Securing your new Self-Managed VPS

When you have provisioned your new Self-Managed VPS, it is critically important to secure it sufficiently to minimise the potential for it to be hacked. By ensuring it is secure, you protect both your data and our network from malicious use.

Our Recommendations

Some of the steps you should take to secure your VPS include:

Some of the steps you should take to secure your VPS include:

• Installing a firewall. (CSF, UFW, firewalld)
• Lock down ports that are not being used.
• Set a strong password, consider disabling password root logins in favour of SSH-key access only.
• Configure your web server (Apache/LiteSpeed/Nginx) and PHP appropriately.
• Update your kernel and all RPMs.

These are just a few of the steps you should take, but there are many more. If you’re unfamiliar with securing a VPS and you need help, please contact our Technical Support Team, who can secure and configure servers where cPanel/WHM and a Server Management Job have been purchased.