Changing Autoresponder and Improving Security

Changing Autoresponder
Due to lack of activity in keeping my blogs up to date and completing various projects I have decided to cancel my Aweber subscription.

This obviously has effected my optin box which was in the side column but I am now trying out Mail Chimp and will install an alternative box during this week.

Mail Chimp is free for up to 2,000 subscribers and 12,000 email sends which is more than enough to get started but hope it is reliable and gets the emails through when the time comes.

Security
I have been worried for some time about the security of my WordPress run Amazon sites as many of the established sites have been reported to have been hacked and the earnings diverted to other accounts.

For peace of mind I have purchased and installed on one of my sites a plugin called WP Lockup.  This is an easy to install plugin but the downside for many could be the extra time taken to access the website dashboard for maintenance due to the level of security.

WP Lockup has four levels of security including masking the /wp-admin, Google Captcha, extra username/password stage plus re-naming the database code so it is extremely important to keep an accurate record of all the information as not all of it is retrievable if lost.

An email is sent if five attempts are made to hack your site.

WP Lockup is not something you see whilst working but hope it is working in the background to beat 99% of the hackers. A single licence is included with the basic offer but I opted for the developers licence allowing for up to 100 sites, which should keep me going for a long time.

The following video shows how to install WP Lockup and also clearly explains all the features much better than I have done above.

I am not sure about the cost as this was a Warrior Special (WSO) and for developers licence I paid $27 but it was possible to purchase for single or 10 installations.

Mike