Is there any benefit to host my own instance?

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    1 year ago

    that would be perfect.

    WIth Debian I would install UFW for a firewall. Set SSH to whatever your home IP is. You can always use the Linode SSH console for external access.

    UFW is easy to configure and just translates iptables.

    sudo ufw allow from any to any port 80 proto tcp
    sudo ufw allow from any to any port 443 proto tcp
    sudo ufw allow from HOMEIP to any port 22 tcp
    

    If you want leave SSH open. Then i would probably only do Key based auth in /etc/ssh/sshd_config

    you also want to edit that file (sshd_config) to disable root access once setup. I often turn on the following

    LoginGraceTime 2m
    PermitRootLogin no
    StrictModes yes
    MaxAuthTries 6
    MaxSessions 10
    AllowGroups somegroupname
    

    then create a user and a group and add the user to the group. This ensures only that user has SSH access.

    sudo adduser someusername
    sudo addgroup somegroupname 
    sudo usermod -aG somegroupname someusername
    

    You can also use visudo to edit sudoers. The first like will require a password. If you use the second line, you can sudo without a password. I would only do the latter if you only use key-based auth though.

    
    someuser   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
    someuser ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
    
    

    I also edit /etc/hostname to my server name. Update and reboot. From there run through ansible instructions and make edits as necessary.