Tips for self-hosting

Security levels of hosting methods

This section gives a list of methods in which ways it is possible to setting up own services and describes its advantages and disadvantages. Besides that, it gives information about which threats are higher or lower by using the corresponding method. We distinguish between 6 threats[0]:

Using services on free service providers (e.g. wordpress.com)

DESCRIPTION

Advantages

Disadvantages

Hosting services on a free web hosting service

Hosting services on a paid web hosting service

Hosting services on a paid virtual-private server

Hosting services on a paid physical server ("root server")

Hosting services on a paid managed server

Hosting services on your own in more secure location

[0] https://ssd.eff.org/risk/threats