Web Application Firewall

A web application firewall is a software solution which actively monitors the incoming and outgoing traffic of a web application, such as a WordPress site, and helps protect the site against threats. While monitoring a web application, the firewall looks for signs of malicious intent and, if found, blocks the suspicious traffic. Metaphorically, it's like having an armed private police force protecting your WordPress site.

Security features

Our deluxe WordPress hosting plan comes with a Sucuri web application firewall bundle. We've integrated Sucuri to make it super easy to manage. Once enabled, Sucuri gets to work protecting your WordPress site against SQL injections, brute-force attempts to hack your site, bots, and more. By auto-enabling HTTPS, you don't have to worry about accidentally using insecure connections, which also has the side-effect of preventing a ding to your SEO; For a number of years now, not using a secure (HTTPS) connection leads to a lower SEO rating.

A boost in performance

Our web application firewall solution also includes some performance features, such as an intelligent caching mechanism and very fast content delivery network (CDN). Fun fact, we also enable HTTP/2 by default, which is an improved version of HTTP that provides a plethora of performance-related improvements focused on making the communication between web servers and web browsers far more efficient.

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