The one about rebuilding my VPS

So I have this VPS which is basically the thing which hosts the website you’re reading this on. The VPS also hosts other applications so security is a concern of mine since access is entirely remote. I do have fail2ban installed though. Although I’m getting better at it I mucked about with my /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and configured the daemon to liste on a non-standard port. I then promptly forgot to add an iptables entry to allow traffic on this port, essentially locking myself out of the VPS....

Setup SSL using NGINX

This post is about how I set up nginx and started serving pages over ssl after requesting an SSL certificate using acme.sh Apart from securing the instance, these instructions assume a fresh install and that I am logged in as user who is a member of the sudo group. If you see a command prefixed with # assume I am either logged in as root, or prefixed the command with sudo....

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