Hello. I’m pretty new here. I just managed to get my Raspberry Pi setup at home to selfhost a simple website that will act as my portfolio for some art I do.

I’m using WordPress to make the content of the website, meaning it runs on Apache, MariaDB and MySQL in the background. It’s connected via port 80 since I don’t want to pay for SSL certificates to setup https. There will be no accounts or transactions happening on my website. I don’t have anything to manage my dynamic IP but I’ll figure that out later. I’ve deleted the default Pi user on the RPi.

Are there security issues I should address preemptively? I’m worried for instance that I am exposing my home network, making it easier for someone to breach into whatever is connected there.

Any tips on making sure my setup is secure?

  • PSoul•Lemmy@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 days ago

    Your first point is a good point. I guess it’s ok for now if my rough location is accessible. It’s not like my art is worth anything.

    Regarding upload speed, yeah I know it could become an issue but since it’s just a portfolio website, I don’t expect more than a dozen visits a month.

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      1 day ago

      scraping bots are expected to visit it, nowadays more than in previous years. a few of them are search engines, but there’s a lot of scraping for AI training, both on text and image data.