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Yeah this is what keeps me away from self-hosting public facing stuff. To me its like opening a new pipe into your home that is open to the whole world. And I'm too carefree to get the settings down right. So I avoid it all with complete process isolation. Don't shit where you sleep!

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But couldn't, you, within your home, separate it from everything else? I don't see how it's any more dangerous really.

I should clarify. When I mean self host it’s for public facing applications that generate revenue. It involves some transaction in currency?value? between the user. Once money is involved you become a target. I don’t want anything that could be traced to my physical address. I told you I’m careless, I’ll eventually slip up on installing the patches or configuring something right.

Public facing like serving some static webpages or blog, text content. Yeah do it.

Obviously you need to know how and if you don't then it's always going to look very daunting.

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