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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by festus@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

By 'Git instances' they mean Gogs instances that allow open registration. I know most of the community moved from Gogs to Gitea, and then to Forgejo, but thought this was still worth noting.

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[-] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

Any time you have a server willing to process random data uploaded from randos, just expect it to be compromised eventually and prepare for the eventuality by isolating it, backing it up religiously, and setting up good monitoring of some sort. Doesnt matter if its a forge, a wiki, or like nextcloud or whatever. It will happen.

[-] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

To anyone afraid of the above conclusion, a dedicated $5 VPS with automatic snapshots get you a long way.

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

if the server is compromised, all the data it stores is at risk of getting drleted or modified. so I don't think a VPS really solves the problem.

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