I use my searxng instance several times a day.

DNS server/cache/pihole. If that goes down I can’t browse anything.

I also selfhost a SaaS that I built. It’s essential to me that it’s available to my customers although I don’t use it personally.

Ehh, it’s ok in the case of JetBrains - if your subscription lapses your license converts to a ‘perpetual fallback license’ so can just continue using the version you installed when the subscription was originally purchased.

I’m using a 4 year old version of PhpStorm with no issues and no subscription. My PyCharm sub ended 6 months ago and I’m staying on the 2023 version of PyCharm because the latest version comes with lots of AI which makes my CPU fans scream continuously.

After X attempts to log in, it bans the IP address.

It will scan your wordpress files and alert you if any of them have changed in suspicious ways (hacked).

It can disable the xml-rpc endpoint which is rarely used and is a big vector for hacking.

… and a lot more but those are the main ones for me.

There are not as many sysadmin job these days because so many on-prem deployments have moved to the cloud. Consider becoming a cloud version of a sysadmin (whatever they’re calling it now…). Every platform offers lots of free learning resources and has a certification process.

The WordFence plugin is a must-have for security.

If you use Caddy instead of Apache then you get SSL automatically. You’ll need php-fpm as well, tho.