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Completely unrelated to the thread but > I don't really check who's building my websites or little tools I purchase. How do you sleep at night? Honest questio

Completely unrelated to the thread but > I don't really check who's building my websites or little tools I purchase. How do you sleep at night? Honest question. I want to know the assumptions and reasoning that leads to one being comfortable with this decision. I’m probably more worried than I should be, but every time I look at my puny little openBSD webserver’s log, I find about 2 to 5 new attempts to scan my server for various exploits a month. Each attempt is a relentless scans looking for all sorts of holes with hundreds of potential exploits. The first time I read those logs, I swore I would never move from openBSD + httpd ever. The internet is outright hostile to any computer with an ip address and a port open to the internet. I’m sure there are some companies out there that provide hosting solutions that do a good job at keeping things updated - but even they are defenseless against things like the recent log4j vulnerability (and that’s just the stuff the good guys caught). At the very least, I would want to know who is building my websites and what their track record is.

HeyLaughingBoy 5y ago
Some people are natural worriers and others aren't. I'm not. In the end it's probably as simple as that.
brnt 5y ago
So, you never pay for anything on an app store? You host everything on your own hardware? I am far more worried about the air quality that floats into my home than a website that's hosted somewhere else and isn't connected to anything but its own content.
- dilippkumar 5y ago
  > So, you never pay for anything on an app store? I buy software from the app store for sure. But I do not pull down .apk binaries from the darkweb and run them on my phone - especially if I don't know who the author was. I doubt most sane people would download and run binaries from random websites (darkweb or not) even today. > You host everything on your own hardware? No I don't. I trust my hosting provider, and they have a track record of reputable service, I have a business relationship with them. I would say I know who is hosting my website.

HeyLaughingBoy 5y ago

Some people are natural worriers and others aren't. I'm not. In the end it's probably as simple as that.

brnt 5y ago

So, you never pay for anything on an app store? You host everything on your own hardware? I am far more worried about the air quality that floats into my home than a website that's hosted somewhere else and isn't connected to anything but its own content.

dilippkumar 5y ago
> So, you never pay for anything on an app store? I buy software from the app store for sure. But I do not pull down .apk binaries from the darkweb and run them on my phone - especially if I don't know who the author was. I doubt most sane people would download and run binaries from random websites (darkweb or not) even today. > You host everything on your own hardware? No I don't. I trust my hosting provider, and they have a track record of reputable service, I have a business relationship with them. I would say I know who is hosting my website.