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My complaint about Wordpress is always about how frequently it gets attacked. I have had multiple wordpress websites hacked even after keeping them regularly up
by pkphilip 5y ago
My complaint about Wordpress is always about how frequently it gets attacked. I have had multiple wordpress websites hacked even after keeping them regularly updated and even after having special "security" plugins such as Wordfence installed, the application firewall installed etc.
It puts too much of a burden on the site owner from a security perspective.
Quite frankly, Wordpress leaks like a sieve. I wish this wasn't true because it is really one of the best/most accessible CMSs around. If they fix the security issues, it would just be wonderful.
- SadWebDeveloper 5y agoStop using shady shared hosting companies, self-host everything and harden php/apache/mariadb deployment not just Wordpress. Wordpress is pretty secure but putting everything in a shared hosting with lax security like dreamhost or hostgator et al its asking for trouble.
- bigth 5y agoI think that's the part most people overlook. I have many wordpress sites, some large, some small, and only 1 was ever hacked and it was on a shared host 10+ years ago. Today I have sites that I haven't updated in 5+ years, no hacks no problems. Good wp depends on good server config and good wp setup.
- pkphilip 5y agoI am not using shared hosting. It was hosted on a Digital Ocean box using the recommended security updates, settings, file permissions etc and with as few plugins as I could get away with. I also had the "pro" version of Wordfence installed with active monitoring. Yet it was hacked.. multiple times.