• catloaf@lemm.ee
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    Don’t expose anything to the Internet that you don’t absolutely have to. If you can, put everything behind a VPN gateway.

    Make backups. Follow the 3-2-1 rule.

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        I wouldn’t recommend putting ssh behind any vpn connection unles you have a secondary access to the machine (for example virtual tty/terminal from your provider or local network ssh). At best, ssh should be the only publicly accessible service (unless hosting other services that need to be public accessible).

        I usually move the ssh port to some higher number just to get rid of the basic scanners/skiddies.

        Also disable password login (only keys) and no root login.

        And for extra hardening, explicitly allow ssh for only users that need it (in sshd config).

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          Ssh behind a wire guard VPN server is technically more secure if you don’t have a key-only login, but a pain if the container goes down or if you need to access the server without access to wireguards VPN client on your device.

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            Highly recommend getting a router that can accept wireguard connections. If the router goes down you’re not accessing anything anyways.

            Then always put ssh behind the wireguard connections.

            For a homelab, there is rarely a need to expose ssh directly so best practice will always be to have multi layered security when possible.

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              Yeah it’s good to have a system separate from the main server. It’s always so frustrating having to debug wireguard issues cause there’s some problem with docker