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It is been noticed that there are quite a lot of people who are unaware of configuring or securing the server, many of them though know the process but still face trouble while doing so. Here in This article some easy but important configuration for the internet server will be discussed along with some precise steps to lead you to the other end of the troubled road that you could not go far before. Here six steps are mentioned below for a dramatic increase of your Linux server stability. It is guaranteed that it will not take more than 15 minutes from you to configure your Linux server. Here we go:

o    Install any software update available
When one first start to use any software he might installed the new one but it gates obsolete with time, so it is recommended to turn on the security update. Undoubtedly, Linux is a one of the greatest Operating Systems- but obviously all software tend to have security issues. If one enables the auto updates for the software’s it will update itself to keep pace with the new systems and it also ensures the better performance of the server. Anyway there can’t be any reason not to update the security system when it is available and besides older packages can be saved to a location for future use if any compatibility issues come into play.

o    Turn off the password authentication
Everybody wants to be able to rapidly and simply log into his server and change ones personal settings whenever he/she wishes to change. Besides, one should not turn on password authentication in his Linux server, to stop anonymous logging in your own server. As a replacement of that, turn on the RSA signing authentication. It is far more secure than normal password, as an invader will not be able to hide any login session.

o    Turn off extra services
This one is the next major issue for new client of servers. Every now and then the system superintendents are not aware of performing an essential final step- pick up the chaff from the crop filtering i.e. is stop any unnecessary connection. Stopping needless services is obviously a crucial step in case of any server optimization – besides why run additional services which consume much resource when they are not even required?

o    Guest accounts still running
Another conspicuous security issue and no doubt an exploiting one is that a customer will continue testing their user account turned on. You better get rid of these account issues for an improved and continuous performance.

o    Advertising posters turned on
Though it is good to see advertisement of the servers but it gets the attackers more than anything else, so it is better to hide the server from these attackers by disabling banners. Other than that it reveals the software info of your server.

o    PHP and other application errors
Sometime we see error information displayed on the screen, don’t be panicked with these as all of them are not security issue but sometimes some fragile ones happen. The PHP sometime disclose some eternal information while showing errors, so it is better this way if you turn off this application error display.