Was it EVER faster though? My experience with Windows has always been that they release new versions based on upcoming hardware specs and unless you spend top-dollar on the very latest hardware for their next release, you are going to see things moving slower on the new desktop. That’s one of things I’ve enjoyed about linux, you can pretty much always upgrade the OS on an older machine without concern of taking a hit on the performance, and sometimes you even get a boost.
Does anyone know of a linux tool that can immediately ban an IP address if they try to log in to ssh with specific user names? I see a ton of attempts in my logs for names like fax, mysql, admin, and of course root. Fail2ban only works if the same IP makes repeated attempts but I’m betting if I could generate a list from these failed attempts it would probably correlate with standard blocklists of compromised hosts. For that matter, is there a way to use an RBL to limit addresses that ssh will even accept? Of course none of these attempts have a chance of logging in, but it would still be nice to further limit my exposure for any future attacks.
One easy solution might be to check into a self-hosted search engine? I’ve used mnogosearch in the past which worked well for spidering a single domain, but it only created the database and didn’t have a web page front end. Still, if you let it go crazy across your nextcloud pages and add a search bar to your website it could provide what you’re missing. They provided enough examples at the time for me to write my own search page pretty easily.
Good luck! And don’t get stuck on the software I use, you may find something else that is better suited for your type of data. Like if your content is wrapped up in PDFs or some kind of zipped files then the best solution is one that can peer into those files to give search hits on the given text. Of course if your content is already fairly plan text then pretty much any solution would work.