On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 07:44:04AM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: > On 01/10/14 01:36, agrquinonez wrote: > ... > [compromised box] > ... > > Ideas are going to be really appreciated, because i am not a technical guy. > > ok, this is the unpopular answer, but here it is anyway: > Stop. You should not be running your own web and mail server.
It unpopular because it stupid. Why give people a tool and then forbid them to use it? More wisely to advise RTFM, to read ULSAH4E or something like. > > Years ago, I used to say that I could make a good case that anyone > running a mail server or DNS server should require a license, for much > the same reason as one should have a driver's license to drive on public > roads: to indicate you have some minimum level of skill so you don't > hurt others on the road. (NOT that I would in any way welcome more > government involvement in the Internet). You exaggerate. DNS, mail- and web-server do not pose a direct physical danger to human. Your analogies are wrong and unbalanced. Self-hosting bring to countless positive outcomes like privacy protection and independence from corporations. You advise people to give up their freedom. Please stop it! > > (I've run mail servers for around 35,000 users and maybe a hundred > domains, and DNS for hundreds of domains...I'd consider myself BARELY > sufficiently skilled to pass my hypothetical license requirement. I'm > also probably better than 80+% of the people running DNS and e-mail > systems in the Corporate World. Be scared.) Of course, you were born with all of these skills..
