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How to Harden Your Linux VPS in 10 Minutes

The moment you spin up a fresh Linux VPS, the clock starts ticking. Within hours — sometimes minutes — your IP shows up in scanner logs and bots begin trying default credentials, common SSH usernames, and known web exploits. I've watched a brand-new server log over four thousand brute-force SSH

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How I Built byte-guard.net from Scratch on a Hetzner VPS

I wanted a security blog that I fully controlled — no managed platforms, no vendor lock-in, just a VPS and a stack I could understand end to end. This is how I built byte-guard.net from scratch on a Hetzner cloud server using Ghost, Nginx Proxy Manager, and Uptime Kuma, all