I just spun up a private instance of lemmy on the cheapest Linode. So far so good.

I used the ansible method of installing the instance on the default Debian 11 image from Linode (link below).

I feel a bit worried that there are no firewall instructions in the install documents. And no notes on securing your instance.

Any thoughts on how to set up ufw for a lemmy instance? Or thoughts on other security tips?

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible

  • flea@hive.atlanten.seOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Great insights! Yeah, you’re right. There is nothing they can get from the machine that really compromises anything important. It is indeed the compute resources that are what needs to be kept an eye on.

    It’s a really good idea to put usage restrictions in place. There are already alerts in place, but I have scaled the triggers way down, as lemmy really doesn’t use a lot of resources ATM. Will look into restrictions also.