March 17, 20188 yr I'm planning on running unRaid on a future server and I'm wondering if it's safe to run a public game server on a VM with bright game panel as a docker and also have a NAS-share where I store personal files. The most important files will also be on a online backup but I still want to know how big of a security risk it is and what a potential hacker could do.
March 17, 20188 yr Strange question. At this time i dont know any remote exploit for unraid or "a game server". But who knows whats tomorrow? You can do that and i would do that. But the risk is always the same. If someone hacks your windows machine (your desktop PC) via browser exploit, he (could)knows all your passwords and could acess litterally everything. So, how safe is ur normal browsing? Unraid shouldnt be exposed to the internet and youre fine (thats how i go with that) You can expose your VMs/Dockers to the internet. If you own the coca cola reciept i would store it in a cold storage... btw that paneel looks very dead Edited March 17, 20188 yr by nuhll
March 17, 20188 yr Author 10 minutes ago, nuhll said: Strange question. At this time i dont know any remote exploit for unraid or "a game server". But who knows whats tomorrow? You can do that and i would do that. But the risk is always the same. If someone hacks your windows machine (your desktop PC) via browser exploit, he (could)knows all your passwords and could acess litterally everything. So, how safe is ur normal browsing? Unraid shouldnt be exposed to the internet and youre fine (thats how i go with that) You can expose your VMs/Dockers to the internet. If you own the coca cola reciept i would store it in a cold storage... Thanks. That's nice to hear.
March 17, 20188 yr A few other words of advice: Avoid using the DMZ on your router. Only forward the ports needed to the device that needs it. Make sure that whatever username/password you use for accessing your shares isn't the same username/password you use to manage your game servers. (Honestly, I highly recommend using a unique username/password for accessing shares. Depending on your level of paranoia you can tell your desktop to remember it or not.) I don't know your level of technical expertise with networking, but you could consider VLANs (potentially complicated)... or if you will have two NICs on your server you could set up two physical networks (potentially less complicated). Either option could be set up in such a way that it isolates your game servers from the rest of your network to mitigate some of the risks. Both options could carry some additional costs if you don't already have the equipment available.
March 20, 20188 yr I would do it this way: Install unraid. On unraid you install a OS you like for your game server(s). All of your equipment is behind a router, i guess. Now only forward the ports needed to play the games to the unraid IP (or if you use br0 you could just use a seperate IP for your OS). This way you cant access unraid from outside. You only access the OS and the game itself from outside. I think good passwords and such things are standard. Or keep your software up2date (unraid, os, game server). Edited March 20, 20188 yr by nuhll
March 21, 20188 yr Author On 3/20/2018 at 4:01 PM, nuhll said: I would do it this way: Install unraid. On unraid you install a OS you like for your game server(s). All of your equipment is behind a router, i guess. Now only forward the ports needed to play the games to the unraid IP (or if you use br0 you could just use a seperate IP for your OS). This way you cant access unraid from outside. You only access the OS and the game itself from outside. I think good passwords and such things are standard. Or keep your software up2date (unraid, os, game server). I'm planning on running it thru Linux and using a motherboard with 2 10 gigabit inputs. I'm planning on passing all the game servers thru 1 of them and use the other one for files. Is there ANY benefit on having the different game servers on different VMs or would it just increase server resource use because you have to run multiple OS instances? Also, could you get a separate local IP for the game servers even if the 2 ports are together one network card? Edited March 21, 20188 yr by Dreamplay
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