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Fail2ban for WordPress on DigitalOcean

Fail2ban is an open source security utility, which scans log files for certain patterns and bans IPs when malicious activity is encountered. This could be used to protect WordPress from bruteforce attacks, pingback attacks and more. In this tutorial we’ll look at installing fail2ban on a DigitalOcean server and configuring it to secure WordPress.