Ask HN: Steps for securing and configuring a new VPS?
I have been reading a lot about the necessary steps to take to prepare a secure and comfortable VPS LAMP site hosting environment from linode or digitalocean.
Google is full of articles and posts with recommended checklists but wondering if HN had a list or a resource a majority would agree on...
Some of the initial findings were the following:
1) Set up login with SSH keys for convenience
2) Update everything with sudo apt-get update
3) Change SSH port to 4437 or something like that
4) Install HTOP instead of TOP
5) Configure PHP to run as CGI with CGIWRAP (for security)
-- I am sure there are a dozen more steps we all take after provisioning a server - anybody have further suggestions or posts with good lists?
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