Any guides on how to host at home? I’m always afraid that opening ports in my home router means taking the heavy risk of being hacked. Does using something like CloudFlare help? I am a complete beginner.
Edit: Thanks for all the great response! They are very helpful.
Every single software is insecure. Generally servers should have their own networks sperated from your private network like an DMZ.
Not sure why this is getting downvoted… This is a reasonable take. Any piece of software exposed to the public internet is a potential attack vector. It can only increase your attack surface, and ideally you should try to trust pieces of software as little as possible and try to limit the impact it can have if it’s compromised. It’s worth considering. That doesn’t necessarily mean that everything is super high risk, but exploits can be found in pretty much anything at any given time, so it’s worth thinking about how to isolate things and worth thinking about what you’re exposing.