WordPress Security Half Moon Bay, CA

WordPress Security experts, over 10 years experience.
We can help you secure your WordPress installation.

Do you need WordPress Security?

We have services for Half Moon Bay based website owners offering WordPress Security to individuals, small businesses, medium size businesses, and large corporations. WordPress has a huge target on it's back so to speak. With over 40% of the web using WordPress as it's backend, hackers are constantly looking to exploit vulnerable plugins, or weak passwords. The most important part of creating a secure online presence in Half Moon Bay California is making sure your website has the highest levels of security, as well as maintaining security updates.

We provide comprehensive WordPress Security solutions, to help ensure your WordPress website always up to date, secure and safe. Our Half Moon Bay team members have expertise in web hosting, malware protection, vulnerability scanning and malware removal.

Security is not just set it and forget it, you need to make sure everything is up to date with latest security patches. This is where maintenance comes into play and one of our primary services/focuses.

Our Half Moon Bay CA Maintenance Plans Include

WordPress Hardening

Industry standard WordPress hardening and our special security features as a bonus.

Automated Backups

Setup an automated backup system for a fail safe version of your WordPress installation.

Keep Up-To-Date

Monthly WordPress core and Plugin updates, with human inspection afterwards.

24/7 Monitoring

Up time monitoring that notifies our team to detect any server issues.

Frequently Asked Questions

WordPress Security Services in Half Moon Bay California

Our Half Moon Bay security team has a checklist of WordPress hardening standards for out of the box WordPress installations.

  • Limiting Login Attempts and renaming the default login location
  • Enforcing Strong Admin Passwords
  • Giving a nice name to admin users (to avoid disclosure of usernames for logins)
  • Disabling User enumeration via WordPress's API as well as author ugly permalinks. aka ?author=1

More advanced security that isn't part of our Half Moon Bay, California WordPress Security basic package includes:

  • Renaming wp-content to custom name to protect against lazy scanners, as well as avoid being Google Dorked
    (people scanning Google for default WordPress paths for known vulnerable plugins)
  • Custom WordPress Firewall Rules
  • Security Monitoring and active responses
  • Monthly maintenance of keeping everything up to date

Yes our Half Moon Bay, California team offers WordPress malware clean up. It generally takes 24-48 hours for our team to assess and clean up your WordPress website. Then we monitor it for the next couple days to ensure no malicious files get regenerated. In rare cases when your hosting account doesn't have root access and the server has been infected on a root level, we might recommend you switch servers.

The internet is a vulnerable and insecure place, there is never a guarantee that your website won't be compromised at some point in time. Even big companies that have very intelligent cyber security professionals get compromised from time to time. Our service is for mitigating risk by keeping your site up to date with "known" patches. As well as implementing best security practices to minimize your risk. With our monthly security plan if in the rare case your site does get infected with malware we will remove it for free! (with the stipulation that you are following our recommended strong password policy)

With our Half Moon Bay, California team the initial setup takes 24 hours, which includes creating a back up system on your server (where applicable), updating WordPress Core, WordPress Plugins and WordPress Themes. Afterwards we look over the website manually to ensure nothing has broken. Moving forward updates and inspection is done routinely on a monthly basis.

City of Half Moon Bay, California
Source: wikipedia

Half Moon Bay is a coastal city in San Mateo County, California, United States, approximately 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of San Francisco. Its population was 11,795 as of the 2020 census. Immediately north of Half Moon Bay is Pillar Point Harbor and the unincorporated community of Princeton-by-the-Sea. Half Moon Bay is known for Mavericks, a big-wave surf location. It is called Half Moon Bay because of its crescent shape. Originally an agricultural outpost to Mission San Francisco de Asís, the town was founded in the 1840s first as San Benito, and then as its Anglo fishing community grew, it was renamed Spanishtown. In 1874, it was again renamed Half Moon Bay. After rail and road connections in the early 1900s, the town grew. The foggy weather of the coast made the town a popular destination for booze-running during Prohibition. The city's infrastructure is heavily integrated with the coast, including the Pillar Point Harbor, major roads, and the fire department. The economy of Half Moon Bay is dominated by a handful of businesses, the biggest of which is the Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay which employs 500 people and is a major source of property tax and tourism income for the city. Because of this geography, a 2022 study found that the city had over 123 buildings vulnerable to sea level rise.