00:00 Introduction
00:59 The what and why of virtual private servers
03:22 Connect to your VPS with SSH
05:14 Update package lists and upgrade packages
09:16 Change root password
09:56 Create a non-root user
1:08 p.m. Connection with SSH key
15:19 Disable password login
17:36 Disable root login
6:25 p.m. Network and firewall policy
7:11 p.m. Closure of unused ports
8:15 p.m. Change default SSH port
21:31 Restrict port access to a specific IP address
22:29 Enable and configure automatic updates
24:38 Thanks!
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Listen to Syntax Episode 730 – https://syntax.fm/show/730/own-your-own-paas
Github – generating a new SSH key – https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/connecting-to-github-with-ssh/generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the -ssh-agent
XKCD149 – https://xkcd.com/149/
Unattended Upgrades Reference – https://github.com/mvo5/unattended-upgrades?tabreadme-ov-file#supported-options-reference
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Terms and topics covered:
Terminal Emulator – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_emulator
SSH – Secure Shell – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell
VPS – Virtual Private Server – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_server
Brute force attack – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute-force_attack
Exploit – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploit_(computer_security)
Vulnerability – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulnerability_(computing)
Self-hosting – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting_(web_services)
Media Server – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_server
PaaS – Platform as a Service – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_as_a_service
Ubuntu – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu
Debian – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian
Principle of Least Privilege – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege
Superuser – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superuser
sudo – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudo
Public key cryptography – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography
gnu Nano – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_nano
port Computer network – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_(computer_networking)
Firewall – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall_(computing)
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Self-hosted services mentioned:
Awesome Self Hosted – https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
Media servers
Plex – https://www.plex.tv/
Jellyfin – https://jellyfin.org/
Emby – https://emby.media/
File Sharing
Nextcloud – https://nextcloud.com/
Password managers
Bitwarden – https://bitwarden.com/blog/host-your-own-open-source-password-manager/
Passbolt – https://www.passbolt.com/self-hosted-password-manager
Error tracking/monitoring
Sentinel – https://develop.sentry.dev/self-hosted/
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Self-hosted PaaS mentioned:
piku – https://github.com/piku/piku
dokku – https://dokku.com/
Kubero – https://github.com/kubero-dev/kubero
caprover – https://caprover.com/
coolify – https://coolify.io/
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Paas – Platform as a Service mentioned:
Vercel – https://vercel.com/
Netlify – https://www.netlify.com/
Heroku – https://www.heroku.com/
fly.io – https://fly.io/
Rendering – https://render.com/
Railway – https://railway.app/
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Hosted database providers mentioned:
AWS RDS – https://aws.amazon.com/rds/
PlanetScale – https://planetscale.com/
Neon – https://neon.tech/
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