Any tips to optimizing and securing freebsd on kvm LEB ?

pepaya

Hi,
In order to learn freebsd, i purchase 128MB KVM VPS from hostigation, and put my not so serious wordpress blog with +- 1000 pageviews per day on it.
I have recompiled the kernel to disable some features that i know will not be used.
I also installing nginx, php-fpm with 2 worker processess, and mysql to run wordpress.
Memory usage is quite low

freecolor -mo
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           115         66         49          0          0          3
Swap:          259          4        255

 uptime
10:01AM  up 4 days,  1:25, 1 user, load averages: 0.27, 0.19, 0.12

Except changing ssh port, i have no idea to securing my box.

drmike

Some general reading:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=security&sektion=7

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=4108

The folks who do our tech support have a check list as well but it's covered under a NDA and I can't give it up. I'm not supposed to tell you that the items on those pages look familiar though. :whistle: