vps-hetzner-setup-by-orlov

Official skill for Andriy Orlov's TG Community. Automates full security hardening of a fresh Linux VPS — from raw provider credentials to a locked-down, production-grade server. Covers Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, OVH, and other popular hosting providers. Core features - SSH key pair creation, UFW firewall configuration, fail2ban brute-force protection, sysctl kernel parameters tuning, non-root sudo user provisioning, SSH password and root access lockdown. Ukrainian triggers - "купив VPS/впску/сервер", "налаштувати сервер", "захардити", "підняти ufw/fail2ban", "захистити сервер", "свіжий дебіан/убунту в хмарі". English triggers - "got new server", "secure my VPS", "harden Ubuntu/Debian", "lock down SSH", "server hardening checklist", "audit server security". Safety-first approach - SSH password lockdown is deferred until the very last step, only after key-based access has been fully verified from the user's machine, making accidental self-lockout impossible. Not intended for - application deploy