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Thinking of getting into self hosting but I'm a complete noob (lemmy.zip)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I think of myself as technically inclined. I have installed Linux multiple times and have basic command line knowledge, and I've programmed in many languages, with the most experience making a static website game using HTML/CSS/JS.

Additionally, I own the superspruce.org domain (my registrar is Dynadot), but I don't really know how to wield the power of owning a domain. I also have some spare computers to be used for hosting, a 2009 laptop running Lubuntu and a 3900X+32GB RAM desktop other running KDE Neon, but I'm also open to experimenting with cloud hosting too (I know, sacrilege here).

However, I don't know much about the TCP/IP protocol or other networking protocols. I'm happy to learn, but the curve would need to start gently.

I would want to try hosting my websites, and also a personal non-federated Lemmy instance to serve as a archivable forum for my games. Even if it's not very useful, it's great experience.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Interesting. I guess security wasn't that good by default back then, firewalls are now set up by default on pretty much every server distro.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

There was no such thing as a default firewall, but even now when I set up a new Debian machine there are no firewall rules, just the base iptables installed so you CAN add rules. Back then we also had insecure things like telnet installed by default and exposed to the world, so there's really no telling exactly how they managed to get into my machine. It's still good to learn about network security up front rather than relying on any default settings if someone is planning on self-hosting.