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For example, something that is too complex for your comfort level, a security concern, or maybe your hardware can’t keep up with the service’s needs?

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 year ago (24 children)

Hosting an email server is pretty sure a magnet for half the Chinese IP range.... So I would refrain from hosting that myself.

[–] Anafroj 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Gladly, fail2ban exists. :) Note that it's not just smtp anyway. Anything on port 22 (ssh) or 80/443 (http/https) get constantly tested as well. I've actually set up fail2ban rules to ban anyone who is querying / on my webserver, it catches of lot of those pests.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Om going to try that as well

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