Fail2ban monitors log files for repeated authentication failures and blocks malicious IP addresses at the firewall layer. Running Fail2ban in a Docker container allows it to protect both host-level SSH access and containerized web applications like Nginx Proxy Manager without installing additional packages directly on the host system. Prerequisites The following items are required: How […]
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Buying and Setting Up a Hetzner Auction Server
This post documents the process of purchasing a used dedicated server from Hetzner Server Auction and configuring it as a hardened Ubuntu 26.04 system with RAID1 NVMe storage. The target hardware is an Intel i7-7700 with 1TB NVMe drives in software RAID configuration. Finding and Purchasing the Server Hetzner provides two tools for locating dedicated […]