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Yeah, you can. Lots of people use raspberry pi’s for this, which is a smidge anaemic for some decent load (HN Hug Of Death)- even an Intel N100 is more grunt,
by dijit 11mo ago
Yeah, you can.
Lots of people use raspberry pi’s for this, which is a smidge anaemic for some
decent load (HN Hug Of Death)- even an Intel N100 is more grunt, for context.
This makes people think that their self hosting setup can never handle HN load; because when they see people talking about self hosting the site goes down.
- rainonmoon 11mo agoMost people shouldn't use a Pi because most people can't configure a web server securely. A VPS would be a better option for just about everybody trying to "self-host" whether they put Cloudflare in front of it or not.
- dijit 11mo agoin both cases you're setting up a webserver. I guess you're concerned about lateral network movement? Justified, but as long as it's patched it's going to be just as secure.
- rainonmoon 11mo agoYou're right, but with an asterisk. I don't care if my DO droplet gets popped with an RCE. I do care if someone establishes persistence in my home.
- 1718627440 11mo agoYou can have different networks in your physical home.
- rainonmoon 11mo agoAnd?
- 1718627440 11mo agoMeaning your internal network and your publicly hosted services need to not to be in the same network.