security

How To Host a Website Using Cloudflare and Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Host a Website Using Cloudflare and Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04

In this tutorial you will secure your website served by Nginx with an Origin CA certificate from Cloudflare and configure Nginx to use authenticated pull requests. The advantages of using this setup are that you benefit from Cloudflare’s CDN and fast DNS resolution while ensuring that all connections pass through Cloudflare. This prevents any malicious requests from reaching your server.

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How To Protect SSH with Fail2Ban on Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Protect SSH with Fail2Ban on Ubuntu 20.04

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 20.04 server.

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How To Secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on Debian 9 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Secure Apache with Let’s Encrypt on Debian 9

Let’s Encrypt is a Certificate Authority (CA) that provides an easy way to obtain and install free TLS/SSL certificates, thereby enabling encrypted HTTPS on web servers. In this tutorial, you will use Certbot to obtain a free SSL certificate for Apache on Debian 9 and set up your certificate to renew automatically.

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