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@danami , I used to block ip ranges with iptables but gave up on this because it was slowing the site significantly - no, I didn't use ipsets, so this may be a reason. I am going to have a close look at your Juggernaut Firewall, but my main problem at the moment (and the reason why I am...

@Peter Debik , re "Here we don't see that many bad bots requests", you are lucky, on my site/VPS spam bots/crowlers generate almost 40% of traffic :( Re: "every single packet that is processed at the network interface": you are right, it's all about proportion of bad packets (BP) to good...

Hi @Peter Debik , I agree that fail2ban may not be the best tool to block bots, but what about iptables? i.e. sudo iptables -I INPUT -p TCP -m string --string "Baiduspider" --algo bm -j DROP With itables, spam bot traffic doesn't even get to nginx and apache. There is obviously a performance...

Hello, I recently migrated from VPS running Plesk 12.0.18 to another VPS running Plesk Onyx. During the interim period, I decided to keep both VPSs, so I can compare the behaviour and rollback if there are some issues. One thing I noticed is the disparity in processing system updates. For...

Hello, I am running Nginx as a reverse proxy in front of Apache on my VPS (Plesk 17/Ubuntu 14.04) and I don't have PHP-FPM enabled. AFAIK, PHP-FPM is the gateway interface for Nginx for processing dynamic PHP, but with Nginx running as a proxy it never processes dynamic PHP, these are processed...

Thank you so much @Peter Debik. As you suggested, I changed the IP from dedicated to shared, restarted the restore process and everything was restored just fine. Thanks a lot, you saved the day! :)

Thanks @UFHH01. So should I message @IgorG directly or will he magically appear in this thread? :)

Hi @UFHH01 , One fact that I failed to mention in the original post is that I had a warning "Warning: Unable to validate the backup signature. The backup file might be modified, corrupted, created on another server or in an earlier Plesk version.", so I checked the option "Restore this backup...

Hello, I recently migrated my old VPS with Plesk 12.0 to a new VPS running Plesk Onyx but, due to may lack of knowledge, I ended up completely corrupting the installation when tried to resolve some tricky security issue. Luckily, I've got a full backup taken when the new VPS was fully...

The problem has been now resolved and I was able to use iptables-persistent for the purpose of reloading custom iptables (same as I used it with Plesk 12). Unfortunately, I cannot point out what had solved the problem (it's either a recent patch or something that I did to the server) but after I...

Hi @UFHH01 , Actually, it only worked once, upon the first reboot. After I followed your suggestion and used "update-rc.d drop-bots.sh defaults" command, my script was executed at startup and required lines were added to iptables (though, after fail2ban lines). After rebooted again I didn't see...

Thanks for the quick response, @UFHH01. You were right, I forgot "update-rc.d drop-bots.sh defaults", and it made the script run... on the first reboot but not subsequent reboots. Also, unfortunately, even on the first reboot when it worked, my script was executed on startup before fail2ban, so...

Hello, I recently migrated my VPS from Plesk 12 to Plesk Onyx (I am now running Plesk Onyx v17.0.17 update #21 on Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS). I have a number of custom rules in iptables and, previously, I just had iptables-persistent installed - it was auto loading on reboot iptables stored in...