When you have provisioned your new Self-Managed VPS, it is critically important to secure it sufficiently to minimise the potential for it to be hacked. By ensuring it is secure, you protect both your data and our network from malicious use.
Our Recommendations
Some of the steps you should take to secure your VPS include:
Installing a firewall. (CSF, UFW, firewalld)
Lock down ports that are not being used.
Set a strong password, consider disabling password root logins in favour of SSH-key access only.
Configure your web server (Apache/LiteSpeed/Nginx) and PHP appropriately.
Update your kernel and all RPMs.
These are just a few of the steps you should take, but there are many more. If you're unfamiliar with securing a VPS and need help, please contact our Technical Support Team, who can secure and configure servers where cPanel/WHM and a Server Management Job have been purchased.
This guide will go over how to log in to WHM (Web Host Manager) and provide some tips for first-time users. Accessing WHM
To access WHM, the easiest way is through your Synergy Wholesale account:
Log in to your Synergy Wholesale account.
This guide will go over navigation within WHM (Web Host Manager) and some of its features. This requires you to log in to WHM. If you haven't logged in yet, please refer to our WHM Logging In guide first.
This guide will go over our recommended initial configuration steps after logging in to WHM, If you haven't logged in yet, please refer to our Accessing WHM guide first. Initial Configuration Steps
We recommend going through the following initial configuration steps to ensure your WHM/cPanel server is set up correctly:
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Note: This step is only required for Self Managed VPS users, as our Fully Managed VPS users will have this set up for you.
What addons are available for my VPS? Self Managed VPS Plans
The following addons are available for Self-Managed VPS services that do not already have these installed:
Complete Security Suite which includes:
ImunifyAV+ Anti-virus Monitoring
Fortinet Hardware Firewall
Halon outbound Email Spam Protection
Acronis Backups
Fortinet Hardware Firewall
Nagios Service Monitoring
LiteSpeed Web Server + LiteSpeed Cache
CloudLinux & Kernelcare (AlmaLinux 8 servers only)
Installatron (AlmaLinux 8 servers only)
Additional cPanel Account Licences
Fully Managed VPS Plans
Fully Managed VPS's already include all the above addons however there are some differences:
Complete Security Suite: Instead of ImunifyAV+ we use Monarx for Anti-virus.
