Your comment sounds convincing at the start but.. "The best thing you can do is enable automated updates, and rely on your cloud provider's console for accessi

Your comment sounds convincing at the start but.. "The best thing you can do is enable automated updates, and rely on your cloud provider's console for accessing the server and disabling all remote access otherwise." 1) I've run into to many issues letting the systems auto update. 2) Several times the AWS console (a web app so probably not as secure as a remote Linux ssh connection in my mind) failed to work, not just for me either, there have been multiple report I found on this, my remote ssh connection is the only way I could fix it since AWS doesn't have a remote serial console thing like Linode has (or had?).