I find this reassuring for my personal projects; I'm not a security expert. I've been afraid that my VPS was going to be exploited as soon as I started opening

I find this reassuring for my personal projects; I'm not a security expert. I've been afraid that my VPS was going to be exploited as soon as I started opening up services to the internet, but so far this has not been the case. All I've done is install fail2ban and spent a short while reading up on best practices/config settings before installing services, and everything has worked out so far ...