I’ve been doing small hosting off and on for a while. Mainly for accessing files at home and the occasional Minecraft server. Not smart, as I’ve never used a specialized router. I used to use ddwrt, but now it’s impossible to flash most consumer grade routers.

id like to learn more stuff about cyber security, host other stuff, maybe host a website, but I’m just a guy who lives in an apartment. I’m stuck with 1 Internet service that claims it will terminate my service if they find me to be hosting anything. They must be semi-lax with that rule, because i haven’t gotten terminated for using ssh and cockpit.

Do you guys own a house, or are just fortunate enough to have access to an ISP that will let you host your own stuff?

  • styx@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I have a yearly vps subscription with 16GB ram, 160 GB ssd and 8 cores, including 5TB network limit. It is some Lithuanian company (time4vps). I don’t have a static ip at home, and if I want to get one I have to pay pretty much the same amount, so why bother?

    It has Debian 11, and ufw as the only security measure, together with Caddy as reverse proxying everything so only a handful of ports are open (80,8080, 443, and one for syncthing and one for dot).

    I have the following services running:

    • Nextcloud (for office tools, calendar, to do, boards)
    • firefly iii for self accounting
    • technitium dns server for doh and dot with blocking
    • grafana, prometheus and node exporter foe monitoring
    • libreddit for, well, you know
    • searcxng
    • trilium for private knowledge base
    • tailscale for tunneling and VPN
    • syncthing for file syncing and password sync together with keepassxc
    • my personal page, auto updating with github actions over sftp.

    I have partially documented most of my work in my blog, so you can take a look if you wish https://mustafacanyucel.com/#blog .

      • styx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Thank you. It is only css and html, but since my creative skills are no better than a potato’s, I am using a designer-made template for css 😅.