[ikk157]

Nay this wouldn't break anything in Vesta. It's indeed good you change the default stuff, as it'll prevent everyone from getting to the login interface. Personally I've Vesta running on a completely separate port than 8083.

It might as well afford protection against bruteforce attacks. Although fail2ban is very efficient, still this is extra protection.

And yes, this also helps if you've something else running on Vesta's default port, which can be more cumbersome to change than this one. This is a really simple tutorial as well as a process which anyone can follow from newbies to intermediates to advanced users.

Regards,

How would this help protect from bruteforce attacks?

I’m pretty sure whoever has the intention to do such a bad thing won’t find it all that difficult to find the new vesta port. Doesn’t seem like a good way to protect from brute force attacks at all, unless, in the best case scenario, the attacker is straight up dumb.