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Using Fail2ban to Secure Your Server

Feb29

by Ike on February 29, 2024 at 4:17 am

Posted In: fail2ban, fail2ban configuration, Plesk, Releases, Server Security, Various

Protecting your server from malicious attacks is paramount in today´s digital landscape. Fail2ban, a robust log-parsing application, serves as a vigilant guardian, monitoring system logs for signs of automated assaults on your VPS instance. As you delve into this tutorial, you’ll gain insights into harnessing Fail2ban’s capabilities to fortify your server’s defenses. How Fail2ban Works When Fail2ban identifies and locates an attempted compromise using your chosen parameters, it will add a new rule to iptables to block the IP address from which the attack originates. This restriction will stay in effect for a specific length of time or on a…

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How to Avoid High CPU Load and Block Hackers and Bad Bots Effectively

Feb13

by Ike on February 13, 2024 at 2:14 pm

Posted In: CPU load, fail2ban, fail2ban configuration, Guides, Plesk, Plesk Cgroups Manager, Product and technology, Releases, security, server performance, Server Security

Some server operators find themselves battling with a high CPU load on their systems, which inevitably slows down website responses. The main cause of high CPU loads is often due to search engine crawlers and “bad bots”, which are essentially crawlers similar to search engines but do not serve any purpose for you. What bad bots do with the crawled data remains a mystery. Hackers also scan websites to identify the software being used to operate them. They do this to exploit any security vulnerabilities found in the software. In some cases, these scans may even attempt to access passwords…

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