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OpenClaw VPS hardening checklist.

Security on a small VPS is less about advanced theory and more about refusing to skip the boring things: users, keys, firewall, updates, logs, backups, and not exposing internals directly.

Updated 2026-03-23OPENCLAW_VPS_HARDENING_CHECKLISTArchive entry

Direct answer. Security on a small VPS is less about advanced theory and more about refusing to skip the boring things: users, keys, firewall, updates, logs, backups, and not exposing internals directly.

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SSH baseline

Disable root login
Disable password auth
Use a dedicated sudo user
Do not test changes in your only open session

Firewall

Expose only what needs to be public. For most setups that means SSH plus HTTP/HTTPS, and even SSH can often be IP-restricted.

sudo ufw allow OpenSSH
sudo ufw allow 80/tcp
sudo ufw allow 443/tcp
sudo ufw enable

Updates and services

Use systemd, inspect logs with journalctl, and keep the gateway behind a reverse proxy instead of binding it to a public interface.

Do not cheat this

Temporary public ports have a way of becoming permanent when nobody writes the follow-up ticket.

Backups

Document what must survive a rebuild
Back up configs and secrets appropriately
Test restore assumptions before you need them

Keep the next step obvious.

The point of this archive is not to impress you with complexity. It is to help you pick the right hosting path, with fewer avoidable mistakes.

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