No it’s not. That’s what /var/log/auth.log is for.

Now you’re going out of your way, to find more dubious third party scripts, instead of going through the official docs, just to try and prove a point wrong which I haven’t even made? Welcome to my block list.

You’re not the author and I still think you should not have posted this, especially not in this community.

The post makes heavy use of Cloudflare and Docker, which are both either unnecessary for the task or have more open alternatives. The post mentions AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, which is fair, and was not a point of my criticism. Using a European server hoster just doesn’t even meet my idea of a bare minimum for a community like this.

You want a European stack? Use Proxmox, which is German, or just straight LXC. Cloudflare really serves no purpose here, kick it out. Then host your sources on Codeberg which is also German. How difficult was that?

Then disable password auth and ban their IP? SSH is not even a common intrusion path, those crawlers look for open gates, nothing else.

I don’t like this. The post tells you to do so many unnecessary things and gives zero explanation. Of course AI is mentioned in the first paragraph already, and this screams vibe coding with no understanding.

Why the Cloudflare stuff?

What do you need request caching for?

Why use a nonstandard SSH port? Obscurity is not security.

What is the purpose of all the other SSH config changes, which heavily alter the defaults in a way that people might not expect?

Your configuration makes the system reboot automatically, but you fail to mention that.

Then the rest just quickly glosses over setting up some obscure container management frontend and deploying something to it. Again, no explanations. Who needs this?

Edit: I only now realize that we’re in /c/buyeuropean. Why would you recommend Cloudflare, Docker and GitHub here? Is this a joke?

Mono block units are, yeah. However some split units have appeared on the market in recent years and they are great for people who rent an apartment without any AC. I bought a Midea PortaSplit last year and it’s amazing.

We will learn nothing from this