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Where Are All My Firewall People?
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this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2025
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Yes it is. It was a little more than I wanted to spend, and I'm sure I could have gone with a cheaper configuration, but I figured I'd get something with a little ass to it as to not create a bottleneck right at the firewall.
I too host most of the services I use on a couple of VPS I run. It has always amazed me as to the thickness of the bot layer on the internet. Clearnet experiences something like 2+ zetabytes per 24 hours. Around 50% of that is bot traffic, and they are very sophisticated bots as well. Open port 22 and here they come by the thousands like a feeding frenzy. I went as far as blocking everything with hosts.allow (do first) & hosts.deny (do last). I've set f2b on aggressive mode with only one shot. LOL UFW rocks in the background along with Crowdsec. I probably go overboard with security. LOL
Largest ddos attack of all time? 12 tb/sec.
But yeah, I believe it when you say you get 24,855 tb/sec on your VPS.
Beg pardon? I am going to need clarification.
When you say open 22, do you mean with just password access with multiple users? I recently made mine only allow entry using ssh certs iirc. And then just blocked incoming for the time being. Guess I'll need to fix that before another git pull request.
I think when I said open port 22, I was giving an illustration of the hordes of bots that will show up at your doorstep. Best practice is to use ssh keys and rotate them.