Improves my Website security
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Works like a champ on my server where I host 4 independent WP installs. I had to install the plugin to all of the WP installs. A couple of hours later fail2ban was full of bad-guys IPs trying to enumerate users.
I prefer such plugins that do one thing and do it well instead of some bloated plugins.
One might want to change the provided fail2ban jail, 7 days ban might be a lot for some.
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Hi Geoffrey,
Thank you very much for your generous review. That is exactly why I built this plugin about 6 years ago, a lightweight way to detect a ‘bad guy’ footprint and use Fail2Ban to block the IPs. I agree the 7 day ban is too long, but I haven’t changed that config in the 6 years in the plugin, but will do next release, it really only needs to be 20 minutes in my opinion. But of course that is the beauty of F2B, you configure it to your needs.
The all in one security plugins have a place for people that have less time or experience and indeed I have a premium full security plugin which I have tried to build with the same lightweight ethos and leverage Fail2Ban where it exists. Of course that plugin would not be for the someone like you, but at least the revenue means I can continue to provide support for this plugin totally free.
Best regards,
Alan
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