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?

  • glizzyguzzler@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    17·
    11 hours ago

    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.

      • Crash@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        …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.

    • GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      6·
      9 hours ago

      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.