Moving the port away from 22 changed my fail2ban logs from hundreds of lines a day to one every few weeks at most. While you shouldn't skip on other security m

Moving the port away from 22 changed my fail2ban logs from hundreds of lines a day to one every few weeks at most. While you shouldn't skip on other security measures, there's no real downside to changing your SSH port and getting off the target list for a lot of botnets. (As opposed to e.g. port knocking, which is stronger but makes it easy to lock yourself out and may create issues with some SSH clients.)