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  • The problem is a lot of people here are beginners and have no real clue about network security. And opening a port is opening a door. If you have a bouncer that clears people beforehand then you can keep the door open. But you will still need to keep your bouncer trained so he can take care of people you don’t want. Same with software. Keep it updated and have security enhancements in place like 2FA and analysis tools like crowdsec or fail2ban. And the open port might not an issue at all.

    But if you open a device like a NAS (cough QNAP cough) then you have a higher security risk.

    TLDR; if you know what you are doing it might not have implications.











  • Sure you can. The question is what are the exact specs and what do you want to self-host?

    I have two HP EliteDesk 800 Mini as a XCP-NG pool. Both with i5 6th gen only but with 64GB each and they run about 20 VMs distributed between both.

    Sure they won’t be able to perform large language model tasks but for most self-hosted services they are more than powerful enough.