To have your own ftp server running on your VPS – you can use either proftpd or vsftpd servers. In this howto we’ll setup and configure vsftpd for basic needs. To begin we have to install the package:
Most common iptables rules
This brief tutorial is going to show you how to setup or configure a simple yet effective firewall rules for your systems. These rules also apply to Linux systems using iptables firewall. iptables is a simple firewall installed on most Linux systems by default. It’s used to allow or deny network communications in or out of a system.
Mount remote directory with sshfs
In computing, SSHFS (SSH Filesystem) is a filesystem client to mount and interact with directories and files located on a remote server or workstation over a normal ssh connection. The client interacts with the remote file system via the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), a network protocol providing file access, file transfer, and file management functionality over any reliable data stream that was designed as an extension of the Secure Shell protocol (SSH) version 2.0. Using SSHFS, a remote file system may be treated in the same way as other volumes (such as CDs, DVDs, USB flash drives and shared disks).