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Originally Posted by Shoplifter
All of this. The moment you install Wordpress you are going to have everyone in the world trying to exploit it. Whatever real traffic you have you can figure at least twice more will be bots and brute force trying to get in. Wordpress is a magnet for trouble.
Securing Wordpress can cut your CPU/resource use way down and improve the load times on the site
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I've seen a huge increase in hits from bots looking for WP exploits recently (on sites that have never even been on WP) but many of them come from Amazon AWS IP ranges which can be blocked in htaccess if you know what they are.