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After an update my domains on my unmanaged VPS are not working anymore. It seems that port 80 and 443 are closed and remain closed even after adding rules in iptables. Could there be anything else keeping those ports closed? My VPS is running centos-6-x86_64 Any ideas where to look?

Been a number of years since I last had a nice open source gateway device in place.    Used IPCOP prior and really liked it.  Was good for segmenting LAN, like throwing insecure stuff in a VLAN, wifi on another VLAN, etc. Going back to using something similar since time to segment experiments...

I am new to linux/vps (though I know quite a bit) and familiar with windows desktop. From windows point of view, AFAIAK firewall software would control which processes have access to the internet/sockets etc. In linux vps, I am the only user (root) of the system and I can only install software...

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For long I've been running Debian on VPS instance wide open or with a stack of iptables commands.   Been getting smacked by some bad traffic lately and after debugging all that, thought it was time for something a bit tidier and easier to deal with.  Yes iptables rocks, but it's a long learning...