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I haven’t used Wordpress in forever, but I stopped because it was always getting fucking hacked. Hopefully, someone can help you make sure it’s secure.

Aaron said:

So, should I just go to Wordpress.com and get the Personal or Premium plans and just go with that? Is that just the easy way and say fuck it?

/pricing

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No, wordpress is free (Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS - WordPress.org). On the .com they're just upselling you on hosting. Get hosting somewhere and they'll probably have a wordpress one-click install, and they probably auto-update for you too.

Not an endorsement, but here's an example. I googled "low end shared hosting plan":
Only one I'm familiar with from the first reply:


It's probably shitty hosting, but you only need shitty hosting.

WP has plugins and tutorials to do pretty much anything. Just google "how to secure wordpress" for example. I don't think the hacking thing is much of a concern though, just make sure to have your content backed up. I've had a bunch of wp sites over the years, have done basically zero maintenance on them, and have had one or two hacked ever. I mean, I'm no wp shill. It definitely has it's downsides, but imo it's the easiest way to get started if you want to control your content.

I have some work computers that I need to have some level of Virus Protection on. Every piece of anti-virus software (Mcaffee, Kapersky) has turned into a virus themselves and ruined my machines that were running it.

Does a free, unobtrusive solution exist? Should I just use Windows Security?

Fight said:

I have some work computers that I need to have some level of Virus Protection on. Every piece of anti-virus software (Mcaffee, Kapersky) has turned into a virus themselves and ruined my machines that were running it.

Does a free, unobtrusive solution exist? Should I just use Windows Security?

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Windows defender is fine for most small business applications. It really depends on your IT footprint and exposure. Especially if you're not letting people browse the web or install their own applications.

Thanks. This is very small business, but the employees will definitely "browse the web" when the boss isn't looking. I will probably just ratchet the restrictive settings up to max and put parental controls on it as well.

Fight said:

Thanks. This is very small business, but the employees will definitely "browse the web" when the boss isn't looking. I will probably just ratchet the restrictive settings up to max and put parental controls on it as well.

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Honestly your best solution is going to be a good all in one firewall/content filtering solution, and load chrome or brave with script blocking and all that. If you have business fiber or cable, some ISPs include pretty decent out of the box security stuff.

Also really depends on what data you're keeping and if you care. If you just don't want to have to wipe a laptop but it has nothing important in it, that's one thing. If your employees are being stupid and storing PII and credit card numbers in OneNote, you've got a different level of risk.

Chrome will be our browser that operates the Management system, which is apart of a franchise. They have encryption for Credit Cards, ext through that.

For Chrome extensions, I have:
-AdBlock
-uBlock Origin
-CyberPurify

Any other crucial extensions you recommend?

If you really want to be a hero, build your own Opensense/PiHole server so the boss can have you do shit like on-the-fly blocking network-wide access to Facebook, Tik Tok, etc.

Gimp just released its 3.0 version with non- destructive effects, worth the update if you're using it.