Show HN: Stenvakt, a server hardening and patching tool
I run a couple of VPSes, some are for clients and some for my own internal projects. Now the problem is when a big vulnerability/exploit happens in a service or an app i use, I need to lose about a day of work to patch all of the servers, and it's always a mess, so I built stenvakt. Stenvakt is a mac app that connects to your servers over SSH, it's used for updating, patching, hardening, watching and reviewing servers. Database backups, shutting down ports, coolify integration. It's also very ha
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Source account: I run a couple of VPSes, some are for clients and some for my own internal projects. Now the problem is when a big vulnerability/exploit happens in a service or an app i use, I need to lose about a day of work to patch all of the servers, and it's always a mess, so I built stenvakt. Stenvakt is a mac app that connects to your servers over SSH, it's used for updating, patching, hardening, watching and reviewing servers. Database backups, shutting down ports, coolify integration. It's also very ha
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