If your server is open on the internet, you must have noticed a lot of failed SSH login attempts. If not then you can check that by using “sudo journalctl -u ssh.service | grep “Failed password“”. You will notice a lot of failed SSH login attempts. This shows that people are trying to login to your server using SSH but failing. In this tutorial, i… Read More »
A couple of days ago, i was just lying on the couch scrolling reels and suddenly i got a mail from my hosting provider stating that they has noticed a lot of unsuccessful SSH login attempts to my server. I panicked and realised that i forgot to configure Fail2ban on my server. I quickly checked /var/log/auth.log and ran journalctl -u ssh and found a huge… Read More »
Recently, i was working on improving my WordPress website’s performance and i found many blogs recommending to install various kinds of plugins. Yes, caching is very important and everyone must use it. But caching plugins only caches the js, css and html of your website. But we have another most important thing on our setup, which is database. When i digged deeper, i found out… Read More »