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Installing self-hostable services on a cloud server isn't self-hosting ??? (jlai.lu)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by KaKi87@jlai.lu to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'm asking cause my previous post regarding my server that isn't at home got moderated for violating rule 3. I don't get it ๐Ÿค”

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[โ€“] KaKi87@jlai.lu 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Well, I noticed my post got moderated when I wasn't able to reply to you, so here's my reply :

The very first Linux server I ever stood up got whacked. I got a nastygram from my host that he had shut it down because of malicious activity against other servers. So, from their standpoint, I can understand why.

Yes, but they should warn before shutting down, give you at least a few hours to speak for yourself.

[โ€“] irmadlad@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yes, but they should warn before shutting down,

IDK, if I were running the show, I'd probably have done the same thing especially when it started to involve other servers. I would assume that there would be some legal ramifications should it have just been ignored. It would have been good to observe to see if I could come up with who the puppeteer was, but I was super green then and probably wouldn't have known where to start as far as forensics. I mean, if you get hacked, the knee jerk reaction is to pull the plug, but it would be more productive to do some forensics before killing the server.

[โ€“] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I agree with 'nuke first ask questions later' when your compromised host is impacting other devices. If and only if i knew the attempts weren't going anywhere or doing anything would I consider unicing the vm/container to see what happened.

[โ€“] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Now that I reflect on the embarrassment, it was a cheap, shared VPS and I'm pretty sure I was dogging the share. LOL Ahhhh....innocence. However, it was evident I needed some personal edification. Now, I am told, I over engineer security, but it works, so keep it the way it is.

[โ€“] KaKi87@jlai.lu 2 points 4 months ago

At the very least, you could cut off Internet access and reduce vCores to 0.5, instead of completely shutting it down and only offering the user to book 4 hours of access during business hours as if they didn't have work too.

[โ€“] Pika@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

When you say moderated, do you mean a comment or did you do another post? if its a comment is that something your instance does? or did it just fail to send. you peaked my curiosity because I wasn't aware of instances filtering comments, only posts.

[โ€“] KaKi87@jlai.lu 2 points 4 months ago

No I mean the post was removed.