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What else should I do for my home server security? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by KingDingbat@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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So I'm relatively new to server hosting. (But experienced with remote web hosting from providers.) After about a year of fighting to run Nextcloud on a hosting company and finally losing everything from the cPanel vulnerability a few months ago, I broke down and launched my own home server. I'm looking for advice to maximize security.

CachyOS Linux with ClamAV Docker via Portainer Nextcloud (E2EE), Immich, DocuSeal and NoteTrace Routed through a domain and subdimains via Zero Trust Cloudflare Tunnel and Cloudflare DNS.

I have regular redundant backups both onsite and offsite with Duplicati.

My passwords for OS and all admin dashboards are extremely long, unique, random strings managed by Bitwarden.

I know just enough about this stuff to get into trouble. What else should I setup? I have little to no monitoring going on and don't know much about that direction.

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[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 11 minutes ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
ICMP	Internet Control Message Protocol (ping, TTL exceeded, etc)
ISP	Internet Service Provider
IoT	Internet of Things for device controllers
LVM	(Linux) Logical Volume Manager for filesystem mapping
SSH	Secure Shell for remote terminal access
VPN	Virtual Private Network
VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

7 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.

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