I just started self hosting. I have been really enjoying it so far but I’m nervous that the excitement will wear off soon unless something stressful or even catastrophic happens. Any advice?
King, all you must do is set up root ssh access with a short password and port forward port 22 to it. Super easy, super quick!
For extra spice, I’d recommend also hitting your hard drives with a hammer once or twice a day. They just don’t like vibrations; you’ve gotta weed out the weak ones. Only the strong data will survive.
very good point. thank you m’lord.
…how bad would it be if i actually tried this. not the hammer part but now i really wanna know what happens if i open port forward to 22.
Thanks for your interest in joining the botnet!
I’d recommend using “password” as your password and “root” for the username. Attackers have a lot of stuff going on! Don’t make their job all complicated, make it easy to remember.
Older operating systems like a really old Linux distro or Windows XP are the best, since their performance requirements are a lot lower, giving better overhead for the crypto miners that will be installed. Modern OSs waste resources on security features and such.
this is very helpful thank you!
Open port 22
Wait 10 minutes
Prepare your anus
Okay. Let me look up how to open this portal 22 you speak of.
Just have it open in your home router configuration to forward traffic somewhere.
Or you can have an SSH server running on a small VM and you can route traffic there and watch the logs. Like a honeypot type of thing.
Install hypermind
Delete your backups and do a full system upgrade.
Back up an image the entire operating system HD when it’s working well. If you ever get overwhelmed with bugs you can always go back to a functioning state.
We all like checking out the latest features and updates but it’s important to remember that it’s not a race.
