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Self hosting your website at home - my experience so far (alien.top)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all, some months ago I had an accident that required surgery, long story short, found this sub and it helped me go through the slow recovery process. I have been learning a lot with you and now I want to share my experience so far, I put together a post about self-hosting my website at home, the hardware I'm using, the software, tools, etc. I hope you find it useful or even inspirational if you haven't started yet, and I would love to hear your comments.

https://proderror.eu/blog/self-hosting-my-website-at-home-2023-11-25.md

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The choice of router doesn't do much as most if not all home routers these days have built-in firewalls enough to block most intrusions on network without open ports. If self-hosting a website at home then make sure to secure the two web hosting ports (TCP port 80/443) with UFW, Fail2Ban, or even Port Knocking on for ex. Linux. Don't forward but limit access (locally) to SSH port. Encrypt your DNS (DoH, DoT, etc.) at home by running either AdGuard Home or Pi-hole.

Proxy DNS via Cloudflare & make sure to use full (strict) end-to-end SSL encryption (DNSSEC enabled). Also, use stronger security headers & SSL encryption parameters (minimum TLSv1.2, SSL ciphers, stapling & ECDH curve, etc.). Use a software firewall on your websites such as Wordfence, Sucuri, or BBQ Pro on Wordpress.

Don't overkill with your network setup. If you're just gonna be running a website that serves primarily cached & preloaded static pages then no use spending hundreds of dollars for it. Even a wireless Rasp. Pi Zero W is an overkill for such a setup.