I’ve been doing small hosting off and on for a while. Mainly for accessing files at home and the occasional Minecraft server. Not smart, as I’ve never used a specialized router. I used to use ddwrt, but now it’s impossible to flash most consumer grade routers.
id like to learn more stuff about cyber security, host other stuff, maybe host a website, but I’m just a guy who lives in an apartment. I’m stuck with 1 Internet service that claims it will terminate my service if they find me to be hosting anything. They must be semi-lax with that rule, because i haven’t gotten terminated for using ssh and cockpit.
Do you guys own a house, or are just fortunate enough to have access to an ISP that will let you host your own stuff?
I’ve been slowly adding things to the mini PC someone in my family gifted me. I keep thinking there’s no way this little machine can take one more thing. But as I sit here it’s idling between 10-20% and basically never peaks up to the top. I’ve had no issues with this little machine keeping up. I also have slow internet, the lowest package offered. But my little champion just keeps proving it’s self time and time again. It’s made me realize that most people on here are making this sound much more burdensome than it actually is for a personal use server. If it’s just you and family, you probably don’t need to worry about it.
The more I self host the more I realize everyone needs to be self hosting at least one thing. But really why not more? Things are getting easier and easier mostly because those amongst us with really in depth knowledge are making easy launch scripts and self deploying programs. It’s taught me a lot and has been a lot of fun. It’s also really practical. I especially like having the FTP which might be the first and easiest thing I setup. It’s really cool to have my own cloud it’s not super secure being that there’s no data redundancy but it’s more than adequate for things I already have redundancy for like my whole phone syncs up every night, but I also upload all my photos to a cloud service. I also have common space for me and my spouse to share files really really easily and keep these files all in a common space. This has been helpful when looking for medical records during an emergency. But also just to share larger files in general. We even keep a collection of ebooks on there, we read from my server every night. My kid watches most TV from my server too. This avoids my kid being exposed to most ads I find inappropriate.