Today I finished setting up my new dedicated server with Plesk, Softaculous, and got it set up to host PHP, Node, and .NET applications.
I also began rebuilding my websites and blogs, unifying my online personas.
What next?
Chainsaw sculpture.
I have my eye on a new chainsaw, ngl.
Stop staring at my new chainsaw!
I’m hoping to do this with my laptop 💻 and host my 1️⃣ 2️⃣ or 3️⃣ domains
Plesk is easy.
Easiest if you still use external DNS for your domains.
Still not so bad if you decide to be your own name server.
Give me a holler if you have any issues with that last part.
Unattended upgrades? iptables? ssh config lockdown?
I used to manage nearly a thousand websites running mostly on PHP and using parallels plesk. I grew to hate plesk. It doesn't respect system services, it overwrites them. It takes ownership of everything and forces you to do everything through plesk... and then fails to support everything you want to do.
Haven’t had any issues so far. I don’t like unattended upgrades, so I won’t be doing that. The reminder to check SSH configs is a good one though. I did set up 2FA for web login, etc and set the firewall up.
Backups. I need to get automatic backups going. 😬
We had customers who got cryptolockered and they encrypted the backups as well as the main system. So do something to prevent that.
Hmm. I was looking at an extension to dump backups to S3 compatible storage. I should be able to set up some sort of immutability depending on the vendor I think? 🤔
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