[rawrly]

This article's title should have been "8 things the author did to secure their specific Ubuntu server."

It's strange that it the link got so many votes. While the article has a few points about security, it's nowhere sufficient enough to be considered acceptable reading material for improving your site or server's security. (case in point: complete lack of anything on their list addressing integrity of your files/content, also nothing about backups)

It would be a shame if anyone from HN took the approach the author describes in the above article and felt any sense of increased security on their site or about to be launched web app (there is a whole heck of a lot more out there than "install a few things, make a few tweaks, look what i did")