I've got a VPS, now what M's should I RTF?

[Ed]

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 4:38 PM, R P Herrold <herrold at owlriver.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Aug 2011, Steven wrote:
>
>> As I do consider RTFM do be a decent answer, does anyone have some
>> preferred, "How not to be an idiot with your new VPS," guides?
>
> harden it, take backups so you can get back online with a baseline image
>
> http://www.pmman.com/usage/hardening/
>
> -- Russ herrold

what Russ said +1
transition sshd to listening on a high/non-standard port +1
AIDE (or tripwire or samhain) done from a remote system +1
    http://www.deer-run.com/~hal/sysadmin/FIA-via-SSH.html