Globalization has made cyberattacks much easier 🙁 unfortunately. As a result, you may not want certain countries to visit your site if you mainly get malicious traffic from specific countries that overload your server and slow it down. In this tutorial we will be configuring nginx to use the latest GeoIP database and blocking a … Learn more…
For privacy and vanity reasons you can add custom DNS nameservers using Cloudflare. This tutorial will show you how to add the custom nameservers to Cloudflare and how to get the IP addresses of these new nameservers so you can add them as glue records to your DNS registrar (where you purchased the domain). If … Learn more…
If you forbid certain paths or URLs with nginx to protect content you may want to use fail2ban to ban these 403 requests nginx captures. For example if you have renamed your login page using a plugin then typically the hacker bots will receive a 403 forbidden error when trying to log in. Similarly if … Learn more…
When running your own VPS, security updates are critical for stability. I have shown how to configure automatic security updates on Debian and now it’s time to do it for CentOS. CentOS provide a flag for applying security updates, when combined with yum-cron we can schedule security updates to be automatically installed every day. Configure … Learn more…
Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS make stable and robust web servers. One critical advantage of using Linux over Windows is that you can upgrade software without having to reboot. The main exception to this is kernel upgrades which require reboots. KernelCare overcomes this limitation so you can maintain 100% uptime while running the … Learn more…