How to hurricane-proof a Web server

'I had enough to worry about as Hurricane Harvey plowed into the Texas Gulf Coast on the night of August 25 and delivered a category 4 punch to the nearby city of Rockport. But I simultaneously faced a different kind of storm: an unexpected surge of traffic hitting the Space City Weather Web server. This was the first of what would turn into several very long and restless nights.' -- source: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/how-to-hurricane-proo... Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/

On Fri, 8 Sep 2017 14:57:11 +1200, Peter Reutemann wrote:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/how-to-hurricane-proo...
Came across this bit: The box runs Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS and is “unmanaged”—that is, there is no cPanel or other “easy mode” admin tool installed. This minimizes the server’s attack surface and also helps save resources.
participants (2)
-
Lawrence D'Oliveiro
-
Peter Reutemann