Elena Rossini (@_elena@mastodon.social) is a journalist who’s gotten into the fediverse and self hosting with Yuno Host. She’s documented it on her blog. It’s worked out really well for her.

This is super cool! You really get a lot just by making a FE for the lemmy API. Good work! 👍

I have dynamic dns through cloudflare that provides a proxy ip address for me in addition to some protections.

After that I use a reverse proxy to route specific domain names to services. My router is set up to forward only ports 80 and 443 to that reverse proxy, so there’s a good layer of safety there. There could be a weakness on the router, but at this point traffic is pretty limited.

After that, at least for your service, if you can have some control or throttling of signings and be more selective about who you let in, then that could help.

I say do it. Sure there’s risk someone could put something on there you don’t want, but I wouldn’t say it’s big enough to not do it.