>> Its exciting to see so many people interested in using Linux more and
>> more.  I am often asked about setting up a "small server" for web,
> Nice write up Jimmy, one other thing I do is to set the SSH listening
> port to be something non-standard. It is really just obscuring the fact
> SSH is there, but it stops all those logged intrusion attempts, and if
> you put the port up high, the server looks completely closed to incoming
> traffic on many port scans.

Why not use a VPN like openvpn / gvpe / pptp ?
You can just have sshd listen only to connections on the vpn.

And if you really need to have sshd on a public ip from time to time, you 
can use port knocking.
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