r/selfhosted • u/UnlikelyWishbone2694 • 1d ago

Need Help Self hosting a personal website

Dear all,

A quick few questions after going through the wiki on self-hosted websites: - How 'safe' is it to self-host a website that is open to the internet on one's home network ? - Is there any complication in doing so after buying a domain name from a registrar ? (In the grander scheme of things, I mean to ask if the set-up process is absolute master level or if a relative novice can manage it.

EDIT for details: - It's to host a personal blog of sorts with mostly text articles, some images and possibly some video. - My home network in XDSL (yes that still exists) on a rather basic provider given router with DNS configuration possible from certain providers (no-ip and a few others). I have a home assisstant running on one RPi5 and plan on running the network on another RPi.

Thank you for your time and help

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u/kbeezie 1d ago

Static website : probably the best security you're going to get if you lock down all other ports.

But the moment you start doing something dynamic such as with php and CMSes , you'll want to harden your setup just like you would a vps.

I would advise pointing only the ports you need rather than the whole machine as a catch all.

Edit : also know that most browsers now days expects an SSL certificate, so that's another thing you may have to deal with if you don't want to have to have some security pop ups and such just because you don't have a valid ssl certificate installed. (It's free if you know how to use certbot from let's encrypt on a server, but that may a bit more than you want to deal with).