Month: November 2021

Proxy through nginx frontend to the second virtual server wordpress

Proxy through nginx frontend to the second virtual server wordpress

In a situation where we have one public IP address and we have many domains directed to that IP address, it is worth considering spreading the traffic to other servers. Proxmox, which allows you to create a pair of virtual machines, is perfect in such a situation. In my case, each virtual machine is separated […]

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Increasing the security of the ssh service

Increasing the security of the ssh service

Nowadays, many bots or hackers look for port 22 on servers and try to log in. Usually, the login attempt is made as the standard linuxe root user. In this short article, I will describe how to create a user that will be able to log in as root and change the default ssh port […]

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iftop as a good network traffic monitoring tool

iftop as a good network traffic monitoring tool

iftop is a command-line tool for real-time network bandwidth monitoring. It displays a continuously updated list of network connections along with the amount of data transferred between them. Connections are shown in a table format and can be sorted by bandwidth usage. iftop provides various filtering options, allowing you to limit the output to specific […]

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Securely Copy Files (scp) tool to copying files by ssh

Securely Copy Files (scp) tool to copying files by ssh

A very good tool for securely copying files via the ssh protocol between machines is scp. It allows you to transfer files to the target machine as well as download from a given source. The tool is usually built into the system so it works on many distributions. Below I will present how you can send and download […]

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