The fantastic future of computers
Stephen Frey @ Pindex
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Not a new laptop, a new OS
I took my old MacBook Pro (Intel) and upgraded it with a version of Arch Linux, Omarchy. It's beautiful, easy to use, and all based on Arch. It's also a system designed to be the system to use when moving from Windows or Mac to Linux. In two weeks you will learn to love Omarchy 4.0.
Securing a web facing VPS/VM
Setting up a VM or a VPS is easy. But you need to make it secure, and that is hard. Here we discover 2 of the basic tools UFW and Fail2ban. This post is about setup, making it safe and secure and the results running for a day. This is the first step when setting up a new web facing VM or a VPS.
Private Domain with Technitium
To use friendly names instead of IPs. Set up a Private Domain with Technitium. We set up a Domain Name Server ns1 and configure it to handle our domain, example.com or mylab.lan. Options for later: DHCP, a cluster with at least ns1 and ns2 for redundancy, and add ad-blocking if that's needed.
Security for SSH
SSH is the quintessential tool for server administration. But, most servers and VPS are installed with less than optimal settings for SSH. We don't want root to be able to log in, it's a security vulnerability. We don't want to allow the use of passwords for nobody to log in to our servers/VPS.