Well, not so much afraid, but I have set up a naked ForgeJo server in France. It’s secure, but has no firewall blocks. It’s got a decently large git repo on board for bots to get lost in. I don’t have a lot of tolerance for bots on my personal or work sites. I care little enough about the info here that I’m happy to let the bots slurp it all up. Besides, it’s just a mirror of the Rust programming language repository from GitHub.
I’ll also use the ForgeJo instance for my own deeply-public info (probably reworks of data files). I don’t have a ton of personal use for git these days.
The server is a little KS-C from OVH. CAD20 per month for the next three months will hold me over until I can spin up another virtualisation server. As usual, the day after I buy in, a better one comes online for a comparable price. The next one I get has to have vRack access, though — I need it to properly handle the netblocks across multiple servers in clustered mode. One node in Canada, the other in France.
The reason for the French node is to get a sense of how threats differ between geographic locations. The “conventional wisdom” is that they don’t at all “because the Internet is global”, but I’ve already proven that wrong to my satisfaction. Some threats are shared, but others are significantly different. That latter category is the much larger one, too.