Comment on Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked?

poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What?

  I’ve popped up a web server and within a day had so many hits on the router (thousands per minute) that performance tanked.

  Yea, no, any exposed service will get hammered. Frankly I’m surprised that machine I setup didn’t get hacked.

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  • poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t leave SSH on port 22 open as there are a lot of crawlers for that, otherwise I really can’t say I share your experience, and I have been self-hosting for years.

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    • jjlinux@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Am I missing something? Why would anyone leave SSH open outside the internal network?

      All of my services have SSH disabled unless I need to do something, and then I only do it locally, and disable as soon as I’m done.

      Note that I don’t have a VPS anywhere.

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      • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        How do you reach into your server with SSH disabled without lugging a monitor and keyboard around?

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      • poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Some people want to be able to reach their server via SSH when they are not at home, but yes I agree in general that is not necessary when running a real home server.

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  • Count042@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve been self-hosting a bunch of stuff for over a decade now, and have not had that issue.

    Except for a matrix server with open registration for a community that others not in the community started to use.

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    • Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes my biggest mistake was leaving a vps dns server wide open. It took months for it to get abused though.

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  • Oisteink@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lol

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  • Omgboom@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You left stuff exposed is the only explanation. I’ve had services running for years without a problem

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What class of IP was it?

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  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can’t say I’ve seen anything like that on the webservers I’ve exposed to the internet. But it could vary based on the IP you have if it’s a target for something already I suppose.

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