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    Background: 15 years of experience in software and apparently spoiled because it was already set up correctly.

    Been practicing doing my own servers, published a test site and 24 hours later, root was compromised.

    Rolled back to the backup before I made it public and now I have a security checklist.

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    [โ€“] otacon239 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Iโ€™ve always felt that if youโ€™re exposing an SSH or any kind of management port to the internet, you can avoid a lot of issues with a VPN. Iโ€™ve always setup a VPN. It prevents having to open up very much at all and then you can open configured web portal ports and the occasional front end protocol where needed.

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    [โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    I do worry about putting up public servers that other people might rely on because there's something I might not realize making it vulnerable.

    So far I have pubkey root login only on the VPSs I'm messing around with, but my ol' reliable private key from 6 years ago might be beginning to fall behind on encryption standards.

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    [โ€“] ikidd 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    This is like browsing /c/selfhosted as everyone portforwards every experimental piece of garbage across their router...

    [โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Meh. Each service in its isolated VM and subnet. Plus just generally a good firewall setup. Currently hosting ~10 services plubicly, never had any issue.

    [โ€“] ikidd 4 points 1 day ago

    Well, if you actually do that, bully for you, that's how that should be done if you have to expose services.

    Everyone else there is probably DMZing their desktop from what I can tell.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

    hey, thats me!

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