Best practices on cloud VPS, dedicated servers, Linux and DevOps.
A freshly provisioned VPS is an exposed Linux box that bots probe within minutes. This checklist walks through the first 30 minutes on a new Ubuntu or CentOS server — updates, a non-root user, SSH hardening, firewall, fail2ban, swap and automatic patching — with the exact commands for each distribution.
Read more →A public VPS starts getting scanned within minutes of coming online. This guide sets up the three defences that stop almost all of it: a default-deny firewall, hardened key-only SSH, and Fail2ban — plus the difference between your provider's network firewall and the one running on the box.
Read more →Two VPS plans can list identical specs and behave nothing alike, because the virtualization layer underneath is what really matters. This guide explains KVM full virtualization, OpenVZ/LXC containers and the Proxmox management platform, with a side-by-side table and a plain rule for reading any VPS offer.
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