Revision as of 16:53, 13 April 2016

Recommended Installs for your Unmanaged Cloud Server

Fail2Ban

Fail2Ban is a python written access prevention tool designed to stop connections to your server after a specified amount of connection attempts. Using iptables, it stops unauthorized SSH, FTP, etc.. attempts from brute-forcing your server.

Installation

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install fail2ban

or

sudo yum update
sudo yum install fail2ban

Configuration

cd /etc/fail2ban
sudo vim jail.conf

• [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fail2ban help.ubuntu.com is a great resource on how to configure your fail2ban conf file.

Plesk

Download the autoinstaller from their website:

wget http://autoinstall.plesk.com/plesk-installer

Add execute permissions to the autoinstaller:

   chmod +x plesk-installer

Launch the autoinstaller:

   ./plesk-installer

For more information, please refer to Plesk Installation guide.