This is not going to be a PhD dissertation on server security. Just a few tips that I have found helpful along the way. The bottom line is if you take security seriously you should never have any problems. If you don’t take security seriously you are guaranteed to have some problems. Consider yourself warned.

Passwords First

I’ve had good luck with this password generator website: https://passwordsgenerator.net/

Adjust the settings to your liking, and it will give you a list something like this:

What I tend to do is copy 10-15 passwords at a crack and place them in a Notepad file so I have them for easy reference.

Pretty simple actually.

Usernames… More Complicated

Choosing usernames like “admin” or “user” or anything else that is incredibly basic and non-descriptive is probably asking for trouble. We will get into this in a little more detail in later posts but suffice it to say, if the name of your server is bblaze.xyz it’s probably not a good idea to use “bblaze” as the administrative user login. See what I mean?

If you’re going to have a whole bunch of different logins that you want to keep separate, you can use a list of things:

• Fruits: apple, grape, banana, pear, cherry…
• Trees: maple, oak, ash, pine, willow…
• Planets: Mercury, Earth, Venus, Mars…
• Animals: cheetah, moose, squirrel, aardvark…

You get the idea.

If you really want to be serious about it, you can use the password generator to generate random usernames as well as follows:

I’m not saying this is required. I’m not even saying this is a brilliant idea. I’m throwing it out there is something you should be aware of.

Usernames and passwords matter.

Take them seriously.