Hardening a WordPress website on AWS Lightsail

3 years ago towardsthecloud.com

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Setting up a secure WordPress website can be quite hard with all the scattered information out there on the web. This article sums up the best methods to properly harden your WordPress website on AWS Lightsail in combination with Cloudflare.

Set up end-to-end encryption using SSL and block everyone from accessing your wp-admin dashboard with a Cloudflare firewall rule. Down below we dive deeper into the details and explain how to properly harden your WordPress website.

Cloudflare Firewall Rules is a firewall offered by Cloudflare and is a powerful and flexible security tool to filter web application traffic.

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