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.
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.
Count042@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
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.
Oisteink@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Lol
Omgboom@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
You left stuff exposed is the only explanation. I’ve had services running for years without a problem
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
What class of IP was it?
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.
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.
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.
MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
How do you reach into your server with SSH disabled without lugging a monitor and keyboard around?
jjlinux@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
My server, NAS and all my services have web GUIs. If I need SSH access all I have to do is enable it via web GUI, do what I need to, disable again.
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.
JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Then use Wireguard to get into your local network. Simple as. All security risks that don’t need to be accessed by the public (document servers, ssh, internal tools, etc…) can be accessed via VPN while the port forwarded servers are behind a reverse proxy, TLS, and an authentication layer like Authelia/authentik for things that only a small group needs to access.
Sorry, but there is 1 case in 10000 where a home user would have to have publicly exposed SSH and 9999 cases of 10000 where it is not needed at all and would only be done out of laziness or lack of knowledge of options.
jjlinux@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Yeah, I guess I’ve never needed to do that. That may change as I’m thinking of moving all my services from UnRaid to ProxMox to leave UnRaid for storage only.
I guess that’ll bring me back here soon enough.