Privacy

7204 readers

6 users here now

A community for Lemmy users interested in privacy

Rules:

Be civil
No spam posting
Keep posts on-topic
No trolling

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

iopq@lemmy.world

Question about self-hosting SearxNG (lemmy.today)

submitted 3 weeks ago by hansolo@lemmy.today to c/privacy@lemmy.world

14 comments fedilink hide all child comments

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/35487250

I'm looking at self-hosting SearXNG. I have an old Win 11 machine and figure this might be the only way it can be useful.

Two questions I haven't seen answered so far:

I would be hosting on my own home network, which is on a VPN 24/7, but for added privacy my devices are sometimes on VPN connections to other IPs. So I need to know the external IP of the instance to be able to find it. Are there any added measures I should put in place to prevent randoms looking at IPs or port scanning from finding the instance and going to town?

If this is on my home network anyway, are there any risks of data leaking or triangulation of, say, referrals or image searches that would just point back to my home network?

My threat model is for big tech to leave me alone, so it's not exactly huge stakes, but I also don't want to bother self-hosting if added complexity makes it not worth it.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] JASN_DE@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The router VPN usually isn't the issue, as most devices behind it can communicate with each other. What would be the issue with running the service on that old machine and connecting locally, and via VPN while away from home? Would there be anything in your setup that won't work like that?

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago

Not really, but I think it's more about if the effort is worth it over all vs. just cycling a few public instances. I think I might end up going for that option instead.