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Wei Hong
Wei Hong

Reputation: 53

Is it safe to share my lightsail instance public static IP

I wanted to save costs for my website launching for beginning stage. So I host my wordpress site at Lightsail. Then， I am using a S3 bucket to host static web and use the link from this bucket to redirect to the Lightsail public IP address. So that I will have at least a address with out just sharing IP address through my social media which unclickable in some platform.

May I know my practices is efficient enough or any better alternative. Is it unsafe to share out my instance IP address? If yes, what method can I use to improve the security of this method.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 372

Answers (1)

Marcin
Marcin

Reputation: 238131

If you just share IP you will end up with most browsers blocking your calls to the instance. The reason is that all your connections will be conducted in plain text using http. This is insecure and thus usually will be blocked by browsers.

To make your website properly usable over internet you need to use Https, which requires valid SSL certificate and your own domain.

Upvotes: 2

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