Security
Regular Security Maintenance Tasks for VPS Admins
Set up a weekly/monthly schedule for updates, log reviews, backups testing, and security audits to keep your VPS secure.
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Security best practices and advisories.
Set up a weekly/monthly schedule for updates, log reviews, backups testing, and security audits to keep your VPS secure.
Protect your REST APIs with authentication, rate limiting, input validation, HTTPS, and API gateways.
Prepare a step‑by‑step plan to handle a compromised VPS: detection, containment, eradication, recovery, and post‑mortem.
Learn how to mitigate DDoS attacks with rate limiting, SYN cookies, cloud scrubbing, and Hostxpeed features.
Harden PHP configuration to prevent code execution, information leaks, and common web attacks.
Use Lynis to perform automated security audits and generate hardening suggestions for your VPS.
Collect, parse, and visualise security logs from your VPS using the ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana).
Proactively find security holes in your VPS using OpenVAS (full vulnerability scanner) and Nmap (port/OS detection).
Protect your email domain from spoofing and improve deliverability by setting up DKIM, SPF, and DMARC records.