SSH – CyberPersons

January 25, 2020

[Solved] ‘SSH Connection refused in DigitalOcean’

In this article, we are going to discuss four primary reasons behind the error ‘SSH Connection refused in DigitalOcean’ and how to fix those errors. SSH clients such as Putty and OpenSSH are used to manage remote Linux servers with SSH installed on them, but sometimes users get a particular error such as ‘SSH connection refused’ in the DigitalOcean Droplets….

DigitalOcean 0 5 min read

May 31, 2017

Use python to automatically backup Proxmox Virutal Machine to Remote Server!

Recently proxmox has been used by a lot of companies for various reasons, I’ve already written quite a few articles on Proxmox. Virtual Machines backups are a really important issue for any organization because disasters can happen anywhere and anytime, so we must be careful and have backups in case anything goes wrong. Proxmox by default offers a really nice…

Backup 0 6 min read

August 11, 2016

Host a website on a VPS without any technical knowledge!

One of the major issue these days is how to manage a VPS to host a website (run apache, mysql and other necessary modules required to run a website). How ever if you have very less or no technical knowledge, you can still rent a vps and run multiple sites. Prerequisites You need a VPS, you can buy from 9xhost…

DNS 0 3 min read

July 27, 2016

How to setup NAT on Proxmox

Proxmox uses bridge networking to provide Internet access to virtual machines, but in a bridge networking you need a public IP for each machine. If you have limited IPs you can use NAT to access Internet on your machines. How ever it is preferable to have a static public IP if you are running public services like apache web server….

Linux 11 2 min read

July 23, 2016

Packet sniffing using Snort

I’ve explained in my last tutorial that how you can install snort on Ubuntu, if you have not installed it yet you can click here. In my article where I explained how to install snort, I mentioned that snort have two running modes, today we will see how we can do packet sniffing using snort. What is packet sniffing? In…

Linux 0 5 min read

July 7, 2016

First step: Secure your SSH

One of the first step towards securing your server is to limit the attack points as I already mentioned here. How ever SSH is one of the most important service if you are managing your server remotely, so definitely you can shutdown this service in case you can access your machine physically (then you can shut down the SSH service)…

SSH 0 2 min read

July 5, 2016

Password less SSH Authentication using public/private keys

SSH gives you remote access to a Linux machine, just like you are sitting physically with the keyboard attached to it. One of the main reasons why people use ssh is because its secure, all communication is encrypted and packets can not be sniffed during connection. How ever if some one knows your SSH password then your server/personal computer is…

SSH 0 3 min read