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There’s an added advantage to running your own server or VM. Heroku is a big, juicy attack target. Your little side project is not. If you take the basic precau
by christophilus 5y ago
There’s an added advantage to running your own server or VM. Heroku is a big, juicy attack target. Your little side project is not. If you take the basic precautions, your VPS will probably be just fine unless you become super successful and a juicy target in your own right.
- kasey_junk 5y agoThe security history of VPS’ don’t lend much credibility to your argument. It was a running gag for awhile how frequently Linode was getting owned up (they may be great now this was a while ago).
- christophilus 5y agoYeah, I don’t run the provider’s software on my VPSs, so it’s mostly a non-issue, especially if you encrypt your disks.