Slicehost has great documentation too: http://articles.slicehost.com/




On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Ed <plug@0x1b.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 4:38 PM, R P Herrold <herrold@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
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