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submitted 1 year ago by Orban to c/selfhosted
 

Hey guys, thanks to some of you I was able to set up my lemmy instance. Its working flawlessly. But here comes my new question:

From a security perspective, is it less secure and less anonymous this way, right? I mean with an account on any other instance you would be kinda insivisble if you use a VPN and a alias email without any trace back to yourself. But with an own instance anybody can check where is your server located, therefore you would be less anonym. Right?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

depends, a server is just a server. Its more about how you setup your domain and secure your site. My domains are all anon and I run my servers through cloudflare. You don't really see the actual server itself, just cloudflares gateway.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

This is the way. I'm routed through cloudflare with private registration as well. The exposed IPs belong to Cloudflare and only they and I know where it goes after that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I have the same setup. You just need to make sure the domain info is private when you first register it because if the whois history is cached somewhere and your info was public before then it can still be found.

[–] Orban 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you, now I'm getting to know cloudflare.At the moment there is some problem with a redirecting loop, but as I read itcould be a problem with my nginx config and https. Either way thank you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Make sure ssl is set to full or strict If using local certs as well. Want to skip local certs? Use cloudflared