Basic VPS hardening tips from Privex

I’ve been a long time @privex customer for their awesome VPS service. Awesome uptime and very reasonably positioned price. When I said awesome uptime, I mean zero downtime and in fact the only downtime I had was due to Privex schedule upgrade maintenance.

I was looking back at the old mails and found an interesting security tips by Privex upon the VPS distribution to me few months ago which I has been ignored. Some really basic but essential tricks to implement on one VPS for security hardening:

Install fail2ban apt install fail2ban to block SSH brute force attacks

Move your SSH port above 10000, this prevents SSH brute force attacks causing network problems

Change your password using passwd

Update your system with apt update and apt upgrade -y

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