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Any guides on how to host at home? I'm always afraid that opening ports in my home router means taking the heavy risk of being hacked. Does using something like CloudFlare help? I am a complete beginner.

Edit: Thanks for all the great response! They are very helpful.

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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 1 points 3 years ago

Assuming you use Docker or some kind of container runtime I found a list of best practices: https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Docker_Security_Cheat_Sheet.html