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Like mentioned in the title I want to work on my website in a Starbucks with Public wifi is there any risk of running a live server on public wifi?

Hanker00
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2 main risks:

1) Someone will be able to know what you are developing. So if that's your super secret project - you'd better not do that.

2) If your website has security issues - someone could upload a backdoor to your PC and steal your passwords or other valuable information. Also, if other users are supposed to use this website through public WiFi - data could be overheard by other users, so SSL is getting more important.

To enhance security you can:

  • Add basic HTTP authentication to your website. Work with SSL even on local server.

  • Add a firewall rule restricting access to this port from outside if that's possible.

  • Choose a random high port (>10000), so that it's a little bit harder to spot during routine port scan on known service ports.

  • Run a website inside VM to isolate it from your valuable data. You can forward port inside your VM.

BarsMonster
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  • Thank you so much for this. The project I am working on is running with Django and it is not a super secret project. Will look into adding basic HTTP authentication to the local server. – Hanker00 Mar 17 '19 at 03:03