Building a Secure VPS Server Under Debian 11

Get Started in Setting Up A Functional and Secure System

Self-managed VPS (Virtual Private Servers) can make new systems inexpensive for technically skilled individuals to deploy, either for hosting a personal domain, to create a remote distributed node, or for working with DNSDB API or the Security Information Exchange (SIE) data, or other purposes. 

While you can get a Un*x VPS easily and inexpensively today, there are still a number of details necessary to bring up a functional and secure system. This report is meant to help users bring up a secure-yet-still-usable system. 

In this report, we will discuss: 

• Basic authoritative DNS records that should be created in one's DNS provider's control panel
• Bringing up sshd for encrypted remote access with public key authentication and Yubikey MFA support
• Getting automatic patching set up
• And much more