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v0.11.1 April 20, 2026

Blog: WP Infrastructure Part 5 (WordPress Security on VPS)

New blog post: "WordPress Security on VPS: Nginx Rate Limiting, Fail2ban Jails, and SSL Hardening" — Part 5 of the WordPress Infrastructure from Scratch series.

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  • New blog post: "WordPress Security on VPS: Nginx Rate Limiting, Fail2ban Jails, and SSL Hardening" — Part 5 of the WordPress Infrastructure from Scratch series. Covers the two-layer defense architecture (Nginx request filtering in front of PHP, fail2ban bans at the iptables layer), rate limiting for `wp-login.php`, scanner detection jails, SSL/TLS hardening with Let's Encrypt and Cloudflare, WordPress and WooCommerce application-level settings, and the `wp-security-check` audit script. Labelled `infrastructure`.
  • Series TOC block appended so cross-links from Parts 1–4 and 6–7 resolve through the full index.