.env is only visible for server

so i dont have to worry about saving plain data on it without encryption ?

Yes Bro it is Fully secure

As it is necessary for the rote

Ight thanks

ehh no that's a bad practice.
..unless the env variables are meant to be public. firebase does this.

But make sure to not put anything that should be private in the env file, AND have it in the repo.
Keeping the repo private may be safer, but still avoid it.

its not a repo, i use spaceship and its a shared hosting, they don't have environment variable and the cs told me to just put it in the root of the project, ik its a security risk i just dont know if i should encrypt it, since it has database connection and many other stuff that has to be encryptyed or hidden

if the file is only visible on the server then people can still have access to it no ?

I haven't used spaceship and idk how it works, but they probably have separate VMs or containers?

"There is no special directory for it. Our shared hosting servers have a basic setup with the user level of access"

i will ecrypt it anyway but is it gonna damage performance ? if not what should i use to encyrpt it ?

Yeah I couldn't find any docs either. Really shady.

But with correct configuration it should be secure

Encryption technically won't work because you'd need the key in the code anyway

my plan now is to include tghe env file outide the publics foldier

but im not sure if i can still make it accceasble from the projects

What stack are you using?

Why not deploy on vercel?

its for my client he has 1 more wordpress website and wants everyhting to be together

nextjs typescript

along with mysql

I'm no security expert, so I can't give any reliable advice

But if the data isn't critical/sensitive you should be fine

What does the site do?

its pretty much a static page for a groups of campant, but they had issues with there previous maintainer where they neevr added new datas to the webiste, so i made it dynamic with mysql, the point of the webiste is to showcase there companies and proejcts

the creds i have is mysql creds along with googledrive for image storage, aswell as SMTP

Uhhh what
Why do you need a database for that

to add and remove projects or there comapnies

edit etc

How many would there be?

A dozen?

around 25

That's very small

and each has like datas o it

Okay, how much ?

depends

I'm pretty sure you don't need a database, google drive for that amount of data

i did a dashboard aswell to perform crud operation, i trained one of there employee

it also stored 3 langauge in the db

The SQL database is also stored locally in the shared server?

so each data is stored 3 times in each langauge

yep

That's fine

So the sensitive part is google drive keys?

Service account, whatever they call it

yep

and the STMP

SMTP?

its a mail service combined with nodemailer

SMTP*

Ditch google drive, store images locally

Make a makeshift admin panel to edit data

And obfuscate the SMTP credentials

Although if someone gets access, obfuscation won't do shit

when i spoke with there custom support they said they dint support file uplaoding via the dashboard so idk 🥲

the imgs and stuff is uplaoded via the dashbaord

Wha??

Lol

for now all i wanna is host the webiste i have already migreated the database from postgresql to mysql im tired from this 🥲

Why would you do that..?

ikr i dont know itsa weird fkin thing

becuase it doesnt support postgresql [KEKWIGGLE](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/877623036185026641.gif?size=48&animated=true&name=KEKWIGGLE)

You can't make an API endpoint to get files?

and that mf said i want everything to be together since i dont know shit

Wut..

Obviously

Should have just gone with firebase or the likes

the hosting service doesnt support postgresql else if the hosting was up to me i had already hosted the webiste via the vercel for 2 month and it was working like a charm

but they had to make it difficult

🫂🫂

I get it. It's just absurd

i was done 2 months ago if it wasnt for there shit request🥲

now i just wanna secure the env somehoiw and say bye to it [KEKWIGGLE](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/877623036185026641.gif?size=48&animated=true&name=KEKWIGGLE)

Vercel has postgress free tier too ?

free for lifetife via neondb

Eh just don't.

Tell them the drawbacks of shared hosting.

well you gotta pay if the data reachs its limit

but pretty much yea its free on most of the ways they proivede

and really good for debugging and performance check

Whose decision was it to choose spaceship?

their decision

Yeah so tell them the drawbacks. Let them deal with it

i mean i dont wanna tlak with them they dint know shit about it,

and probably think imscamming them

Don't get yourself a headache for their decisions lol

okay i know if they dont liisten i dont know what to do [YanfeiHMM](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/837056665449660426.webp?size=48&name=YanfeiHMM)

i will just put the env file seperatly as in a private fodler and see how it goes during testing

i doubt the webiste will have many visitor anyway

i just dont wanna migrate the databse again uk i have been through alot already [crisps](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/913704623355867166.gif?size=48&animated=true&name=crisps)

and im not getting paid for any of it so

Nvn i somehow forgot its not required during run time