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UnamSanctam / UnamWebPanel

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risks of selfhosting #336

Closed ghost closed 7 months ago

ghost commented 7 months ago

Hello, I have some doubts about hosting the panel on a physical server through port forwarding and I would like to know if it has any risks and what measures I could use to avoid security problems with the public IP and other stuff, thank you!

UnamSanctam commented 7 months ago

Well, the risk is mainly two things: 1) The IP will of course be exposed, as long as this IP is not connected to your identity in any way then this is fine, and 2) The IP address might get blacklisted in a lot of places so it shouldn't be an important IP, or if you're buying/renting the IP address from somewhere (like a VPS or VPN) then they might ban your account or revoke your access (for VPNs this isn't very common).

ghost commented 7 months ago

I see, well I have it screwed up because I would really like to set it up on a home server rather than on a purchased vps, any recommendations or according to you it's just not worth doing it?

UnamSanctam commented 7 months ago

You can do so but using your real IP is risky so preferably you would use a no-log VPN that allows port forwarding, I also self-host everything but I do use VPNs to do so.

ghost commented 7 months ago

perfect, thank you very much for your time dedicated to responding, greetings!

UnamSanctam commented 7 months ago

No problem, and good luck.