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How do I avoid becoming one with the botnet? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 days ago by bitcrafter@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 55 minutes ago) (1 children)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
Git	Popular version control system, primarily for code
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
IP	Internet Protocol
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
NAT	Network Address Translation
SSH	Secure Shell for remote terminal access
TCP	Transmission Control Protocol, most often over IP
VPN	Virtual Private Network
VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
nginx	Popular HTTP server

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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I have often wondered since our friendly and helpful bot arrived, what would happen if we made a thread where everyone used as many acronyms as possible in our comments. It's actually one of the more cooler bots I've seen in a while. Especially for new arrivals who don't spreken ze Lingley. Crackin' iidea.