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Re:Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your... by motorest on Sunday June 08, 2025 @03:42AM (#44215365)
> Why do you need to update docker?

For starters, addressing security vulnerabilities.

https://docs.docker.com/security/security-announcements/

> I kept my box running for more than 1 year without upgrading docker.

You inadvertently raised the primary point against self-hosting: security vulnerabilities. Apparently you might have been running software with known CVEs for over a year.

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Re:Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your... by danparsonson on Sunday June 08, 2025 @07:43PM (#44220194)
Much of this risk is mitigated by hiding everything behind Wireguard or similar. None of my self-hosted stuff is publicly exposed but I can reach it from anywhere. You can go one step further and run some kind of gateway OS (e.g. opnSense) on a separate cheap VPS, route everything through that, then firewall your main server off completely.
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