I’m wondering which is the best FREE option.
(i.e. not requiring a premium purchase or a subscription).
Wordfence talks about 30 days delays for various things, which sounds less than ideal…
Sucuri seems pretty good.
Sa, to all, interested in thoughts on this please?
@ronny is there a reason you are looking at wordfence alternatives? Come across particular issues?
]]>There are limits to what a security plugin can do, it is after-all subject to attacks on your website files as are any other file on your server. Think of them like your antivirus/anti-malware installed on your computer desktop – in that they do well at catching known/older issues, and generally miss the really new ones, but are often updated shortly afterward to prevent them from re-ocurring.
Some make arbitrary changes to the way your website functions in ways you may not understand until you try a certain *thing* and it doesn’t work, and some conflict with others.
By far though the best practices are:
– keep your website, themes, and plugins up to date
– install only the plugins you need, remove ones you are not using
– same goes for themes
– host your website on a reputable webhosting service