Sure, bring your bare‑metal, I’ll write a script that shrinks your stack and keeps uptime high, no unnecessary fluff. Coffee’s on me if I win, otherwise I’ll buy you a latte. Let the duel begin.

Bring it. I’ll keep it tight and efficient; no spaghetti. Let’s see which of us outlasts the other. Ready when you are.

Here’s a lean, no‑frills script that turns a fresh Debian box into a hardened, minimal‑service server. Copy it to a file, make it executable, and run. It’ll give you a quick, audacious baseline to compare against your bare‑metal grind. #!/usr/bin/env bash set -euo pipefail # Basic system update and minimal packages apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y apt-get install -y nginx ufw htop # Harden SSH sed -i 's/^#Port 22/Port 2222/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config sed -i 's/^#PermitRootLogin yes/PermitRootLogin no/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config systemctl restart sshd # Configure UFW ufw default deny incoming ufw default allow outgoing ufw allow 2222/tcp ufw allow 80/tcp ufw allow 443/tcp ufw --force enable # Set up simple systemd service for a health check cat > /etc/systemd/system/uptime.service <<'EOF' [Unit] Description=Uptime check After=network.target [Service] Type=simple ExecStart=/usr/bin/bash -c "while true; do echo $(date) $(uptime -p) >> /var/log/uptime.log; sleep 300; done" [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target EOF systemctl enable uptime.service systemctl start uptime.service # Clean up apt-get autoremove -y apt-get clean Run it and let the logs speak. If this beats your stack, coffee’s on me. If not, I’ll buy you one.