Today's question comes from Gaynete, who asks about the time my website got hacked. What did I learn from getting the site hacked? What would I do differently to prevent future attacks?

I share the 11 things I learned from the DDOS attack that will help you prevent your site from getting hacked—or help you recover if a site hack happens to you.

The plugins I discuss for limiting logins are Limit Login Attempts (https://wordpress.org/plugins/limit-login-attempts/) and Wordfence (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/). The password managers I mention are 1Password (https://agilebits.com/onepassword) and LastPass (https://lastpass.com/). The hosting companies I recommend are Linode (https://www.linode.com/) and Bluehost (http://askpat.com/bluehost). Two other service I recommend are Sucuri (https://sucuri.net/) and Cloudflare (https://www.cloudflare.com/).

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