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The "safest" way of self hosting (feddit.uk)

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

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Hello peoples,

I am looking for tips on how to make my self-hosted setup as safe as possible.

Some background: I started self-hosting some services about a year ago, using an old lenovo thin client. It's plenty powerful for what I'm asking it to do, and it's not too loud. Hardware wise I am not expecting to change things up any time soon.

I am not expecting anyone to take the time to baby me through the process, I will be more than happy with some links to good articles and the like. My main problem is that there's so much information out there, I just don't know where to start or what to trust.

Anyways, thank you for reading.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Dude... It's the hundredth time you've posted this copypasta.
Image-based OSs aren't locked down and also don't depend on proprietary services.

You can just read my post I made about immutable systems, maybe we can discuss it there.

But, I wouldn't choose a image based OS right now too for servers. At least yet.
I'm just afraid about compatibility, because many installers and services might rely on access to the root file system for now. Debian is right now the best choice as server OS, but that might change in the future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Image-based OSs aren’t locked down and also don’t depend on proprietary services.

I'm sure we've been over this. It's just a question of time until those solutions become unmanageable at scale and for the more professional users and then a magic proprietary solution that fixes it all will appear. Exactly the same that happened with Docker/DockerHub/Kubernetes.

I’m just afraid about compatibility, because many installers and services might rely on access to the root file system for now. Debian is right now the best choice as server OS, but that might change in the future.

Use BRTFS/ZFS snapshots to rollback if anything breaks. Either way you can use LXD/LXC as containers to run your stuff that are easy to setup and will resolve the root filesystem issue.