Subj : Re: Advice on self-hosting a website?
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : neoshock
Date : Sat Apr 05 2025 01:38 am

 pF>  Vi> Recently I dug up an old PC and decided to install Ubuntu Server on i
 pF>  Vi> and use it as my server for hosting a website. I am using Nginx.
 pF>  Vi> Does anyone have any general and/or security advice?

I am not expert, however I have been running a home server for quite sometime. I would suggest not installing the webserver directly on the hardware, but instead use something like proxmox, and create a container for a webserver. You are never going to get perfect security, however you can have daily backups of you services, and if anything critical does happen, restoring a previous backup is one click away. This is also useful not just for security, but if you simply goof up a configuration, same idea. If I plan to make any changes to any of my services, I have learned to take a quick snapshot, just to make sure I can restore back to a working sate.

Lloyd (neoshock) sysop @ Vintage Pi BBS
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