Setting up a personal site on local hardware has been on my bucket list for along time. I finally bit he bullet and got a basic website running with apache on a Ubuntu based linux distro. I bought a domain name, linked it up to my l ip got SSL via lets encrypt for https and added some header rules until security headers and Mozilla observatory gave it a perfect score.
Am I basically in the clear? What more do I need to do to protect my site and local network? I’m so scared of hackers and shit I do not want to be an easy target.
I would like to make a page about the hardware its running on since I intend to have it be entirely ran off solar power like solar.lowtechmagazine and wanted to share technical specifics. But I heard somewhere that revealing the internal state of your server is a bad idea since it can make exploits easier to find. Am I being stupid for wanting to share details like computer model and software running it?
Since you’re using Ubuntu you can probably sign up for Ubuntu Pro, free for personal use last I checked. This provides you with additional security updates. (I would suggest using the LTS branch)
Look into hardening your os and apache installation. Such as using certificate based authentication exclusively for SSH.
Put this box on a separate network (such as a DMZ).
Create regular backups and do recovery drills to insure it’s working as expected.