Hi guys, I am thinking of selling my old server which until now I have been using as a mini home lab. But now that I have a dedi on hetzner, I don’t really see the point of keeping it around. What do you guys use your home lab for and why do you prefer it over cloud hosting?
The police can’t take a local server with them?
At the least you would know it’s happening and that you’ve been compromised. A hoster might also be inclined to be a lot more accommodating than you are. And mass information requests do happen. You wouldn’t even be targeted if you host locally. The privacy advantages are numerous
They can, but I can encrypt it so they won’t be able to access anything
You may want to have a dead man’s switch so that the server shuts down without your intervention, or there’s the possibility that a forensic team could retrieve the encryption key in RAM through some physical attacks.
Usually the cops raiding homes just take the stuff to some lab. Not saying such an attack is impossible but I don’t think that’s high up in my risk assessment.
they can, but you sure will know something happened and you can take precautions, like encrypting the drives