Hi, Don't take this the wrong way--it's great you want to do this yourself and ensure it's secure and rely on your own knowledge and efforts to secure the server, but there's an incredible amount more than just keeping up to date on software and informed of security issues/alerts. You should hire on a qualified server administrator to properly install (optimally), configure and maintain the server until you have obtained the skills to do this yourself.
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