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atzanteol , to selfhosted in Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked?

No point talking to you then.

atzanteol , to selfhosted in Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked?

… You’re joking right?

atzanteol , to selfhosted in Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked?

I’m positive that F5’s marketing department knows more than me about security and has not ulterior motive in making you think you’re more secure.

Snark aside, they may do some sort of WAF in addition to being a proxy. Just “adding a proxy” does very little.

atzanteol , to selfhosted in Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked?

They may offer some sort of WAF (web application firewall) that inspects traffic for potentially malicious intent. Things like SQL injection. That’s more than just a proxy though.

Otherwise, they really don’t.

atzanteol , to selfhosted in Server for a boat

HDDs don’t do well when rotated

The original iPod had an HDD in it. You can rotate HDDs. Sharp impacts may be risky though, especially for a non-laptop drive.

atzanteol , to selfhosted in Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked?

Put your reverse proxy in a DMZ, so that only it is directly facing the intergoogles

So what? I can still access your application through the rproxy. You’re not protecting the application by doing that.

Install a single wildcard cert and easily cover any subdomains you set up

This is a way to do it but not a necessary way to do it. The rproxy has not improved security here. It’s just convenient to have a single SSL endpoint.

There’s even nginx configuration files out there that will block URL’s based on regex pattern matches for suspicious strings. All of this (probably a lot more I’m missing) adds some level of layered security.

If you do that, sure. But that’s not the advice given in this forum is it? It’s “install an rproxy!” as though that alone has done anything useful.

For the most part people in this form seem to think that “direct access to my server” is unsafe but if you simply put a second hop in the chain that now you can sleep easily at night. And bonus points if that rproxy is a VPS or in a separate subnet!

The web browser doesn’t care if the application is behind one, two or three rproxies. If I can still get to your application and guess your password or exploit a known vulnerability in your application then it’s game over.

atzanteol , to selfhosted in Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked?

My reverse proxy setup allows me to map hostnames to those services and expose only 80/443 to the web,

The mapping is helpful but not a security benefit. The latter can be done with a firewall.

Paraphrasing - there is a bunch of stuff you can also do with a reverse proxy

Yes. But that’s no longer just a reverse proxy. The reverse proxy isn’t itself a security tool.

I see a lot of vacuous security advice in this forum. “Install a firewall”, “install a reverse proxy”, etc. This is mostly useless advice. Yes, do those things but they do not add any protection to the service you are exposing.

A firewall only protects you from exposing services you didn’t want to expose (e.g. NFS or some other service running on the same system), and the rproxy just allows for host based routing. In both cases your service is still exposed to the internet. Directly or indirectly makes no significant difference.

What we should be advising people to do is “use a valid ssl certificate, ensure you don’t use any application default passwords, use very good passwords where you do use them, and keep your services and servers up-to-date”.

A firewall allowing port 443 in and an rproxy happily forwarding traffic to a vulnerable server is of no help.

atzanteol , to selfhosted in Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked?

Reverse proxies don’t add security.

atzanteol , to selfhosted in Looking for a music server

I like Subsonic. The interface is a bit dated but it supports multiple users and has excellent android apps.

atzanteol , to linux in What is your favourite shell to use

This is a good approach. I’ve always found it beneficial to learn “the standard things” than relying on a customized setup.

I’ve seen some people absolutely lost when they login to a system without 500 custom aliases on it…

atzanteol , to pics in File:2000 Fremont Solstice Parade - blue women.jpg

I do. Anyone else when asked simply says “oops, sorry, done”. You pitch a fit and act like it’s a civil rights violation.

What a moron.

atzanteol , to pics in File:2000 Fremont Solstice Parade - blue women.jpg

It’s not censorship. 🙄

atzanteol , to programming in Is the Java ecossystem of languages and related stuff a thing, professionally?

I’ve found good work with both. Java has been “dying” for decades according to people who have an irrational dislike for the language. I’m yet to see any evidence for it. The ecosystem of libraries there is huge and well maintained.

Frankly I’d learn both as well as Python and maybe rust and go. Once you become proficient in any language it’s easier to learn others. So start with Java if that calls to you but branch out as well.

atzanteol , to linux in How can I easily and conveniently transfer files wirelessly between my linux computer and android phone?

The android nextcloud client works great if you’re willing to setup/maintain a nextcloud server.

atzanteol , to selfhosted in Suggest me a secure chat platform for my family

IP was invented in the '70s. Sometimes older protocols that work are just fine.

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