Self Host 101 - Office Hours - Losing SSH Access, VPNs, Load Testing, Reverse Proxies and more!

In this video, CJ answers your questions and responds to your comments from the recent video in the Self Host 101 series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Y_g0wMwww 00:00 Intro 00:26 Places to get a cheap VPS 00:52 How do we find the public IP of a VPS? 02:24 Add more public keys to a server 03:41 What happens if we lose our private key? 05:03 Why use a .pem file vs ssh key? 07:52 Can we use a VPN to connect to a VPS? 10:01 How much load can a small VPS handle? 11:24 How to run a node app in production? 13:18 Use scp to copy files to / from a server 14:25 Add 2-factor auth to SSH login 16:05 Automatically block requests with fail2ban 17:45 Use ssh config to set port / user 19:36 Setting the mode of the authorized_keys file 22:12 HTTP Servers like Caddy 23:12 Reverse Proxies Explained 26:31 Protecting Sites with Cloudflare 27:38 Please Comment / Question 28:02 Self-host Sentry 28:40 Thanks! Places to get a cheap VPS - https://twitter.com/coding_garden/status/1770834001843957963 Private Networks - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network Public vs Private Networks explained - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPj_XrPbPUM pem files - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy-Enhanced_Mail OpenVPN - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVPN WireGuard - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WireGuard Load Testing Tools - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_load_testing Nuxt Production Deployment - https://nuxt.com/docs/getting-started/deployment scp - Secure Copy Protocol - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_copy_protocol scp on tldr - https://cheat-sheets.org/project/tldr/command/scp 2-factor Auth on Ubuntu - https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/configure-ssh-2fa YubiKey - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YubiKey Yubikey SSH - https://developers.yubico.com/SSH/ Yubiky OTP - https://developers.yubico.com/yubico-pam/ fail2ban - https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban ssh config reference - https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/ssh_config.5.html Caddy - https://caddyserver.com/ nginx - https://nginx.org/en/ Apache HTTP - https://httpd.apache.org/ traefik - https://traefik.io/traefik/ Caddy - Reverse Proxy - https://caddyserver.com/docs/quick-starts/reverse-proxy Cloudflare DNS - https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/ Self Hosted Sentry - https://develop.sentry.dev/self-hosted/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hit us up on Socials! https://www.syntax.fm/links Brought to you by Sentry - Use code "tastytreats" to get 2 months free - https://sentry.io/syntax #vps #ubuntu #selfhosted #guide