DMA launches Advanced Security – enterprise security for managed WordPress customers

July 2026, the bots keep coming!

Since the beginning of this year, we have witnessed an unprecedented growth in bot traffic hitting our Managed WordPress hosting environment. We are not alone; industry-wide, the amount of nefarious traffic accessing websites has exploded.

Last week we announced we were running our monthly maintenance, weekly so that our patching of WordPress and installed plugins is more regular. Today, we have all the details on our new Advanced Security add-on.

We are utilising enterprise tools from CloudFlare to filter all traffic before it enters our network. Traffic that fails the test will simply be dropped before it reaches our WordPress infrastructure.

In these times we now believe that exposing logins URL to the entire internet is not sustainable. We now take the approach that access to the WordPress admin dashboard should be locked down to specific countries. Most of our customers work and focus on Australia so we’re now able to block all attempts to login other than those originating locally. Obviously there are exceptions to this and we can configure an individual site to allow login access from other specific countries (think: we have an office in Singapore, or a remote worker in the Philippines).

What about other traffic to your website? Once again for local businesses, do you really need to have someone from Russia being able to access your website? In many cases the answer is no. With this new tool set we are able to block entire countries, or even continents from accessing your site. However we recommend a more measured approach. Traffic locally (think Australia or New Zealand) can access a site without challenge. Other traffic can be challenged. Mostly this is transparent to the human user, but bots can be blocked, again before the traffic enters our WordPress network.

We’re able to customise this for each client to accommodate individual business requirements. Do lots of business with people in Hong Kong? – no problem we can customise rules accordingly.

View the Advanced Security Product brief here.

Chat to our team about additional security for your website.