply do not know enough about securing a self-hosted site on real hardware in my home and despite actively continuing to learn, it seems like the more I learn about it, the more questions I have. My identi…

Take a look at sandstorm.org - its set of apps is fairly limited compared to the docker based options but it goes incredibly far wrt security. It was designed by the now head of Cloudflare Workers and pitched as a selfhosting platform for medical and other highly regulated industries. There's still nothing else quite like it

Re: Self-Hosting like it's 2025

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Post by skydhash »

Aachen wrote: post #94
kuon wrote: post #60

If you self host, do not use containers and all those things. Just use a static site generator like zola or hugo and rsync to a small VPS running caddy or nginx. If you need dynamic thing, there are many frameworks you can just rsync too with little dependencies. Or use PHP, it's not that bad. Just restrict all locations except public ones to your ip in nginx config if you use something like wordpress and you should…

What I'm reading is not to use containers for a web server, which makes sense because web servers have had vhosts since forever and you can host any number of sites on there independently already But what about other services, like if you want a database server as well, a mail server, etc.? I started using containers when I last upgraded hardware and while it's not as beneficial as I had hoped, it's still an improvem…

That’s when you favor stability and use an LTS OS. You can also isolate workload by using VMs. Containers is nice for the installation part, but the immutability can be a pain.
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