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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?

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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Open port 22

Wait 10 minutes

Prepare your anus

[–] crash_thepose@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Okay. Let me look up how to open this portal 22 you speak of.

Just have it open in your home router configuration to forward traffic somewhere.

Or you can have an SSH server running on a small VM and you can route traffic there and watch the logs. Like a honeypot type of thing.