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If you had to redo your self hosting setup, what would you do differently this time around? (self.selfhosted)

submitted 1 year ago by hogofwar to c/selfhosted

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[–] vegetaaaaaaa 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’d encrypt all disks. Nevertheless, it covers my ass when they retire the server after I used it.

Good point. How do you unlock the disk at boot time? dropbear-initramfs and enter the passphrase manually every time it boots? Unencrypted /boot/ and store the decryption key in plaintext there?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I run openbsd on all my servers so I would be entering the passphrase manually at boot time. Saving the key on unencrypted /boot is basically locking your door and leaving the key on it :)