This is the Website Security & Monitoring service page for Best Website.
Our goal is simple: keep your site boring in the best possible way. No surprise defacements, no unexplained downtime, and no guessing who is responsible when something looks wrong.
We harden your WordPress environment, monitor it continuously, and respond quickly when there is something to investigate. You get a single partner accountable for watching the signals, separating noise from real issues, and walking you through next steps when it matters.
Why security and monitoring have to be ongoing
One-time security hardening is important, but it is not enough on its own. Threats, plugins, and infrastructure change constantly:
- New vulnerabilities are disclosed every week
- Plugins and themes get new security patches
- Traffic patterns shift as you grow or run campaigns
- Hosting providers make changes under the hood
If no one is watching these changes, security slowly drifts out of alignment. The result is not always a dramatic hack; it is often a slow accumulation of risk that only becomes visible once something breaks in a very public way.
Website Security & Monitoring is designed to keep your site aligned with modern best practices over time, not just the week after an incident.
What this service covers
Every plan starts by getting your current setup into a safer, more predictable state. From there, we layer on the monitoring and response you need based on how critical your site is.
1. Initial security hardening
We begin with a structured hardening pass so you are not building on a shaky foundation:
- Review of your hosting platform and WordPress configuration
- Security posture check for core, themes, and plugins
- Removal or mitigation of obviously risky plugins and settings
- Lockdown of admin access and login behavior where appropriate
- Baseline configuration of backups and recovery options
If you are also using our WordPress Hosting service, we coordinate directly with that environment so security, performance, and uptime all move in the same direction.
2. Continuous malware and intrusion monitoring
Once your site is hardened, we set up monitoring tailored to your environment:
- Real-time scanning for malware signatures and file changes
- Detection of suspicious login attempts and brute-force activity
- Alerts for anomalies that suggest a compromised account or plugin
- Practical recommendations instead of raw, noisy logs
The point is not to flood your inbox with alerts. The point is to have someone watching those alerts who knows your site and can triage them on your behalf.
3. Firewall, WAF rules, and bot filtering
Modern attacks do not always look like a traditional “hack”. They often show up as:
- Aggressive scraping and credential stuffing
- Targeted bot traffic from specific regions or networks
- Exploit attempts against known WordPress and PHP vulnerabilities
We tune firewall and WAF rules to match the reality of your traffic, not a generic template. That includes:
- Baseline firewall and bot filtering rules on all plans
- Expanded WAF rules and rate limiting on Standard and Pro
- Ongoing adjustments as new patterns show up in your logs
When combined with our managed hosting stack, this becomes a powerful part of your overall resilience strategy.
4. Uptime, SSL, and backup verification
Security is not just about blocking attacks; it is also about being ready when something goes wrong.
As part of this service, we:
- Monitor uptime and basic response health for your site
- Watch for SSL certificate issues before they become outages
- Verify that backups are actually completing successfully
- Keep an eye on storage and bandwidth usage trends
You should not have to notice an outage before someone else does. Our monitoring is aimed at giving you earlier, quieter warnings and a clearer path to resolution.
5. Clear communication when something changes
Security work is often invisible. To keep you in the loop without overwhelming you, we focus on:
- Simple explanations of what we are seeing and why it matters
- Clear, prioritized recommendations instead of jargon-heavy reports
- Regular summaries so leadership can understand risk at a glance
Standard plans include a quarterly security and risk summary. Pro plans go further with executive-ready summaries twice per year and closer coordination with your leadership or IT teams.
How our security process works
We follow a predictable, repeatable process so you always know what comes next.
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Discovery and baseline review
We start with a structured review of your current hosting, WordPress configuration, plugins, and themes. If there is an active incident, we address that first. -
Hardening and stabilization
We apply best-practice changes, adjust your firewall and WAF rules, and make sure backups and recovery paths are in place. -
Monitoring configuration
We turn on the right mix of malware scanning, intrusion detection, uptime checks, and SSL monitoring for your specific setup. -
Ongoing watch and response
We monitor alerts, investigate anything suspicious, and respond according to your plan level. You hear from us when there is a real issue or a meaningful change in your risk profile. -
Regular review and adjustment
As your site, stack, or business changes, we revisit rules, thresholds, and tooling so your security posture keeps up.
How the plans differ
All three plans are built from the same core approach. The differences come down to how critical your site is and how much coordination you need.
- Essential – For smaller, but still important marketing sites. You get solid hardening, real-time monitoring, and verification that backups and essentials are in place.
- Standard – For teams that depend on their site for leads, sales, or daily operations. You get more proactive patching, broader WAF coverage, uptime and SSL monitoring, and faster response times.
- Pro – For higher-risk profiles, heavier traffic, or organizations with compliance and reporting needs. You get advanced WAF and rate limiting, deeper bot and abuse mitigation, coordinated incident response guidance, and executive-ready summaries.
If you are unsure where to start, most teams that already feel the pain of an outage or security incident are a good fit for Standard, with room to move to Pro as stakes and complexity increase.
How this service fits with hosting and support
Security is strongest when it is not operating in a vacuum.
Many clients combine this service with:
- WordPress Hosting – So we can control and tune the full stack your site runs on.
- Ongoing Website Support – So routine changes, feature work, and security posture all move together instead of pulling in different directions.
In those cases, you are not just buying a security add-on. You are consolidating responsibility for hosting, maintenance, and security with one accountable partner.
Who this is for
Website Security & Monitoring is a good fit if:
- Your website is important enough that an incident would be painful or embarrassing
- You do not have a dedicated security or DevOps team watching WordPress
- You are responsible for the site but do not want to live in server logs and security dashboards
- You want one partner accountable for both prevention and response
- You are ready to move beyond “set it and forget it” plugins and occasional one-off fixes
If your site already feels like it is “too important to just hope nothing happens,” this service is designed for you.
If your site is already compromised
If you are coming to us because something is clearly wrong, we start there.
We treat cleanup and stabilization as a focused project, separate from the ongoing monthly plan:
- Identify and remove malware or malicious changes where possible
- Close obvious gaps that allowed the incident in the first place
- Validate that the site is stable and running correctly again
- Document what we found in plain language
From there, we move into an ongoing plan so you are not back where you started in a few months.
If you are ready to stop worrying about what might be happening behind the scenes on your WordPress site, Website Security & Monitoring gives you a quieter, more predictable baseline — and a team that already knows what to do when something changes.