Hostgator Announcements : Hacking measures

By web hosting on Oct 1, 2007 in Hostgator Blog

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This is the official hostgator announcement posted by sfindep on 29 September 2007

I’ve just made the jump to a dedicated server. In addition to my newspaper’s increasingly complex Web site and some development of software to sell and host for other newspapers, we’ll be hosting some small sites for clients and advertisers.

I am just becoming haltingly familiar with Unix, mostly by way of Mac OSX. The terminal doesn’t scare me, but I’m more determined than proficient. Realizing I have a lot to learn before this can happen, I nonetheless want to do the best job I can at being a good steward for this server, my own businesses, and my customers.

Now that I’m receiving daily server logs, I’m disturbed at the sheer number of hacking attempts. My log from yesterday was endless; most of the attempts were from the same two IP addresses.

I submitted a ticket last week and got some advice to run this command from the terminal:

route add ((offending IP address)) reject

One of the offending IP addresses from this week returned last night and made hundreds of attempts, which makes me wonder how effective that command is.

Does anyone out there have some practical advice for keeping a dedicated server secure in 2007?

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