Notorious@lemmy.linkOPtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Colocating for the first time. What do I need to know?English
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1 year agoYou’ll also need a security device like a firewall or router
This is one of the major reasons I’m moving to Proxmox. I’m going to virtualize OPNsense or pfSense and put everything behind that. I guess I should have said that I’ve host multiple dedicated servers over the decades, so from a security standpoint I’m pretty familiar. Really just trying to focus on the hardware side since this is the first time I will actually be responsible for managing and maintaining the hardware.
This is good info! I’ll follow up with the provider. Unfortunately even though I live in a large city, of the two dozen or so places I contacted only two of them would consider less than a half rack.
I had not considered this. My plan was to initially just swap the consumer grade stuff I have over to the 826 since it supports ATX, but now I’ll reconsider. Remote KVM has come in handy a few times with my dedicated servers over the years, so lacking that would suck pretty bad. I don’t know that I won’t have access, but several of the other providers stated on their websites that shared cabinets won’t have physical access (which I honestly would prefer since I’ll have several thousand dollars in hardware sitting in there).
Great point and I totally agree! Just didn’t want to walk in like a complete noob asking a bunch of dumb questions if I could prevent it.
Thankfully I’ve got quite a bit of experience hardening servers exposed directly to the internet. *knocks on wood* So far I’ve managed to not get pwned by turning on automatic security updates, keeping open ports limited to ssh with password/root login disabled and reverse proxying everything. If I need access to something that doesn’t need to be exposed I just port forward through ssh.