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How To Protect SSH with Fail2Ban on Ubuntu 22.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Protect SSH with Fail2Ban on Ubuntu 22.04

Fail2ban is a service that can be run on your server to dynamically block clients that repeatedly fail to authenticate correctly with your services . This can help mitigate the affect of brute force attacks and illegitimate users of your services. In this guide, we’ll demonstrate how to install and configure fail2ban to protect SSH on an Ubuntu 22.04 server.

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Recommended Steps for New FreeBSD 10.1 Servers — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Recommended Steps for New FreeBSD 10.1 Servers

When setting up a new FreeBSD server, there are a number of optional steps you can take to get your server into a more production-friendly state. In this guide, we will go over some of the most common examples. We will cover how to create a firewall that denies most traffic, ensure that your server’s time zone accurately reflects its location, and set up NTP polling to keep the server’s time accurate. Finally, we will demonstrate how to add some extra swap space to your server.

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How To Install and Secure Memcached on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Secure Memcached on CentOS 7

Memory object caching systems like Memcached can optimize backend database performance by temporarily storing information in memory, retaining frequently or recently requested records. In this guide, we will cover how to protect your Memcached server by binding your installation to a local or private network interface and creating an authorized user for your Memcached instance.

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