I am using my VPS to mirror another website. To do so I simply added a entry to the out-of-the-box httpd.conf found on this fully-updated CentOS6 system.
Since I'm just acting as a mirror for static content, my intent is for this to be a fairly passive operation; I get the content via rsync periodically (cron job) and dispense it via Apache. Easy-peasy.
What can this Apache newbie do to harden my service so that I can just let it run without frequently monitoring it for hacking and/or DDOS attempts? I would really like this to be a hands-off operation and still feel confident that my site will stay accessible.
Thanks.