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 perspective. Thanks. I am running a different production web server with fail2ban, knock and other mitigation strategies in place. In the case of lemmy Linode does automatic backups. I’ll have a think about how much work I want to put into this. A hack or crash would mostly be an annoyance.