Comment by dijit
5 days ago
Yeah, you can.
Lots of people use raspberry pi’s for this, which is a smidge anaemic for some decent load (HN Hug Of Death)- even an Intel N100 is more grunt, for context.
This makes people think that their self hosting setup can never handle HN load; because when they see people talking about self hosting the site goes down.
Most people shouldn't use a Pi because most people can't configure a web server securely. A VPS would be a better option for just about everybody trying to "self-host" whether they put Cloudflare in front of it or not.
in both cases you're setting up a webserver.
I guess you're concerned about lateral network movement? Justified, but as long as it's patched it's going to be just as secure.
You're right, but with an asterisk. I don't care if my DO droplet gets popped with an RCE. I do care if someone establishes persistence in my home.
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