[rnovak]

oh yeah, sorry, I didn't mean to make it out like I was complaining. I log all blocked traffic, so I get data related to ports other than just SSH. I was more lamenting that people even want to attack my VPS, as there's really nothing interesting about it.

[getsat]

It's not people, though. It's bots! While changing the ssh port adds a comically small amount of security (if any), it isolates you from 99.99% of automated attacks and keeps those logs clean, so I'd recommend it for everyone.

Just remember that the port argument to `scp` is -P and not -p like it is for `ssh`. :p

[rnovak]

Yeah, I whitelist IPs, and just drop all other packets, so I'm not really worried, but thanks for the advice, it's always good to get other peoples opinions on best practices.

[x0x0]

I think you can just use ssh/config to store ports even for scp; it's much nicer than remembering that stuff.