Good post! I run a homeserver too. It serves media content (1080p) to everyone in the house and never has any trouble. It's main purposes are running Plex and n

Good post! I run a homeserver too. It serves media content (1080p) to everyone in the house and never has any trouble. It's main purposes are running Plex and nginx, and soon, e-mail. Only port 80 is accessible to the internet atm (it's fun to read the access logs & see the latest exploit attempts) It's hard because you have to really be on top of security, but it's worth it. > You might say that this is a bit of a cop out, since this all runs on a virtual machine, which itself runs on someone else’s computer. I would agree, however it’s a nice middle ground between going all out with your own servers and running everything in the cloud. To me the reality that the VPS is in the cloud is obscured by the ability to control every detail of its running software. Hmm. Contrarily, this part convinced me to completely self-host all aspects of my internet life. Also, sorry about your blog going down! What was the cause of that?