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  • scans for open ports ran continuously since the 1990s, it was never a big deal. Also they only run on lower ports (not that it matters)

    what are you talking about killing your internet performance? You can have hundreds of thousands of scans per day (which isn’t gonna happen, you won’t even get 100) and it still won’t bog down jank cable internet from early 2000s


  • unidentified attempts are just standard internet, bots are always poking every port on every IP 24/7 for last 25 years never stopping.

    yea good luck with the ghost, otherwise there is always wordpress lol. If you’re wanting reader/viewer interaction there are only a few other than maybe just running a forum and posting .


  • rice@lemmy.orgtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldRisks of self-hosting a public-facing forum?
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    2 days ago

    Do it.

    There’s really not much that can end badly, someone gets in your network (unlikely anyone even knows it exists)? reformat all your shit. Just by knowing what a DMZ is you are already more qualified than half the people I’ve met self hosting

    do you run a business out of your house? do you run a bunch of peoples personal info? does anyone else? If you answered no to all of these then there really isn’t much that can “go wrong” you can just unplug your shit.

    hosting email also isn’t that big of a deal but your home ISP will block port 25, you need to have a “business” one for them to unblock it and even then sometimes have to directly request it. Things like mailcow docker make it dead easy.

    and yea as the other guy said always update your stuff








  • rice@lemmy.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlDo any of you guys own a blog?
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    3 days ago

    nginx is a reverse proxy and quite easy to use. You generally would have it in front of anything you host, no matter what it is. There are very few things I’d trust directly exposed.

    Ghost is the most full featured self hosted blogging platform other than wordpress. If he doesn’t care if people read it or not there are plenty options to just privately post your crap (which is what I do so I can go back and reference) however you probably don’t want that since you want “option for non registered users”

    As far as security goes running Hugo and generating static sites is about as secure as it gets, no backend no user interaction though

    He can also sign up on any of the news/blog sites and post there like medium etc.