One step at a time
Security plugins for WordPress are very popular these days, I bet you have a list of must-have security plugins on your WordPress sites.
Among all the common security issues related to WordPress, I personally hate brute force attacks most, which cost one of my clients’ sites down and a painful customer service experience. So last year when I started some new WordPress sites on a Media Temple VPS hosting, I chose to use Fail2ban to deal with such attacks.
Few days ago one of my sites got brute force attacked. The site is hosted on a shared server, and the webhosting shut my site down for consuming too much resources. After that I decided to dig into this issue a little deeper, so I started a discussion on a LinkedIn Group called “WordPress Developers.”
My question is: “My site got brute force attacked. Anyone had the same experiences, would you please share how your hosting company dealt with it? Any suggestions on preventing DDOS or brute force attacks, or hosting recommendation are welcome!”