Written by Shannon Dias
Hey fellow devs! 👋 If you've just provisioned a new bare-metal dedicated server (or even a high-end VPS), the default OS installation is not ready for production. Within minutes of coming online, bots will start hammering port 22. Furthermore, default Nginx and MariaDB configurations leave massive amounts of performance on the table. We've put together a massive 10-step tutorial over at FitServers that takes you from a blank Ubuntu 22.04 / CentOS 9 installation to a fully hardened, product...