Title: WordPress Best Practice
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# WordPress Best Practice

 *  [AlphaJoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alphajoo/)
 * (@alphajoo)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-best-practice/)
 * Is there any documentation on best practices when setting up FTP to a remote 
   Linux machine for WordPress?
 * We have a self hosted Linux server we are running WordPress on. This machine 
   will host multiple WordPress sites under a specific directory with Apache. We
   are looking for something that will explain the best way or most secure way to
   set up the FTP account.

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 *  [David Choi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpthemes777/)
 * (@wpthemes777)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-best-practice/#post-3740408)
 * I don’t think the question is related to WP specifically. It’s more of server
   administration related topic.
 * Anyways, I would always give users only SFTP or FTPS, never allow FTP for obvious
   reason that the transmission is not encrypted. If you are going to host the WP
   sites all together as shared hosting (not VPS) and will give out SFTP, then chroot
   is a must.
 * And instead of using the default port 21 for SFTP, I would change to something
   else so the brutal force bots won’t pound on it. If it’s not a hassle for you,
   the best solution I guess is passwordless logins:
 * [http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/152](http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/152)

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 * [best practice](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/best-practice/)
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