How To Protect an Nginx Server with Fail2Ban on Ubuntu 20.04
In this guide, you will learn how to install `fail2ban` on a Ubuntu 20.04 server and configure it to monitor your Nginx logs for intrusion attempts. Fail2ban can significantly mitigate brute force attacks by creating rules that automatically alter your firewall configuration to ban specific IPs after a certain number of unsuccessful login attempts. This will allow your server to harden itself against these access attempts without intervention from you.
