Importance of having a Firewall like CSF & LFD

Securing a server has a high priority to be implemented on your server, so to have a better security you should install some third party applications, Like a good Firewall .but the other thing you should keep in mind is to consider how much money is in your pocket.Today I want to introduce you A Free Open Source Firewall that also is updated regularly and has so many options to secure your server from known attacks that is Called CSF (ConfigServer Security and Firewall).

one of those best software firewalls that will bring you high security is CSF (ConfigServer Security & Firewall)

Why to choose to Install CSF & LFD

CSF is by far my favor, that is because it has the  best integration with cpanel and have a great User Interface (UI) in WHM / Cpanel that it is so easy to edit this firewall configuration and manage it through your WHM, so it is Cpanel/WHM Friendly.Another benefit is that CSF has been tested well on Centos Linux servers, and i myself have it installed on my own Centos Server and untill today I haven’t seen any problems and it is working so greate.

Follow the steps bellow for installation:

CSF (ConfigServer Security & Firewall ) Installation Instructuon:

the above task first will download csf from he creator website using wget

then it uses tar -xzf command followed by the file name that has already been downlaoded to Extract CSF package.

then we used a cd command to go to the folder of CSF that has already been extracted

inside it we used sh install.sh to run its installer shell script to automatically isntall all the fields needed to make CSF up and running.

How to start CSF

How to Restart CSF

How to Flush the Rules

Thanks

Voshka

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