Response to https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeServer/comments/1nvv9hv/guys_is_this_bad_1000s_of_ssh_authentication/
- Use nftables to ban repeated connection attempts
- Configure your ssh server with some sensible defaults
This approach uses core linux tools that ship with any distribution, so you can avoid installing and configuring third party tools like fail2ban. If you haven't heard of netfilter, it the usertool for configuring network