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As soon as you purchase your dedicated server, you should start looking into methods of securing it and browsing any security policies already put into place. You wouldn’t want someone to erase your pride and joy in life, so doing so is important even despite the lack of fun it may be.

Any time you give someone access to your dedicated server, you are allowing one more way into your secure information. Even if the person is trusted, things such as social engineering can pry passwords away from someone quite surprisingly. Essentially you want to limit anyone who has access to not only your server, but to any serve your server offers to others.

The modules on your server are an easy way to find entry if your modules aren’t updated. Modules are additions to your server that are used to increase the functionality. This could be an example of a programming language, for instance. If a patch comes out for your module, never hesitate to download it. Not doing so could seal your fate as a webmaster and as a security administrator.

Although you won’t ever run into a security concern coding in straight HTML, as soon as you turn to another language, the odds are you will face security concerns. In the right hands, every language can do something drastic and harmful if it has access to the back end of the server. An example would be with Ruby on Rails, which works closely with MySQL, which can easily be manipulated to delete an entire database in seconds.

It’s not always about what you have on your server, but rather what you don’t have. It’s good practice to delete any modules you aren’t using, and to close all ports you are sure that you will not be using in the future. The reasoning behind this is that if you have a spare module you don’t pay attention to, a user could take advantage of your lack of awareness and take advantage of a security exploit in an older version of the module.

Server administrators always make backups from time to time. And this just isn’t because of bad users that want to ruin your server for fun- it’s because sometimes there are bugs in code, accidents, and other odd happenings that can’t be explained. If solutions don’t seem to work out, having a back up is always something that can be done as a last resort- and they are easy to do as well.

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