Techniques for Better Host Preservation
Most hosting companies offer a dashboard that allows you to see resource usage over a particular period. This will allow you to understand, at a glance, whether anything weird is happening on your VPS. With SSD Nodes, you will see these details in your client area. Just go through the server you’re interested in, and then discover the “Usage Statistics” link Monthly Server Management.
Most Linux distributions update fairly regularly. Of the three operating systems we offer—Ubuntu, Debian, and CentOS—Ubuntu changes frequently, with Debian and CentOS favoring a far more conservative approach to adopting new software versions across the board. But all three os development teams are quick to produce patches for known security flaws. By not regularly updating your operating system’s packages, you may be leaving your VPS susceptible to attackers. Luckily, upgrades are very easy on these systems!
When updating your services, don’t forget about whatever else you’ve installed together with them, such as for instance plug-ins for a WordPress blog. All of the vulnerabilities to WordPress blogs result from outdated or poorly-coded plug-ins. At this time, the WordPress codebase is pretty secure, but they do not make guarantees about any plug-in. And many of them are written by individuals who, simply put, shouldn’t be writing code that gets executed on other people’s servers.
Remember that you don’t have a copy plan unless it’s automated and you know it’s working. In the event that you dump your files somewhere but don’t understand how to restore them and get your VPS up and running again, it’s not just a backup. It’s only a number of files.
Take some time to test your server’s files are increasingly being accurately replicated at the backup destination. Nothing is worse than trying to recuperate from the catastrophe, only to appreciate your backup system fell through six weeks ago.
Make sure your services can gracefully handle shutdowns/downtime
This one is a little more advanced, but required for anyone running a service on their VPS that’s meaningful to them. A small business website will be a good example, or perhaps a self-hosted email solution — basically, anything you wouldn’t want to go offline for more than a few minutes.
Let’s say there is a rare unplanned downtime at the info center in which your server is hosted. Your server is forced to turn off during the maintenance. When things are fixed your server boots up. Do you know if your services will begin back up again, and work properly, without your manual intervention?
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