Someone's knocking on the door! Over the past week, I had my Friendica instance hammered by login attempts and bad bots. This is the process I used to track down the culprits, configure Fail2Ban, and set

Plesk is a popular web hosting control panel that offers simplicity, flexibility, and a range of powerful tools. But when it comes to web hosting, security is non-negotiable. Whether you're managing client

Fail2Ban is a free and open source intrusion prevention software tool written in the Python programming language that can be used to protects servers from different kinds of attacks. Fail2Ban works by

Preamble The Ansible role in question comes from Ansible Galaxy. It's linked here below, where you can read about it more if needs be: Here's my method for making use of the role, which is within the context

Preamble This is a very short post covering a rudimentary Ansible playbook (if you can even call it one) that contains tasks for installing Fail2ban in a straightforward manner. It's intended as a follow

Preamble A highly condensed set of basic commands to install Fail2ban the traditional way. These can be executed on any remote server/VPS running recent versions of Ubuntu; although the process was carried