Revision as of 17:13, 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.

FTP (vsftpd)

A very important tool for your server will be FTP (File Transfer Protocol). FTP will allow you and your users to upload and download files to and from your server using FTP programs such as Filezilla (see How to FTP to your server

Step 1: Install

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vsftpd

or

sudo yum update
sudo yum install vsftpd

Step 2: Configure

vim /etc/vsftpd.conf