XMission Control Panel/Server Tab/Recommended Installs

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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
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