# How to secure the Linux server?

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** hosting\
**Created:** [March 10, 2020, 10:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-secure-the-linux-server/143785 "2020-03-10T10:07:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![itsbhanusharma](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/itsbhanusharma/32/180717_2.png) [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2020, 11:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-secure-the-linux-server/143785/2 "2020-03-10T11:26:57Z")

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I support automatic security updates, UFW hardening

Use something like mailgun for discourse emails.

Everything else is probably unnecessary.

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