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Is My SaaS Secure?

So there's a lot on security out there. But running a SaaS, is there a particular vector at risk?I currently regularly upgrade packages, and servers, run a firewall (UFW), have SSH only server access, and shortly adding Snort as an IPS and run code analysis on each PR.But rank order where's the risk and where should the focus be?

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Re:Can you LLM a custom language? on Thursday February 29, 2024 @03:03AM (#39547319)
Makes sense, thanks for this

Can you LLM a custom language?

If token limit and accuracy are important, it seems English (or other spoken languages) are no optimal.They're a butchered product of history and easy verbal noises.A new custom language seems inevitable, that is concise, unambiguous, rooted in relation with custom words. Replacing common sentences with simple strings such as "Once upon a time..." to "a1"Most likely alpha-numeric, to minimise...

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Re:My SaaS Journey from $1000/Mo Heroku to Home Server on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @04:48AM (#39535917)
This is a great option too.

I went for Hetzner in the end + Coolify

Re:My SaaS Journey from $1000/Mo Heroku to Home Server on Friday February 16, 2024 @06:41AM (#39395681)
Yeh, definitely worth looking into, and comparing to a business connection
Re:My SaaS Journey from $1000/Mo Heroku to Home Server on Friday February 16, 2024 @06:36AM (#39395648)
Thanks, I think over provisioning should reduce the chance of part failure.

Was also considering underclocking the CPU, but not sure if it would be helpful.

Re:My SaaS Journey from $1000/Mo Heroku to Home Server on Friday February 16, 2024 @06:34AM (#39395637)
Ace, thanks for this!

This is a great setup, and still sub 6 month payback. For comparison I have 2.5GB or less on my Heroku servers!

IP address management is definitely food for thought.

I might to a dry run with a PC and test, before investing in the full setup

Re:My SaaS Journey from $1000/Mo Heroku to Home Server on Friday February 16, 2024 @06:29AM (#39395609)
Ace, thanks, this is super useful
Re:My SaaS Journey from $1000/Mo Heroku to Home Server on Friday February 16, 2024 @05:55AM (#39395419)
I have 2x Web Dynos (Standard) and 2x Web Dynos (Performance). 2 x 2x standard Worker Dynos. Then 2 x DO 16GB 4 core CPU's.

Then have about $100 in excess cost on addons on Heroku (vs configing them directly)

Re:My SaaS Journey from $1000/Mo Heroku to Home Server on Friday February 16, 2024 @05:51AM (#39395389)
NUC's look interesting, thanks for this!

Yeh, bandwidth should be more than sufficient.

Agreed, looking at bleeding edge SDD's, seems a simple way to have a blazing fast DB. Even a 12 month payback works. We're feature complete so I could keep the setup without upgrades for some time

My SaaS Journey from $1000/Mo Heroku to Home Server

I have a production SaaS product, used by 1,000's a day.Server bills are $1,000/month. Heroku mostly and Digital Ocean.I'm thinking of moving to a home server, setting up 2 servers (a Staging + Production), with 4 raspberry PI 5's as worker servers.It seems I can get far better performance, with a < 3 Month payback period...What am I missing??Server spec:Server...

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How about (in order of most shocking):

- More people died in car crashes than wars

- That the healthcare system was built to cure already ill people, rather than prevent people from getting ill.

- That genetic diseases went untreated

Good one. It does seem inevitable we’ll always mean revert to scientific truth
New world order incoming…
Agreed, but will the be seen as ‘shocking’? It seems this human trajectory is expected
Re:The Largest Company in Europe on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @03:00AM (#37761769)
The largest publicly listed company in Europe, does pretty much one thing.

Effective weight loss.