As soon as you put a machine on the internet, people will start poking it for weaknesses. This is mainly done by people running scripts they got from elsewhere. It’s the equivalent of walking down a row of parked cars and trying the handles to see if any are unlocked. Most servers will just respond with a 404 Not Found error and on they walk to the next server. However, I thought I’d amuse myself with this
I have a menagerie of tech at home. Connectivity ISP Andrews & Arnold, who else? Not the cheapest, but a very high quality service. I have an embarrassing number of routable IPv4 addresses. Heracles The router. A GL-iNet Brume running a self built flavour of OpenWRT. My Wireguard endpoint for any VPN shenanigans. It got it’s name as it replaced my previous router that was called Cerberus. Gru, Bob, Dave, Kevin, Stuart A collection of GL-iNet Velica They were on offer on Amazon (I think £60 a pair) so I put OpenWRT on them and set up a mesh WiFi for the house.
I moved all of this to Hugo and self hosting yesterday from https://prose.sh. I love the idea of what https://pico.sh is doing. All driven through ssh/rsync, simple hosting of blogs and static pages, there is a lot to like about it. It does tick a lot of boxes for my inner geek. However….. There were two papercuts with prose.sh that grinded my gears. No subdirectories, so all files (posts & images) ended up in one directory.
I run HomeAssistant on some no-name fanless PC which has WiFi and Ethernet. I mainly access it over Ethernet, but it uses the Wifi to connect to my IOT SSID and expose its MQTT broker to the various Tasmota and ESP32 devices I have kicking around. The problem was that every now any then the Wifi would quietly crap out and all my devices would stop updating. I could do one of two things.