i just got my self a vps server as i have grown out of shared hosting. and i need to edite some of the server files ect. the server in umange. so i have to make sure everythink is all working ect is there anythink i need to now about running a server security ect i have neaver ran my own server before so i wan to now the sort of day to day taks i need to do and how its running on centos and lxadmin intill i get use to runing a server i may then get cpanel or directadmin when i now more on what i am doing thank you for your help this a big step for me
yes i look there did not find much in the vips fourm and i also did a search for vps security did not find much any other ideas ?
mutley, Take a look at this: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=468168 Some of it is not applicable to what you need as you don't have a control panel installed. I don't believe the tutorial goes over how to setup a firewall but you should learn how to do that. If you are not inclined to learn how to use IPTables, a nice firewall script that configures IPTables for you is APF which you can obtain at http://www.rfxnetworks.com Best of luck to you.