I put up a vps with nginx and the logs show dodgy requests within minutes, how do you guys deal with these?

Edit: Thanks for the tips everyone!

  • exu
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    91 year ago

    All the legit reasons mentioned in the blog post seem to apply to badly behaved client software. Using a good and stable server OS avoids most of the negatives.

    Unattended Upgrades on Debian for example will by default only apply security updates. I see no reason why this would harm stability more than running a potentially unpatched system.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      Even though minimal, the risk of security patches introducing new changes to your software is still there as we all have different ideas on how/what correct software updates should look like.

      • exu
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        31 year ago

        Fair, I’d just rather have a broken system than a compromised one.

    • @med
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      11 year ago

      Hell, debian is usually so stable I would just run dist-upgrade on my laptop every morning.

      The difference there is that I’d be working with my laptop regularly and would notice problems more quickly