Tuesday, October 18, 2011

1and1 VPS, Step 1: Reimage and setup

After the recent problems, I have decided to reimage my VPS with 1and1.

Logging into the Control Panel, selecting CentOS 5.5 and Plesk Panel 10, punching the reimage button. Says it will be ready in an hour. We'll see...

Twenty minutes later; done. Excellent. Now just a few very important changes to make:

  1. Login to Virtuozzo and change the password.
  2. Enable the firewall and add rules for Web, DNS, Plesk (SSL), SSH, Mail and FTP.
  3. Change the SSH port to something different, by editing /etc/ssh/sshd.config, updating the firewall with the new rules. Also helps if you got a fixed IP; modifying the source and destination IP addresses so that security is a bit better.
  4. Restart the sshd service to load the changes to the port number
Now, using PuTTY, connect to the server and test credentials. Before logging out of Viruozzo and using Plesk, it is recommended to start 'psa', 'mysqld' and 'named' in the system services section.

And, before I forget; open another firewall port (8447) so that Plesk can be updated.

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