Donncha Ó Caoimh

Stopping Web Server Abuse with Fail2Ban

At 4am yesterday morning I was awake. Luckily so, as I checked my email and saw a warning that my VPS had been running at 199% CPU for two hours. I went into my office and checked the logs. Someone had been hammering this site with HEAD requests since just after midnight with nearly 30,000Continue reading

https://odd.blog/2026/03/26/stopping-web-server-abuse-with-fail2ban/
#Apache2 #fail2ban #WordPress

Mar 26 at 4:15pmWeb
Show threadbazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵6d ago
@donncha fail2ban rules!
Show threadDonncha Ó Caoimh6d ago

@bazkie Haha, it certainly does.

The main reason I had it installed was to protect sshd. Apparently it has blocked 103 IPs there. :)

Show threadbazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵6d ago
@donncha I know the feel lol
I think it was also ssh for me or maybe ftp 🤔 getting hammered by chinese IPs for some reason 🤷‍♀️
Show threadjimgroom6d ago
@donncha sysadmin! :)