Re: [BLUG] How many of you run home servers?

I run a server out of my house too, and have been doing so for about
10 years. Actually, these days it's run out of my parents' house,
ever since I was out of the country for a year and needed it to stay
up; before that I ran it out of my own apartments and dorm rooms (with
the exception of one year--see below).

The server hosts a handful of sites for various people, mostly for
myself (firespeaker.org , jnw.name) and my father
(salonaexploration.com , northeasterngeoscience.org).

I'm also curious about the questions Ben asks, though I suppose I can
add some of my own experience to the conversation.

In about 2005, when my server was hosted for a little over a year out
of Brandeis University's LUG (also BLUG :)'s server room, it got
rooted. This was partly my own fault for not running debian security
updates very often and allowing root ssh (which reminds me that I need
to check that again). This is the only real problem I've had, besides
thunderstorms and wind taking the server down at my parents' house
from time to time. While Comcast doesn't seem to be providing a
static IP address service, the IP address does not seem to have
changed at all in the last four years (since I started hosting it at
my parents' house).

--
Jonathan

On 18 July 2011 15:20, Ben Shewmaker <ben@shewbox.org> wrote:
> I've been running a server on my home machine for some time now and
> was just curious how many others out there do the same?  And I'm also
> wondering about security of my home machine.  I'm running AjaxXplorer
> on this machine to serve up some photos/videos from my home computer,
> and, while it does us https, I wonder sometimes about how wise it in
> terms of a security risk.  I also use Dyndns so I don't have to worry
> about my changing IP and wonder if having a domain redirect from a
> dyndns hostname makes me more of a target?  I like to imagine that
> spyware and viruses on my windows machine are a much bigger threat
> than someone trying to hack into my little ubuntu server machine, but
> I thought I'd ask anyone out there if they have any opinions?
>
> Thanks, and I hope everyone's A/C is working well both for your sanity
> and any little home servers you may be running!
>
> Ben
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