All: Just for information I am seeing a lot of probing on servers I run publically for: wordpress login page dotfiles - (for non unix people those are files that start with a period that do not show with ls unless you use -a) e.g. env git awscredentials For the later if you run nginx as the gatekeeper you may find this stanza useful     location ~ /\..* {         return      444;     } It matches any dotfile and instructs nginx to just drop the connection without responding at all. If you use letsencrypt you will have to also use a match on     location /.well-known/acme-challenge { to allow certificate renewal.