Written in bash?! Superb effort but I can’t help wondering why you’d choose bash?

Which everyone will ignore.

Caddy with the cloudflare module makes TLS with DNS verification insanely simple

https://github.com/caddy-dns/cloudflare

Nah, he has said he’s not a spy so it can’t be him

Do websites come under the remit of self hosting?

Personally I host static websites with GitHub, cloudfront, netlify, onrender etc. Trivial to setup, more reliable and better cdn distribution. Anything dynamic lives in a data center rather than a self host setup.

Fair, but you were asking how people approach security for self hosted solutions and I guess I’m challenging why anything needs to be public. Self hosting is typically for your own services which can usually be hidden behind a VPN.

The exception I guess is email, but I never understand why people attempt self hosted mail servers

Don’t expose anything publicly, instead setup wireguard for every VM. Connect your phone, PC etc to the VPN so you have full access without publicly exposing anything.

You may have touched on this but your post was way too long so I only read the headings

I think zero matches means “we weren’t able to find any suitable ads so we don’t give a fuck about you”

It would be more useful to see metrics weighted per active user it’s trivial to update a server if it’s just for yourself, and likewise it’s easy to let it lag a few versions behind.

What’s more relevant is the version number the large instances are running

Indeed, that’s why I use the AGPL license. Corporations hate it because it forces them to give back.

That’s actually pretty reasonable. I’d be happy to make my open source projects compliant for a company - but they can damn well pay me for the effort.

Why do so many projects ignore semantic versioning? It’s so much easier to comprehend changes when versions are major, minor or patch

You’re a very strange person.

No, neither of us need to do anything.

Dude, you’re the one asserting that healthcare costs will rise due to increased security requirements.

I don’t quite follow why the onus is on me to backup my retort.

please show me.

Nah, I’m good. Clearly our opinions differ. It’s of no interest to me to collate a bunch of sources just for you to dismiss in bad faith.

Feel free to find sources to support your own argument though if you like.

If they could squeeze out an extra dollar then they would already do so. They don’t need to justify it as “increased security costs”.

Isn’t it always said that jurys are made up of people not smart enough to get out of jury duty.

What a terribly written article. I got half way through and just gave up.

Flattr was such a good concept, it’s so disappointing it never caught on