A newly provisioned unmanaged VPS needs basic security and maintenance steps before production use.
- Log in using the credentials or console access provided with the VPS service.
- Update the operating system packages before installing application software.
- Create a non-root administrative user when appropriate and configure SSH access carefully.
- Set firewall rules so only required ports are publicly reachable.
- Configure backups before placing important data or production workloads on the server.
