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I find the idea of self-hosting to be really appealing, but at the same time I find it to be incredibly scary. This is not because I lack the technical expertise, but because I have gotten the impression that everyone on the Internet would immediately try to hack into it to make it join their bot net. As a result, I would have to be constantly vigilant against this, yet one of the numerous assailants would only have to succeed once. Dealing with this constant threat seems like it would be frightening enough as a full-time job, but this would only be a hobby project for me.

How do the self-hosters on Lemmy avoid becoming one with the botnet?

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[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have snort running on my firewall monitoring my LAN port. Does it help? No idea. Does it make me feel good because it blocks stuff? Yup. It does enforce IP blacklists from a feed, so it’s a start.

Keeping an loose eye on things and watching for extra network traffic, cpu, ram usage is what I do.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

I run the Suricata package in pFsense which I would say is kissing cousins to Snort. It actually does work very well. In fact, on occasion, too well. I'd rather that that just having my jimmy hanging out in traffic. I also employ the pfblockerng's massive feed lists, and Tailscale packages on the standalone pFsense firewall, and a VPN on all devices. Network so tight they call it virgin. LOL Not really, but I tend to go a bit overboard on security measures.