Your VPS server needs to be secure if you want to protect yourself from virtual crime. As they say, prevention is better than cure, so you should keep your VPS server protected as early as possible. It’s not that hard to protect your UK Linux VPS host. In this article, I’ll illustrate the five most basic steps you need to take in order to protect your VPS Server.

Firewall

A firewall can keep unauthorized users and other harmful viruses out of your VPS UK and Windows VPS host. You can also add Config Server Firewall (CSF), System Integrity Monitor (SIM), Network Socket Inode Validation (NSIV), and Linux Environment Security (LES) if you want to protect your server more. If you have installed a firewall, then it is necessary to open up extra ports to add new services or programs.

Root Kit Hunter Installation

A Root kit hunter is a very useful security scanning tool that is used to scan for Trojans, root kits, backdoors, local exploits and other security problems. You can use it to detect any flaws in your UK VPS Server hosting service. If you want to install a root kit hunter, the following steps need to be followed.

a. With your SSH as root, log in to your server. [root@support007 ~]# cd /usr/local/src/

b. Download latest RKHunter Version [1.3.2] [root@support007 ~]# wget rkhunter.1.3.2.tar.gz

c. Extract files [root@support007 ~]# tar -xzvf rkhunter-1.3.2.tar.gz

d. [root@support007 ~]# cd rkhunter-1.3.2

e. [root@support007 ~]# ./installer.sh

f. Choose the feature on RKHunter that will send you daily emails of scan reports. [root@support007 ~]# pico /etc/cron.daily/rkhunter.sh By following these steps, you can successfully install a root kit hunter.

/tmp partition security

Since they can work out of any propagate themselves, /tmp is used by most of the attacks and exploits. You can protect yourself from such attacks by mounting /tmp with stops, namely “noexec” and “nosuid”, which can make sure that executables can’t be run from /tmp without escalated privileges. This can be done by putting none /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 in “/etc/fstab”. After you do this, you just need to save the file and reboot the VPS hosting UK.

ModSecurity Installation.

ModSecurity is an open source intrusion detection and prevention engine for web applications and helps in preventing attacks on programs that would be vulnerable; it acts as a powerful shielding application from attacks. ModSecurity supports both branches of the Apache web server.

PHP suEXEC

A PHP usually executes as the user or group (normally “apache” or “nobody”) when it runs as an Apache Module. On the other hand, Apache is supplied with suexec, which allows executing CGI scripts as the user they belong to, instead of Apache’s user. Sometimes you may share serves with other users, and you can better protect yourself from them with these features in case they put in CGI content.

You can prevent external and internal infections in your VPS hosting UK by making use of the tips outlined here. There are numerous viruses, Trojans and root kits on the internet that can damage your precious and expensive data or hardware. You can save your money and time by securing your VPS Server easily.