https://srdusr.com/tags/self-hosting/Recent content in Self-Hosting on srdusrHugoen-usThu, 03 Sep 2026 07:34:43 +0200https://srdusr.com/blog/a-git-server-is-two-packages/Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://srdusr.com/blog/a-git-server-is-two-packages/<p>A git forge is a large piece of software. Gitea, Forgejo and GitLab all give you issues, pull requests, accounts and CI, and all of them want hundreds of megabytes of memory to do it.</p> <p>If what you want is somewhere to <code>git clone</code> from that is not GitHub, you need none of that. <code>git</code> already ships a server. nginx already speaks CGI. The whole thing is two packages and one location block.</p>https://srdusr.com/blog/hardening-a-small-server/Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://srdusr.com/blog/hardening-a-small-server/<p>A single virtual machine running a couple of small sites does not need a security programme. It needs about a dozen specific changes, most of which take a minute each.</p> <p>Two of them look finished when they are not, and those two are worth more attention than the rest combined. They are at the end.</p> <h2 id="start-with-the-front-door">Start with the front door</h2> <p>Key-only SSH, no root login, and a firewall that rejects by default.</p>