🔒 Your VPS Is Open to the Internet Right Now A brand-new cloud server has no firewall. No brute-force protection. Root login is wide open. Most beginners leave it that way for weeks — until something goes wrong. This kit fixes all of it in under 15 minutes.

What You Get A zip folder with 7 numbered bash scripts and a step-by-step PDF guide (3 pages)

The PDF guide walks you through every single step — from creating your SSH key on Windows, to uploading the scripts, to running them one by one. Written for people who have never touched Linux before.

Who This Is For ✅ Indie hackers and solopreneurs spinning up their first VPS ✅ Web developers who know code but not server admin ✅ Anyone who bought a Hetzner / DigitalOcean / Vultr / Linode server and wants it secured fast ✅ Windows users (all instructions are Windows-first)

What You’ll Have When Done • ✅ SSH key login (no passwords) • ✅ Non-root user account • ✅ Root login disabled • ✅ Firewall active (UFW) • ✅ Fail2Ban blocking brute-force attacks • ✅ Automatic security updates • ✅ Monitoring tools installed

No guessing. No googling. Just run the scripts in order. The verify script at the end checks everything for you and shows green output when it’s done right. Works on Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 (the two most common VPS operating systems).