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.

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    1 year ago

    Yeah, unless you’re worried about people targeting your IP specifically, using a reverse proxy service seems like more complexity without more security. Not opening ports, and especially not opening well known ports, is just superstition. It just changes where somebody connects to the service without limiting access to or securing the service.