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How do you control an ongoing brute force attack on your vps ?  I had gone through one I had a managed vps at Hudsonvalley hosting.  fortunately they put more security measures on server to prevent them getting through. Couldnt stop the attack. its was advanced type hitting from multiple ips and locations.

I advise you to create an amazing password like 7GhiZ&^J4PGdO%. You can check how much long it will take to hack this password in many sites. My passwords are stated that it will take 25 million years for a super computer.I also advise you to contact your host to whitelist only your ip and block all the other ips. I am saying that only you should be able to connect to your vps. This is not advisable when you have dynamic ip. If you have dynamic ip, then ask you host to whitelist your region alone.