minus-squareswab148@lemm.eetoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Do I really need a firewall for my server?linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 days agoNo, but putting a bunch of those services behind a reverse proxy would lower the amount of open ports. It would also have the side effect of making firewall configuration easier, since you don’t need rules for all those ports anymore. linkfedilink
minus-squareswab148@lemm.eetoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Do I really need a firewall for my server?linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·10 days agoSounds like you could use a reverse proxy. linkfedilink
No, but putting a bunch of those services behind a reverse proxy would lower the amount of open ports. It would also have the side effect of making firewall configuration easier, since you don’t need rules for all those ports anymore.