WordPress DDoS protection that actually works.

WordPress is the most attacked CMS on the internet, not because it's insecure but because it powers 40% of the web — so it's the most profitable target for automated attack tools. The two most common patterns are volumetric DDoS attacks (junk traffic flooding your server) and credential brute-forcing against wp-login.php and xmlrpc.php. Both can knock a small business site offline for hours and rack up serious bandwidth bills.

The honest truth is that most hosts' included "DDoS protection" handles small attacks and fails against anything serious. Layer 7 attacks — requests that look like real browser traffic hitting expensive URLs — bypass host-level filters because the traffic is technically valid. The fix is to put proper protection in front of your origin at the edge, where attacks are absorbed by a network with terabits of capacity before they ever reach your server.

Cloudflare is the standard answer and it's effective even on the free plan. We move your DNS to Cloudflare, lock down the origin so traffic can only reach your server through Cloudflare (preventing attackers from finding and hitting the origin IP directly), enable the managed WAF ruleset that catches OWASP Top 10 attacks and known WordPress exploits, and add specific rules for the WordPress attack patterns that come up most: wp-login brute force, xmlrpc abuse, comment spam, REST API enumeration, content scraping.

We also set up rate limiting so any single IP that tries too many requests too fast gets challenged or blocked — without affecting legitimate visitors who never hit those limits. Bot management filters automated traffic intelligently using behaviour signals, not just user-agent strings. The result is a site that stays up during attacks, has dramatically lower server load, and costs nothing to maintain afterwards.