An easy way to keep your VPS secure as many people in the replies said is @Tailscale Tailscale is very hard to explain and I barely understand it but it creates a private network with just you (your laptop for ex) and your servers in the cloud Nobody else can access that private network Installing it is easy, smth like: curl -fsSL tailscale.com/install.sh | sh sudo tailscale up But check the commands yourself always, then you click a link, login to Tailscale, add your server to your network, then after you type: tailscale ip -4 And that gives your server a new IP via Tailscale, you SSH via that (I use @TermiusHQ) and then in your firewall (on Hetzner or Digital Ocean you can change the firewall in the dashboard easily) you set to only accept SSH connections (usually port 23) from the Tailscale network: 100.64.0.0/10 Now nobody can SSH into your server ever, only you inside your Tailscale network! I learnt this with ChatGPT btw after seeing @DanielLockyer install it on my main server, but today I installed it on all my Hetzner VPS's for extra security!