So far, my self-hosting has been limited to Pi-Hole, and a static website. I now want to try out something new, an Immich server.
I have a static IP from my ISP, so I don’t need to rent out a VPS. However, given that this IS a home internet, I want to be extra sure that it is going to be secure.
In my existing website, I use Fail2Ban + BadBotBlocker + Anubis + Nginx rate limits to protect it from scrapers, bots and malicious users, and it works well. With photos (especially family photos) at stake, I just want to know more on how to protect my server.
Add: thanks for the helpful replies. I will be sharing the photos with family, many of whom live abroad.
assuming that you’re to expose that to the Internet, my recommendation is to deploy only
complicate the setup too much and it’s going to rather be more painful to maintain and also much easier to misconfigure.
The WAF covers OWASP Top 10 so that should give you around 70% protection which is still better than nothing