C) Working on the zone tuning, but having some issues with Cloudflare at the moment as their system doesn't seem to want to let me log into my account, despite their tech team saying nothing is wrong with my account and i should be able to log in fine. Weird. Cloudflare can be annoying like that. A...

Oh, and regarding those Chinese bots hammering your SSH...

Disable password authentication and then you can sleep well. If you're annoyed by auth.log noise, consider fail2ban or knockd.

http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
http://www.zeroflux.org/projects/knock

OD, I'm the person that was relaying info to you via the General yesterday. I've finally decided to crawl out of my shell and sign up, so here I am! Anyhow, just wanted to provide some additional pointers. You wrote that DoS increases the risk of MITM, this is false. Regarding your habit to leave po...