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by SturgeonsLaw 1769 days ago
I would recommend you put it behind Cloudflare, it will mask your home IP address and will absorb any attacks

https://skylar.tech/create-fast-websites-from-your-home-netw...

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Please don't do that. It's a terrible idea because CloudFlare will then get to decide who gets to see your website or not (and CloudFlare hates privacy tech like Tor), and also because then CloudFlare will terminate the HTTPS (TLS) connection on their side so they essentially get to know all your passwords.

I've selfhosted on 64Kbit/s modem then xDSL for years without a problem (apart from bots trying default passwords). If you are really afraid you'll run into DDOS attacks and whatnot, consider using a small 2-5$/mo VPS as reverse-proxy instead of CloudFlare to retain control of your infrastructure.