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Why do I have such relative ease of exposing services over the internet compared to others. (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'll admit I've only really been doing all of this fun self-hosting stuff for about 4 years now but I have been learning computer since Apple II. With my local fiber internet I have a static IP address and seem to have no barriers to expose my hosted websites to the internet. I've never used cloudfare and can't imagine why I would need it. Use NGINX reverse proxy manager at both home and work. Some people have to jump through all these hoops and I'm just curious to know what situations necessitate all the extra hassle.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Some people are cautious, and some like to live dangerously and just don't care to get hacked. If there is no need to expose publicly, why would you take the risk. If you do, you better be 99.99% sure that your setup is secure. Some people are, and a lot think they are.