Hardening a WordPress website on AWS Lightsail

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.

To defend against 99% of the most common but most impactful threats you need to restrict firewall access on port 22 (ssh). 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.

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