"I just rented a $5 droplet and ran apt install nginx" is fine for a hobby project. Production needs the boring work done correctly: SSH hardened, firewall configured, fail2ban active, automatic security patching, log shipping, and a backup strategy that's been tested by actually restoring once.
root@server:~# ufw status Status: active To Action From -- ------ ---- 22/tcp ALLOW # SSH (key-only) 80/tcp ALLOW # HTTP → HTTPS redirect 443/tcp ALLOW # HTTPS root@server:~# systemctl status fail2ban ● fail2ban.service - Fail2Ban Service Active: active (running) since Mon root@server:~# ./check-hardening.sh [OK] Root SSH disabled [OK] Password auth disabled [OK] Unattended security upgrades enabled [OK] Last backup verified: 14m ago
Right-sized VPS on DigitalOcean, Hetzner, AWS, or your provider of choice. We'll right-size based on your actual load profile, not a guess.
Key-only auth, root login disabled, custom port if you insist, fail2ban active, login alerts to Slack.
Default deny inbound, allow only what's needed, IP allowlists where appropriate. Documented why each port is open.
Unattended security upgrades enabled. Daily cron checks. Reboots scheduled in your maintenance window only.
Daily snapshots to a separate region. We perform an actual restore as the final sign-off step. Yes, really.
Disk, CPU, memory, swap, network — surfaced in Grafana or your stack. PagerDuty / Slack alerts on threshold breach.
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