By Agusfn
I run my own website and am worried about the security concerns, this website will be commercial and will contain valuable information so I can’t risk any breach. I’ve read many of the digitalocean tutorials, i’ve set up the accounts, disabled password login to use only ssh, use sftp, disabled remote root login, enabled firewall, added fail2ban, etc.
The problem is that i am not aware on what it takes for a server to have a very solid protection, i am willing to buy management software (if it simplifies other stuff much better) or hire a server admin if necessary, i don’t expect it to cost a fortune tho, so this is pretty much my situation.
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If you are looking for Linux server management check this out Linux Server Management they provide server management including monitoring and security updates.
Perhaps you are worried too. If you choose a good VPS provider, security is nothing to worry about
Keeping a VPS up to date is no different from keeping any server up to date.
The simplest means to do this is to have a routine cron job which runs an automated update (though you should be somewhat wary of just blindly installing package updates on Prod servers without having verified them on Dev boxen).
For example, one of my servers (CentOS 6) has the following entry as root in its crontab:
@weekly yum -y upgrade
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