This is the time to move your website to something other than WordPress or use free themes. I genuinely don’t want anyone’s website to end up like this: Overpaying me after using illegal plugins (I wrote this)

That’s the point. It taught me things that I wouldn’t learn if it weren’t for that scared feeling. I agree that some sensitive things are better off my server.

You should start small and keep only things you want to be public, and services under basic logins. First logins, maybe admin admin but slowly you will get better and also place fail2ban and crowdsec. Once you have enough confidence and years of service on your belt. You can trust it with sensitive files under heavy guard.

I did that.

And rightfully so, I was a 15 year old in a third world country with a beat up compaq computer to download movies overnight. I couldn’t seed cuz my father would find out I wasted the internet.

Today, I can seed and have a 26TB hard drive, I preserve old movies in my native language (Telugu) and seed them.

Do we need people to learn about seeding and ratios? Definitely. But I believe in

Today’s leechers are tomorrow’s seeders.

And don’t blame them.