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## nginx.conf

#user  nobody;
worker_processes  4;

#error_log  logs/error.log;
#error_log  logs/error.log  notice;
#error_log  logs/error.log  info;

#pid        logs/nginx.pid;

## fail2ban.md

      
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                fail2ban – stop HTTP(S) route abuse/brute forcing
              
          
    If you're not familiar: What is fail2ban? fail2ban is an awesome linux service/monitor that scans log files (e.g. auth.log for SSH) for potentially malicious behavior. Once fail2ban is tripped it will ban users for a specified duration by adding rules to Iptables. If you're unfamiliar with fail2ban Chris Fidao has a wonderful (& free!) series about security including setting up fail2ban here.
Recently Laravel released a new feature in 5.1 to throttle authentication attempts by simply adding a trait to your authentication controller. The Laravel throttle trait uses the inputted username, and IP address to throttle attempts. I love seeing this added to a framework out of the box, but what about some of our other apps not built on Laravel? Like a WordPress login? Or even an open API etc.? Ultimately,

  
## pedantically_commented_playbook.yml
This playbook has been removed as it is now very outdated.

	#user nobody;
	worker_processes 4;

	#error_log logs/error.log;
	#error_log logs/error.log notice;
	#error_log logs/error.log info;

	#pid logs/nginx.pid;